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Judge rules cyclist’s lack of helmet “of no relevance” as taxi driver fined €1,000 for breaking rider’s leg in roundabout crash – after police noted cyclist’s dark clothes and earphones (road.cc)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago

When going 50km/h the average distance needed to come to a comfortable stop including taking a whole second to figure out what's happening and react is 40 meters.

For an emergency stop (still taking the 1 second reaction time) it's 28 meters.

So if you can't stop with 50 meters you are absolutely unfit to get behind the wheel.

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