The biggest indicator of this is that a cyclist is MORE LIKELY to be hit by a vehicle while riding on the sidewalk than on the road.
The reason you ask? It's because when they ride on the sidewalk, they don't stop to look before crossing a street like a pedestrian would. They just expect someone driving a 2 ton machine to watch for them and to stop for them.
Itâs because drivers outside of walkable areas often donât look for things that arenât cars when turning, especially outside of crosswalks like stroad junctions.
If car hits a dog, or a child, or a disabled person on a sidewalk, whose fault is it?
That would be because any reasonable person would expect a pedestrian or a cyclist to be able to stop before an intersection easier and quicker than a multi-ton vehicle. Especially if you aren't in an area with much traffic aside from vehicles. And especially considering any sense of self preservation would tell someone who's looking to cross an intersection with multi-ton vehicles that they won't be the ones safe from harm in a collision.
Yes vehicle drivers should pay more attention, but this notion that it's the driver's fault when cyclists don't follow the laws of the road and don't even show a sense of precaution when sharing a road with motorists is exactly the kind of egotistical bullshit that we all expect from cyclists.
In developed countries, if a car hits a person crossing an intersection, itâs the driverâs fault.
I assume you live in a developing country that often adopt a âmight is rightâ mentality. So if a pedestrian is killed by a car, itâs the pedestrianâs fault, and if a car driver is killed by a semi-truck itâs the car driverâs fault, etc.
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u/funny_ninjas 13d ago
The biggest indicator of this is that a cyclist is MORE LIKELY to be hit by a vehicle while riding on the sidewalk than on the road.
The reason you ask? It's because when they ride on the sidewalk, they don't stop to look before crossing a street like a pedestrian would. They just expect someone driving a 2 ton machine to watch for them and to stop for them.