Right hooked her. Ran over her. She's dead.
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Right hooked her. Ran over her. She's dead.
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Not a lot of information to go on.
Trucks are bad news. And, simply stopping next to one that is turning is not sufficient to keep safe as the rear wheels don't follow the front wheels.
This accident apparently happened mid-block which is less predictable than at intersections.
Trucks are bad news. And, simply stopping next to one that is turning is not sufficient to keep safe as the rear wheels don't follow the front wheels.
This accident apparently happened mid-block which is less predictable than at intersections.
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terrible.
all lives are equal, but maybe the fact that she's a diplomat / state department employee will result in charges and prosecution for the driver, and more attention to bicycle safety.
all lives are equal, but maybe the fact that she's a diplomat / state department employee will result in charges and prosecution for the driver, and more attention to bicycle safety.
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When her case comes up in court, the judge should throw the book at the truck driver, as a warning to all.
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I wonder if "failure to yield right of way" is a citable offense in MD. ?
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Not a lot of information to go on.
Trucks are bad news. And, simply stopping next to one that is turning is not sufficient to keep safe as the rear wheels don't follow the front wheels.
This accident apparently happened mid-block which is less predictable than at intersections.
Trucks are bad news. And, simply stopping next to one that is turning is not sufficient to keep safe as the rear wheels don't follow the front wheels.
This accident apparently happened mid-block which is less predictable than at intersections.
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Driving, or riding a bike, I always give the trucks a lot of space. Most truck drivers hate it when drivers do stupid things around a big rig.
One thing I'd like to see would be a lot more flashing lights when the truck is doing a right hand turn. Make it absolutely unmistakable that the vehicle is turning.
As far as the report above, I can't tell if it is a tractor-trailer, or a single flatbed. Both are deadly, but the tractor-trailer cuts the corner much more than the shorter vehicles. But, they also usually swing wide when approaching a corner if possible.
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The most likely scenario is the truck slowed to make a wide turn, then cyclist caught up and entered the **** zone.
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Doesn't sound like an accident to me. Someone is negligent or careless.
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I think the truck driver likely turned without even considering the possibility that a cyclist would come up on their right side. Even though they almost certainly passed the cyclist moments before.
I’d bet the truck driver will say “I didn’t see them “ and nothing will happen. Unless of course the driver was under the influence at the time.
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That does nothing to prevent crashes with turning motor vehicles, because there has to be a gap in the barrier at every turning opportunity
Actually, a barrier may make such crashes more likely, because it tends to cause both the cyclists and the drivers to ignore each other as irrelevant, when in reality the possibility of turns means they're still part of the same interacting traffic flow and need to be paying constant attention to each other.
Actually, a barrier may make such crashes more likely, because it tends to cause both the cyclists and the drivers to ignore each other as irrelevant, when in reality the possibility of turns means they're still part of the same interacting traffic flow and need to be paying constant attention to each other.
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That does nothing to prevent crashes with turning motor vehicles, because there has to be a gap in the barrier at every turning opportunity
Actually, a barrier may make such crashes more likely, because it tends to cause both the cyclists and the drivers to ignore each other as irrelevant, when in reality the possibility of turns means they're still part of the same interacting traffic flow and need to be paying constant attention to each other.
Actually, a barrier may make such crashes more likely, because it tends to cause both the cyclists and the drivers to ignore each other as irrelevant, when in reality the possibility of turns means they're still part of the same interacting traffic flow and need to be paying constant attention to each other.
The only gap is where the pedestrian crosswalk is AND we hope the motorist is smart enough NOT to drive on the pedestrian crosswalk when there are clearly marked barriers guiding the motorist how to do the wide turn.
If motorists still do that, well you just can't legislate stupid because those are the same drivers who go through Do Not Enter signs and get their vehicles stuck in the TTC tunnels.
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Try actually looking at the picture of where this happened.
Your proposed barrier would have to have nearly as much percentage of gap for each commercial driveway, as it could barrier.
And each of those gaps is a deathtrap, if the users on the two sides of the fence cease thinking of each other as cooperating in use of the same road.
Your proposed barrier would have to have nearly as much percentage of gap for each commercial driveway, as it could barrier.
And each of those gaps is a deathtrap, if the users on the two sides of the fence cease thinking of each other as cooperating in use of the same road.
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This is, in part, why I always ride with a mirror. Right Hooks are one of my most common threats on the road, especially the roads that have countless entrance points to so freakin' many shopping centers -- and a speed limit of 45-mph, but we all know they're going at least 55.
