Callous trucker crunches bicycle

I’ll concede that the truck driver made an illegal lane change but was it because he couldn’t properly guess the bikes speeds because they were moving so dangerously slow? Unlike the other motorists, the bicyclist had no mirrors.

Bicycles have no business on roadways moving that fast. They can use the shoulder but not the roadway itself if their speed causes danger.

 

They call them militant cyclists there.

 

I dang near killed an entire herd of them a few years back in my POV. I live on an extremely narrow and windy county road in the middle of BFE Texas. I don't give two ####s if it's legal.

I came around a corner doing about 25mph, and there was a dozen of these morons spread across both lanes of traffic... Not doing 25.

Darwin would be proud.

 

Ok so here is what you were looking at. A left exit on a surface street, not a highway but a surface street. Do to the design those Cyclists did not have bike lane. The truck (european cabover) passed using the shoulder. Completely at fault, with total disregard for safety, entering that curve. Pretty much same thing 4 wheelers do to trucks that is bellyached on these forums.... So for those of you that want to blame the cyclists, now you have the 4 wheeler point of view, don'cha

 

My view is this. The trucker is at fault. No two ways about it and deserves whatever is thrown at him. That said the biker is also an idiot rideing a vehicle that small, that poorly marked and moving that slow on a roadway with vehicles that big, and going that #### fast. While the biker legally speaking did absolutely nothing wrong and had every right to be there. That doesnt mean he was SMART to be there but again he legally did nothing wrong.

This whole bikes vs cars and trucks thing has been a thing since my DAD was still in diapers and will likely be a thing when my great grandkids are dead and gone. Its an issue with an entitled moronic snob, an idiot wheel holder mill grad, lack of proper infrastructure design to handle these bikes safely and lack of punishment for poor driving and outdated laws. So if you want to be mad at anyone here be mad at the city planners and lawmakers for allowing this type of situation and ya know....maybe actully get off your ### and send a letter to them, go talk to them and in general go do something to make sure this #### doesnt happen. #####ing at these two helps no one and leaves the door open for some goody twowallet law maker to see dollar bills laying unclaimed on the ground and pass more moronic laws that we will ALL hate.

 

Well said

 

That wasn’t in the U.S.
1-signs were different.
2-cabover truck.
That may have been in Europe-possibly France,Spain or Germany,etc.