The judge concluded that the motorist’s actions, which saw him strike the cyclist from behind, were “at the lower end of carelessness” after his vision was “significantly obstructed” approaching the roundabout

The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.

I’m really not a fan of the cops arguing that the cyclist was partly to blame, though, and a €1000 fine is pretty damn low for breaking someone’s leg and wrecking a good six months of their life.

  • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
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    2 days ago

    A tree is too large? What about a trashcan then. A person who has passed out and fallen from the sidewalk onto the street? Whatever.

    A person wears a ghillie suit, and lies down next to the road, he is playing a game of extreme hide and seek with a few friends, well the game day just ended, and he stands up just as a car is 50 meters away, the speed limit is 50kmh, it is dusk, the driver of the car swerves to avoid potentially hitting the person, and hits a light pole on the other side of the road.

    If you need to build fantastical scenarios to justify your reasoning, maybe your position isn’t as valid as you think. Luckily we have rules and judges for this, someone jumping in front of your car is usually classified as insurance fraud or attempted suicide. If he was on a crosswalk, your fault for not slowing down accordingly.

    And anyway, at 50kmh, stopping the average car takes 14, 20 meters maximum, reaction time is 1s usually, let’s say you’re 90 years old and it takes you 2 seconds, you’ll start braking after 28 meters… So essentially in the worst case scenario you’ll maybe just touch the guy with your license plate.

    Which is totally beside the point by the way, because I was talking about YOUR OWN safety, forget about responsibility, imagine a sinkhole had opened on the road, if you fell in it wouldn’t be your fault, right? Yet it’s still preferable NOT TO DO THAT!