[SDCBC] "Actuarial inevitability" my #(#$&@ !

[Trevor Bourget]

At 09:31 PM 7/17/2007, Robert Leone wrote:
>I turned back and found a roadie had collided with a young woman on 
>a beach cruiser.

Could you tell or did you ask who was on the wrong side of the road?

>the roadie mentioned it was a blind corner, and said the collision 
>was "an actuarial inevitability."

This is just techno-speak for "an accident waiting to happen". We 
would not accept such nonsense from a motorist who ran into a cyclist 
just because the sun was in their eyes as it is the same place and 
same time every day, or foggy conditions just like every other June 
morning near the beach. A hazardous corner implies extra caution is 
required. That's the basic speed law.

>Maybe if we had bike paths without blind corners

Every road is going to have its hazards. The most pragmatic thing is 
to ask for a yellow caution sign to be posted.

>I do know I'll be slow and vigilant rounding that bend

I have a bell on my bike and use it before going around curves with 
limited sight line such as the one on Kara Knott bike path just at 
the bottom of the bridge at the north end. I still slow down, this is 
to warn those coming towards me to get or stay on their own side.

-- Trevor