Originally Posted by
Cadd
Are you serious? When you're driving, and want to switch lanes, what do you do? I personally check my rear view for a split second, then my side mirror then a quick head check for blind spot.
EVERYONE who drives should do this. I see morons on the road who just check their side mirrors and cut over, not realizing that there's another car right next to them, in their blind spots. That's how accidents happen.
I'm just curious, other drivers out there, do you check your blind spots?
I said I wouldn't usually check when moving from one part of a lane to another part of the same lane, not when switching lanes entirely. And actually, it might have been more dangerous for the motorist to take his eyes off the road in front of him (even for a second or two) just to check a blind spot in a lane he was already occupying.
I concede that this would be the motorist's fault if he had just passed the cyclist. But a cyclist that is trying to squeeze by a slower moving car in the same lane as that slower moving car is riding dangerously.
The more I read about this, the more I think that, at best for the cyclist, this is a case of an accident almost caused by two stupid, oblivious, pigheaded people. Neither the motorist nor the cyclist has the right to be indignant. They should have both apologized and moved on, being embarrassed by what their own stupidity could have caused.