This week the top gear team made their own irreverent style cycling safety videos, the trouble was they actually got some of it right, despite the fact it was meant as a mickey take.
You see many of the point they made were valid, lots of cycling accidents are caused by the cyclists themselves jumping red lights, having bikes in poor condition (bad brakes etc) but by far the biggest cause isn't car drives at all, it's the heavy vehicles, buses and lorries.
The fact is bus and lorry drivers simply don't care about other road uses (well a lot of them anyway) they are safe and insulated in big heavy vehicles, unless they hit another bus or lorry in most cases the other poor sods come off far worse in a collision.
Lorries are particularly bad they just pull out of junctions, roundabouts etc without a care, they know they have the weight and other motorists have no choice but to give way, even if they get hit they suffer little damage or injury.
The poor cyclist has no chance against these, I myself was run off the road some years back while cycling by a lorry being driven like a madman through a narrow country lane, insane! if I hadn't gone off road I'd be dead, there was no way he could stop, and he made no attempt to stop or slow down anyway, God help if it had been a car going the other way, they would have nowhere to go.
If the govenment really want to cut down cycling deaths maybe they should take a good look and buses and lorries, clamp down hard on bad driving, unmarked police on bikes filming what they do and car back-up should work. .
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