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Red Herring · 26-02-14, 08:25 AM

The kid was rather led into that by both the bikes in my view. If the video bike was also indicating right on the roundabout (and no reason to think not if he was following his mate) then the nearside move wasn't that unreasonable, and it wasn't exactly close was it. The ped rider is then clearly looking over his right should as he is now aware the bike hasn't gone where he was expecting it to and simply doesn't see the other bike brake and turn. Looking at it from a bike riders point of view I'd stack a whole lot more blame on the bike riders rather than the lad on the ped. Hopefully he'll grow up to be a bit wiser than the other two, which lets face it, won't be hard.

26-02-14, 08:25 AM	#4
Red Herring Member Mega Poster Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,708	Re: How not to ride The kid was rather led into that by both the bikes in my view. If the video bike was also indicating right on the roundabout (and no reason to think not if he was following his mate) then the nearside move wasn't that unreasonable, and it wasn't exactly close was it. The ped rider is then clearly looking over his right should as he is now aware the bike hasn't gone where he was expecting it to and simply doesn't see the other bike brake and turn. Looking at it from a bike riders point of view I'd stack a whole lot more blame on the bike riders rather than the lad on the ped. Hopefully he'll grow up to be a bit wiser than the other two, which lets face it, won't be hard.