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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bike, but please do not wear all black with no reflective gear or good/ prominent lighting on bike.
Same goes for people who walk in all black with no reflective gear and they just pop out  of nowhere. 
And it doesn’t  matter where the location is.[/quote]

People don't "pop out of nowhere", except in the perceptions of people who are driving too fast for the conditions. The faster you drive, the more your peripheral vision narrows. And you also need to drive more slowly at night.

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The same also applies to cyclists, who have longer breaking distance than cars going the same speed which means that they should be even more careful.[/quote]

Absolutely. Everybody (bicyclists and drivers) should limit their speeds to 12 mph or less at night.[/quote]
Except that cars have a shorter braking distance than bicycles. If bicycles cannot stop in time to avoid a collision then they were going too fast. Not the tree, parked car, pedestrian, or other road users.[/quote]

Waiting for the data about trees, parked cars, and pedestrians injured or killed by people bicycling too fast for conditions in the dark.[/quote]
I am not sure what data you need for you to understand basic principles like if you crash into an inanimate object because you cannot stop you are going too fast or if you hit someone or something else because you cannot stop in time, you are also going too fast. But you’re probably the same person who refuses to wear a reflective vest to increase safety. So you seem a bit thick.[/quote]

F = ma except for when it applies to bicyclists vs. drivers, because spandex, or something.[/quote]
The rule is that whatever a cyclist runs into it is that other things fault. Check how often they fault “bad infrastructure” for their unsafe behavior.[/quote]

If it were a rule, drivers would find a way to break it.[/quote]Cyclists already have.[/quote]

Bicyclists recently killed in the DC area include:

a 65-year-old grandfather in DC, when a construction truck turned right across his path
a 70-year-old man in DC, by a driver having a medical emergency (the driver also killed a pedestrian on the sidewalk)
a Chinese immigrant in Montgomery County, when a dump truck turned right across her path
a US diplomat in Montgomery County, when a flatbed truck turned right across her path
a US diplomat in DC when a concrete truck turned right across her path
a grandmother who used her bicycle for her ice-cream business, by a drunk driver
a 24-year-old in Fairfax, while she was in a crosswalk

So please take your bigotry and go crawl in a hole.[/quote]

I wish WABA did more to publicly document these deaths. We need an ongoing record of these accidents to push back against the nonsense that protected bike lanes aren’t needed and that the victims deserve the blame.[/quote]

I fail to see how passing a vehicle on the right while that vehicle is slowing down to make a right turn - and will make that turn within seconds - is anyone’s fault but the operator of the vehicle or bike doing the passing on the right.

There’s a reason passing on the right is prohibited in many places, although it’s not typically enforced. Because passing on the right leads to stuff like this.

It you’re in a car, and driving in what would normally be a parking lane right next to the curb - but at the moment is free of cars - and someone in a right travel lane is slowing and preparing to make a right turn - and you try and pass them and they turn into to you in the process - you’ll be charged. That’s why passing on the right isn’t allowed. Because it’s dangerous. [/quote]

You can discuss your opinions with the DOTs who build bike lanes and sidewalks to the right of drivers who are turning right.[/quote]

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