I was a keen cyclist and had a few spills. I avoided a car hitting me on a roundabout but ended up going through a privet hedge across a garden and into the side of someone's car (small scuff). I got a summons from HMP for speeding at 43 in a 30, dismissed. I learnt to fly when someone pulled out in front of me a few times.
During my following biking years I had "three learn to flies" due to others not seeing me (fair to say I was at some speed but not stupid) but the level of damage was a up several pegs. Cause and effect are both significantly greater?
In my motoring career I have had a couple and most were down to a surprise event I had not factored in, during my younger days. The outcome was always a lot more significant and costly. Fortunately never causing personal injury beyond a little shock and embarrassment.
You are right - by the time those took place I had learnt from my previous splashes so to that point it probably did have the right effect. My worry is mindset of the current generation coming onto the roads and their disposition to risk and entitlement. I watch it among the drivers in my area and the attitude I watch has me open mouthed with shock so often. Backing out of a side turn onto a main road without even looking to see the risk, pulling out in front of you at a junction and giving you the "bird" as they do it. If they have this sense of entitlement they need thick metal skin as well as the apparent thick mental skin they appear to have obtained through aggressive use of the keyboard and sochul medier.
Last edited by Alistair; 17/11/2303:07 PM.
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