[SDCBC] Bicyclist Dies In Crash With Motorcycle

[JonIsaacs at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/6/2007 10:14:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
JimBaross at cox.net writes:

> At the risk of appearing to be too quick to jump to the defense of 
> the bicyclist... something I/we may be accused/guilty of in this case 
> where we don't know what really happened.... We do know that people 
> on bikes and in vehicles do make mistakes.
> 
> That said, bicyclists veer. It is the nature of a two-wheeled device 
> to need to be steered/veered/moved from side to side to keep upright. 
> People overtaking such a device should account for that veering to 
> some degree by using safe passing behaviors - slowing until it is 
> safe to move over to provide safe passing distance. It is not 
> generally sufficient to continue the same roadway position when 
> overtaking someone traveling slower.
> 
> But, maybe the motorcyclist did try to pass safely....
> 
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Jim:

Good stuff.  The problem is we don't know, we hope someone saw it who 
understood vehicular cycling and that the police will do a care and knowledgeable 
investigation.

Given the likelihood of all that happening, I think our role to try our best 
to be the cyclist's voice. 

jon



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