From: AdelaideNow - September 01, 2011
The cyclist, aged in his fifties, was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital shortly after 3.30pm, with severe head and chest injuries.
The incident happened on Unley Rd and police have advised motorists to expect delays in the area as they investigate the cause of the crash.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/cyclist-taken-to-hospital-after-he-wa...
Permalink Reply by Simon Lownsborough on +1. Intentionally or not, VERY poor use of words. As though cyclists are … oh never mind.
I feel for him and hope he recovers, my thoughts are with his family as well.
Permalink Reply by Sam on Cyclists love aiming for open car doors - the very thought of binning our expensive hardware and severing a major artery makes us smile.
tards.
Permalink Reply by Ken the Dane on Solution:
bike path to be put in between pavement and parked cars on major arterial roads. That way only passengers can open doors into bike and considering there is mostly only the driver in a car is significantly reduces the risk
Bike path to be raised. To avoid cars crouching into the bike path whether parking or doing left turns.
Permalink Reply by Ian Rawley on Kenneth, Understand your thoughts here but they tried something similar recently in the city along Wright St and it was a disaster. Cyclists were frightened to use it due to the fact that nobody crossing between parked cars or entering / exiting side roads is looking for bikes running between the pavement and the parked cars!
The safest place for bikes is either completely off the street altogether (not practical) or on the street in full view moving with the traffic, dedicated lanes help but cyclists must be visible to be safe(r)
Hope this guy gets well - bad day for all :-(
Permalink Reply by Ken the Dane on well it works for several million people in Europe/Scandinvia where I am from. Yes it takes something to get used to, which is apparent when tourists come to Copenhagen, but it doesn't change the fact that is is the right and only way to do it. Sturt St. was a first class example of someone who thought we could do it better or didn't have to learn from the millions (read billions) of dollars spent in traffic safety research done elsewhere. Gave bike lanes a bad rap and which it the last thing we needed.
I can't see why metropolitan areas around the Australian capital cities is any different from Europe. Sure density of living is differrent which means that are less council tax money to pay for this, but that only means it should take longer time to fund/implement.
All major arterial roads (4 lanes) going out to grand junction, st. bernhard, cross road, tapley hill and should be designed like that http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geo...
A lot of bike riders lives have and will be spent untill this gets implemented
Permalink Reply by heather on Kenneth, years ago I asked DTEI's Office of Cycling & Walking for that. Told that cyclists have to be near vehicles because parents worry about children getting out of the car when closer to passing vehicles. Can't you recall as a child shuffling left along the back seat so you could exit the car on the left side?
Ian, it works in The Netherlands.
Kenneth, recently arterial Churchill Road was 'upgraded' by widening the footpaths to about 5.5m and narrowing the road. This puts cyclists very close to heavy vehicles on this freight and commuter route. As coordinator of Prospect BUG, I asked for separated bicycle lanes (the footpaths did not need to be widened that much), but ignored by Prospect Council, DTEI and Minister for Transport. I know of three experienced cyclists who will no longer cycle Churchill Road. Melbourne and Sydney now have some separated bike lanes, but my council rates has been wasted on 'upgrading' a road to an outdated design.
Permalink Reply by Danielle on Still managed to break my ankle when I was doored point-blank under these circumstances . . . still, better to crash onto the footpath than under the wheels of an oncoming car. I am eternally grateful that my worst wasn't as bad as it could be.
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Permalink Reply by rustychisel on No, incorrect. It is an offense against the RTA to open a car door into traffic without first checking in rear view mirrors.. I do hope the cyclist pulls through
Permalink Reply by Simon Lownsborough on Your kidding! That's just wrong. The law really is an ass sometimes. Or maybe it's just interpretation of the law…
Permalink Reply by Ken the Dane on In Denmark there is some kind of clause/philosophy in the legal system in order to protect 'soft' (pedestrian, bikes) road-users which mean that they will most likely always be honoured in situations like this.
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