I can't count how many times I've had to take quick action to prevent a Right Hook on these roads.
I don't want to sound like I'm victim-blaming. We just don't know the circumstances and even though I'm good at avoiding RHs, I very well know that this is probably they one way I'll get it one day. They can be very tricky to avoid in some circumstances. Not only do less and less people use turn signals nowadays, but you can be on some roads where you can't hear someone slowing down, because the speed is such that they don't -- a lot of people like taking turns at the fastest possible speed, from what I have seen.
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I can't count how many times I've had to take quick action to prevent a Right Hook on these roads.
I don't want to sound like I'm victim-blaming. We just don't know the circumstances and even though I'm good at avoiding RHs, I very well know that this is probably they one way I'll get it one day. They can be very tricky to avoid in some circumstances. Not only do less and less people use turn signals nowadays, but you can be on some roads where you can't hear someone slowing down, because the speed is such that they don't -- a lot of people like taking turns at the fastest possible speed, from what I have seen.
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This does sound likely. It’s possible the truck was large enough the cyclist was beside it when it slowed and signaled a a turn and the cyclist had no real opportunity to even see a turn signal, if used.
I think the truck driver likely turned without even considering the possibility that a cyclist would come up on their right side. Even though they almost certainly passed the cyclist moments before.
I’d bet the truck driver will say “I didn’t see them “ and nothing will happen. Unless of course the driver was under the influence at the time.
I think the truck driver likely turned without even considering the possibility that a cyclist would come up on their right side. Even though they almost certainly passed the cyclist moments before.
I’d bet the truck driver will say “I didn’t see them “ and nothing will happen. Unless of course the driver was under the influence at the time.
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This can easily confuse cyclists - even adults can misread it, but it's especially an issue for children just starting to experience the world alone, but not yet having personal experience of driving, or in a place like NYC you also have adults who've never driven. It's also tied in with ones degree of modeling what others are going to do - plenty of right angle path intersections where one needs to swing wide on a bike too, so the concept isn't foreign, just the thought that it could be what is happening in front of you.
I suspect it's also yet to be determined if the turn signal was on, and how visible it is if one is already beside. "Yet to be determined" means exactly that - we don't know.
But Paul does have a point - these types of things often have a number of additional clues which an aware and experienced cyclist is far more likely to pick up on, than a less experienced cyclist is.
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We just don't know enough, at this point, to assign responsibility.
I agree with most of you that some variant of the first scenario seems the most likely, given the experience of the rider as described in the linked article. But, we can all make mistakes. Once I, personally, pulled out right in front of an oncoming car that I just didn't notice (fatigue? lack of contrast (light colored car/light colored roadway/light colored sky)? simple inattention? other? I'm still not sure) and just caught motion out of the corner of my eye and turned my bars just in time to avoid being flattened. Completely my fault, and I've ridden tens of thousands of miles over decades.
A knee-jerk reaction ("Burn the witch!! Burn her!!") is not productive at this point.
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The truck ran her over. Of course its his fault/responsibility even if she was being negligent. Its like if a pedestrian is doing something moronic its still your if you hit them on your bicycle.
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It comes down to a question of does the cyclist have right of way on a marked bike lane and does the driver of the truck have a responsibility to yield to cycling traffic in that lane. There is no stop sign for cyclists as far as I can tell, so there is no expectation for cyclists to be stopping and yielding to turning traffic. I can I would suspect the answer is going to be yes, the truck driver has a responsibility to yield, which he did not do. Question is will the police cite him for failure to yield, which I suspect they won't do.
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Correction: Third video in link is crash scene of totally different accident in DC, which is a little SE of Bethesda.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/l...d-c3142bc1fd83
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...when I lived in that area, River Road in Bethesda was one of many streets I did not have the courage to ride on.
Speed limits used to be 45 mph, which was just too fast for me riding along with cars whizzing past.
But when I Googled it just now, it looks like the residents insisted that the speed limit be dropped to 35. Didn't help much in this instance.
...when I lived in that area, River Road in Bethesda was one of many streets I did not have the courage to ride on.
Speed limits used to be 45 mph, which was just too fast for me riding along with cars whizzing past.
But when I Googled it just now, it looks like the residents insisted that the speed limit be dropped to 35. Didn't help much in this instance.
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This link has a video of the actual crash scene, I thought it was a much different scene. Also there are two videos on the link that are difficult to listen to -- much sympathy.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/l...d-c3142bc1fd83
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https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/l...d-c3142bc1fd83
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