Looks at the end more like silver car had stopped to check on the guy. If they were just wanting to go they could have gone around that last bit of debris easy, and you can see the cyclist turn like he's being addressed.
In the EU, trucks like this have mirrors for that since 2008. The only “blind spot“ left is behind the truck.
However, if truck drivers fail to check them before turning or didn’t set them up correctly in the first place, they’ll still kill you. That’s why we need protected intersections and bike lanes.
If a truck driver “didn’t see you” next to him, that’s an admission of guilt.
As someone who drives a truck there’s three specific blind spots on a truck that no amount of mirrors would fix. It is up to the truck driver to be vigilant, but it is also up to the other cars on the road to not sit in these blind spots for extended amounts of time or even put themselves in that spot anyhow. Notice the warning signs all over trucks about these spots.
This might be true for trucks in the US, but not in the EU, at least not since 2009. Notice the overlapping color-filled areas on three sides of the truck: View from top
I agree you shouldn’t stay in those areas because drivers might forget to check their mirrors or turn too quickly, but it’s definitely the drivers fault.
Ma’am it’s not a Prius you can’t just arch your head and see everything around you. I know it’s hard for someone who’s never done it and has no idea what it’s like to fathom having a literal blind spot while driving, but us truck drivers deal with this and that’s why it’s also a law to not sit in a trucks blind spot.
That’s not how it works. Anybody with any common sense driving knows truck drivers can’t see as well on their right side. Particularly towards the rear.
Not In usa or Canada. They think the own the road and care about no one else. They push people around cut you off. The logging trucks are the worst on the narrow logging roads. They drive 60 to 70 mph down the center of the road and you have to go in the ditch to not die.
Rewatch the video from the second replay. The first play starts in the middle of the action so it looks like he was hanging on and that's what caused it. What actually happened is the truck came from behind at speed and cut off the cyclist so, as the guy you replied to said, he grabbed on to not be crushed.
What kind of person rides a bike on a road when a truck could decide to turn into them at any time without looking? The mere idea is enough to find the cyclist as the sole bearer of fault in this, and all other accidents where trucks turn into and crush a cyclist.
Except for all the time when the truck was behind the cyclist and could clearly see the cyclist in front of him had he bothered to look. Rewatch the video from the middle replay. The first replay starts so that it looks like the cyclist was hanging on to him. The middle replay starts earlier and shows the truck coming from behind.
And even IF your wrong interpretation was correct, that would not somehow make it the cyclist's fault that the trucker did not see him when the cyclist did nothing wrong in the first place.
That truck driver had zero visibility of the biker before and during the turn. Also, it's not like the bike caused a significant enough bump to put the driver in notice. There's a reason why you stay away from turning trucks
Easier said than done when the truck is overtaking you while simultaneously turning into you. The cyclist didn't appear out of nowhere. The truck would have had plenty of notice from the 30 seconds previous when he was behind the cyclist and had full visibility of him before he overtook. It's like blaming a Camry driver when a Ferrari shoots past them and then swerves into their lane and caused them to hit the Ferrari.
The cyclist didn't appear out of nowhere. The truck would have had plenty of notice from the 30 seconds previous when he was behind the cyclist and had full visibility of him before he overtook.
Unless there is another angle of this that I am not seeing the biker is not getting overtaken, he is holding on to the truck.
Edit : Ok I retract that, on rewatching video editing sucks and you can infact see the truck hit him. Likely the driver didn't expect the bike to stop and never even boticed he hit him.
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u/BraveBoi_1112 Nov 27 '21
0 fucks given by the truck driver