Bike Vs Truck Hit & Run - not good

Agree’d

Shit situation all round. Wish the best to all involved.

there’s a thread from a couple of years ago somewhere on the forum, where a guy got run down by a garbage truck in the city. he had some insane scar tissue, as in a large percentage of his body. truck didn’t see him either. it sucks, but the streets just aren’t set up for perfect co-habitation,and sometimes the balance between caution and hustle goes awry.

I had a guy die in front of my last place from a garbage truck.
It was heavy, i had to leave my gate every day and look at the marks and flowers.
The driver will live with that for the rest of his day’s.
Even if negligent that’s some thing i don’t wish upon anyone.

I regularly rode with truck drivers through the Melbourne CBD when I used to put up marquees. You’re right it is stressful and most of the time it was the car drivers stressing them out by cutting into their safe braking gap and pissing them off; to their credit they wouldn’t get too mad. The worst was trying to back the trucks into a tight gap while 3 lanes of angry traffic are bearing down on you. Still this country makes it far too easy to get away with murder when you are behind the wheel of a vehicle. This needs to change and our attitudes around leaving safe gaps will surely follow.

Yeah too true, I think they whole way we look at transport needs a shake up,
From the ground up.
Bandaid patches in laws don’t change the way we operate as a traveling society.
I won’t get you started on that though :wink:

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kinda like the parramatta rd tollway concept

^^ London gave it a red hot dip…City of London Pedway Scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My thoughts go out to all involved, I hope he has a stable recovery.

I personally found this to be as difficult to stomach as the accident details:

‘The real issue is with construction vehicles,’’ Mr Brennan said. ‘‘On large construction jobs there needs to be a traffic management plan where drivers are told to be aware of cyclists’ presence.

“A traffic Management plan” ie. tell truck drivers to keep an eye out for cyclists from their vehicles that have massive blind spots.

Bike Lanes. Not peak hour bike lanes, just the straight forward kind that are there all the time. I realise it’s not that simple, but complexity is reason enough to deem band aid ‘solutions’ inadequate. As a simple temporary solve, I would settle for the double decked solution above.

had visions of this this morning when a stationary truck decided for fuck-knows-what reason to start moving left into the bike lane as i was going past. needless to say i just about shit my pants.

It’s nice to know that in a survival situation, rather than do anything to help you, your body performs an utterly usless self-evacuation.

I used to have a lot of close calls with the rear wheels of trucks on Hyde street heading north from Yarraville, I can easily see how someone could get caught up in them, and f*ck, what a way to go out. The worst area with the most potential is coming off Shepherd’s Bridge turning left (heading south) from the bike path to the road. The trucks cut that corner and the trailer goes right over the bike lane. I used think the white line painted on the road asserted my rights, but that is the wrong mentality, and could be deadly.

Any updates on Daniel? I do hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.

Someone gets it… Everything and everyone on the road is trying their best to kill you. More people need to think like this.