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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    I’m not talking about being at fault.

    I don’t care about court, I’d rather not be run over.

    This case seems like an honest accident, I don’t think the driver is too blame too much here. The cyclist got into a blind spot (which is why I hate roundabouts for cyclists) and got hit.

    Nobody seems truly at fault here, but making others more aware of yourself, and being more aware yourself might have made this avoidable.

    Bad road design is yet again the biggest party to blame here.

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      You have to drive in a way that accounts for bad road design though. if you have to crawl around a corner you can’t see well then you have to do that.

      It is your responsibility as a driver to make sure that you can safely stop within the distance you can see, at all times.

      If you can only see 10cm around the corner, then you have to drive at 5cm/s

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      If the cyclist got in that bad of a blind spot, then the taxi must have been HUGE. We have boatloads of roundabouts in NL and they are just fine.

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      I’m with you on that. Where I live some roafs in the city are not lit and people will wear dark clothes and bike at night without lights. Sometimes you don’t even see them until you’re right on top of them.

      It can be kind of scary and even when being careful, there is a risk of hitting someone.