legal liability?

[nexus]

@b0rken

I’m curious as to why drivers feel entitled to tool around at a hair under 50 or 60 simply because it’s the posted limit - oblivious to the fact that they’re in a built-up area, with prams, pedestrians and so on. They wouldn’t drive in a fog at that speed, because they can’t see that far ahead. If this particular activity, driving at speed, was as great a risk to them physically as it was to anyone else they should happen to collide with, regardless of fault, would they still do it?

Yes, because Australian drivers are ignorant cretins. They speed, drink, use mobiles, run lights and don’t give way. In Australia, getting killed in a car accident still ranks up in the top 20 alongside the nasty stuff.

[el_Brado]

@nexus

In Australia, getting killed in a car accident still ranks up in the top 20 alongside the nasty stuff.

17th in 2006

4/5 of the way down.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

[snowflake]

@nexus

Australian drivers are ignorant cretins.

That’s all there is to it. There is no cure.

[shortsie]

That’s all there is to it. There is no cure.

only Zuel

[Captain_Commuter]

@george

were you the bloke who brought his carbon Guru into Bike Now - must have been a year or two ago…all the pieces in a green garbage bag?

Nope, mine was just snapped in half clean through at the biddon cage on the down tube and near the headset on the top tube. Not in pieces. I was lucky and didn’t even get a scratch. Just did a forward flip straight over the roof/rear window and landed on my back.

uh-huh - the bloke I met t-boned a car on his brand new guru - the frame exploded on impact - wasn’t a piece more than about a foot long, scary shards of carbon fibre all over. Nasty.