• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 hours ago

    Look at the picture in the article and read the story. The biker was trying to ride past the ambulance near the curb as the ambulance was turning.

    The biker felt entitled to do whatever he wanted instead of waiting his turn and got himself ran over.

    • limelight79@lemm.ee
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      50 minutes ago

      It’s called a right-hook. Cars pass bicycles, then turn right immediately in front of them, causing the cyclist to hit the car. Quite a few cyclists have been killed this way.

      Car brain drivers then blame the cyclist.

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        35 minutes ago

        To be fair, almost no drivers are taught to look in their right hand mirror for cyclists or pedestrians when turning right. Their focus is usually on the oncoming traffic lane. We need to address things like this and train drivers better rather than expect drivers to clue in themselves.

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          7 minutes ago

          Yep. And even though I’m also a cyclist, I’ve almost made the same mistake while driving.

          It’s really an issue of the traffic design. For example, we tend to slap bike lanes just to the right of traffic lanes and hope it all works out fine. And it is fine…until intersections where cars might be turning…

    • bobo@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      You mean the part of the article where it says the ambulance “turned into him”?

      You’re making assumptions based on vague wording in the article and your preconceived notions of cyclist behavior. You don’t actually know what happened.