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(CANADA) Cyclist dies after being hit by SUV in Kitchener Monday night (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

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For those who don't know that area, there are multi-use paths (north and south side) separated from the road on Victoria St, where this cyclist was hit.

For a car to hit someone, they would need to be turning in or out of the business entrances without stopping/looking, which would mean they were at fault 100%.

No charges have been laid, but hopefully this will change.

Far too many cyclists being killed in Ontario. When are we going to take things seriously?

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[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Suggesting that the victim riding “unsafely” was the cause for their death and not the person driving the very dangerous vehicle around other humans kinda is defending the motorist, though

No it isn't.

I agree that some people take the fuckcars rhetoric too far, but have you seen or heard the kinds of things motorists say about cyclists?

Don't care. Just because some people are assholes, that doesn't give anyone else a green light to also be an asshole.

This is an infrastructure issue, not an individual issue. If people are opting to be in the middle of the road rather than a bike lane, then what you have is a bad bike lane, not bad cyclists.

Still assuming from nothing I see. Calgary has almost 1000km of pristine bike paths that do not interfere with the roads. I use them all the time in the non-winter months and it's truly an amazing system. Why some bikers ride on the road is beyond me unless it's the last 1-2 km of their commute where there are no bike paths which is not what I see.

like driving a truck in an urban area

There's nothing wrong with driving a truck in an urban area.