As some of the most high-quality electrical reviewers, I spend a lot of time ride the streets and occasionally I've wondered how to get out one day. Yesterday, I nearly found the answer to that question, as the police cruiser almost put me in three trucks of the traffic.
It happens that while in the installation recording the VelotriC 1 Bike air review. With the unusual opportunity to hold such a minute with a camera, it turned into the second time to take a second consideration of what I had done to get better in that situation.
And why do you keep this kind of self-examination to me? Come with me when I was Monday morning with quarterback.
The Vision You Safely With Bicycle Safety
Like cyclists, maybe we are high risk users out there. Due to the need, the debt provides a unique view – one more rotated in case and driving a car from time to time.
In fact, an hour before I had a closest sense of Grille Police Cruiser, I drove my family's hour, and I went to 0 to 60 seconds in the electric light.
When I ride electrical bicycles on a bicycle route, especially the unpredictable bicycle lanes of a busy pope in a busy street shoulder, I live in scanning threats. As you can see on the video below, which gave me about 1-2 Warning seconds as I see the Police Cruiser speed as it prepares to beat three empty roadside. The only problem was that there was the fourth line there – cycling route – and it was very busy, for me.
See what I mean in the video below.
What's up?
Basically, the police cruiser seemed to be a real rush. The officer had no lights or alarms, so I am not sure if it is legal, but the car was booking. I first heard the engine roaming before seeing the car, and it was obvious that he did not fix the morning, despite the sign of the stop at the end of the cross.
As soon as I heard the engine I turned my head until I burned a car trajectory, I was in the browser. The Velotric Driver 1 The glorist bicycle I was riding with what I could now confirm the best hydraulic brakes and I immediately began to slow down. The second fraction later, that the officer saw a panic and began to arrest his shock, sliding its rider in the stop line and pedestrian roads.
I once saw her brake dive and saw that she would be able to quit her time, quitting my brakes to go down on the bicycle. I had fewer words but thought that it was better advised not to meet COP fabrically “trying to damage the government's property with her unemployed femur.
I understand that the above video may not look like it, but let me assure you about 5000 pounds of skidding to you and you will leave your skid icon.
What was pushed right … and wrong?
It is important to remember that this kind of item occurs in countless cyclists every day. As a bicycle review, I was fortunate to record camera recording at its time and the right to share it. So why not use the opportunity to use this best for this and learn something useful in this situation?
First, let's look at what went wrong. While this is a big COP error, I'm not overnight here, or.
The biggest issue here that the officer was driving at the sideway and aimed to beat three traffic signs in the highway, all when it was clearly not looked at the highway. Now if you had responded on the phone, that would be one thing. Police cannot see some traffic laws and are allowed to ignore things such as speed boundaries and set symptoms when answering the emergency call. However, that is why they have sirens and lights, to recognize other road users. In this case, a police officer did not respond to the phone or not turn his lights or sounds. The fact that he did not open his lights or siren even after I almost woke up.
The second issue is a bad road. Not only does the police officer be caused by long shrubs and trademarks on a sidewalk that can restrict to consider the coming traffic driver. There is no protective boundary, no green paint as drivers, and there is no clear viewing areas where conflicts are very possible. The policeman should look for road users, including bicycles, but the road construction did not make it easier.
The last issue, which is still drying, that I was wearing dark colors and I was very visible. Black shirt, black pants, black hat – there is nothing jumping out and “see.” Now, I'm not a fan of the ruglists that should wear visits travel vis High clothing because they have the same kind of blossomed procedure that the people used to attack after this bar, but did you see what he crashed? “. So I could be visible more, and I shouted in Velotric by giving a lot of bright bicycle colors, but I didn't have to wear a bright yellow vest so the drivers didn't kill me.
Okay, now let's see if it is past. First of all, I know that I should always be careful that is in the bicycle. When I ride, I don't wear headphones and I don't talk on the phone. My eyes are in scanning and always listening to threats. In this case, an Were I Talking to the camera while the review was received, but you can see that I still look into it and I immediately heard the police car speed as it prepared to resign. That was meant I could get on the blocks before she knew and that I was. Fortunately, I didn't have to test the next vision since I saw her in the last minute and crashed about my brakes, but I was standing at the same time as a full sideway. Also, Velotrics through beautiful hydraulic brakes in a cool sea 1 in Bike. So that part went well – always careful your location and never deeply dumb to your important perspective as feeling or hearing.
Next, I rode on the right speed of circumstances. The bike can make 28 mph (45 km / h) easily, and I enjoy quick travel with specific locations and locations where conditions allow situations. But as you can see from the video, there is a road crossing or the shopping department almost every few seconds and there are too many opportunities for something like something. I was near 15-20 mph in this place because of the highest number of meeting, which meant having more time to respond when I received a threat. In the full amount of 38 mph, there could be no way I could not arrest during the time and then I rely on COP ineffective. Don't get me wrong, I love moving quickly and I do so often. But I too slowly slow down when circumstances suggest, and today, that began.
And finally, as I said above, the bike I held is a blue color killed. In fact, only a few minutes before, one cyclone prevented me from telling me how much you loved color. I truly think that when a policeman sees me finally, you may have seen a blue bicycle before I saw me. I have grown long with the colorful e-bikes of colorful colors, partly because of my happiness that cyclists should be forced to wear light-colored clothes to protect themselves. Personally, I like sweet and colorful e-bikes, but also accept that they help make us more visible no avail. I will also express that I was wearing a good bike hat with a well-prepared thread of chin. After a while I've put a helmet in a paved place, but a few times I've crashed for the last ten years still, I'm glad it was.
The behavior of the story, if any, that hyservilation is important to bicyclists, and most importantly to drivers. If you work in a car that shows you road accidents, you should be careful. And if you work in a car that expresses everyone in your car crash, then the responsibility is always heavy to you.
Even ignoring the fact that, in this case, it was the same people we expect to keep our roads safe caused by all road users, and that includes the worst of the world, such as motorcyclists and motorcyclists.
And like sports users in our dangers, we choose two wheels should remember that among a few people actually read my previous sentence, and that means that only we can trust in it to protect them.
Perhaps one day many cities will have better options to distinguish bicycles in cars through the use of improved road infrastructure and protected roads bicycles. Until then, we will have to rely on our eyes, our ears, and our protective helmets.
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