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person on a bicycle close to the vehicle can be obscured indeed the same applies to pedestrians on crossings hence people on bicycles and indeed on foot or on motorcycles end even in cars are well advised to avoid these blind spots unless the vehicle is stationary and they can be certain of passing fully through the blind spot before it starts to move off so these stickers are in principle at least justifiable on such vehicles the same is not true of most if not all cars or fully glazed vans provided the driver moves their head when checking the vicinity of the vehicle there are generally no spots in which someone on a bicycle cannot be seen hopefully those points aren t too contentious to the vast majority of people so on to the issues offence no i don t mean offence as in being offended a number of people have dismissed complaints about the stickers as being offended or being outraged but i would not describe these stickers as offensive or outrageous nor would i ever argue a point on the grounds of being offended because personally i don t think being offended is a valid replacement for rational argument here i mean offence in the criminal sense are there any criminal offences associated with pedal cycles passing to the nearside of motor vehicles or with any incidents that may arise as a result now contrary to what one or two commenters have said overtaking on the nearside or to the left which are the normal legal phrasings undertaking is somewhat pejorative is perfectly legal one commenter claimed that it was illegal because it was in the same lane again quite untrue but since such a rule would also make it illegal for drivers to pass cyclists without moving wholly out of their lane bring it on the only offence which can be committed by overtaking on the nearside would be that of careless driving or cycling defined as being of a standard below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver or rider now some might say that passing a vehicle on the nearside is inherently careless but that s at best debatable and in any case is not how the law works as i ve said there is no legal obstruction to passing on the nearside so it s not the manoeuvre itself that makes it careless so much as the manner in which it s done overtaking on either side can be done so as to constitute careless driving as indeed can just about anything on what basis could a charge of careless cycling be justified for passing on the nearside well the highway code could be used as a guide but remember that it isn t a legal document just a set of guidelines that in theory represent expected practice don t be fooled though even that isn t necessarily true rule 73 is the only cycling specific rule that mentions passing on the nearside but it s in the context of manoeuvring long vehicles not traffic queues which is for obvious reasons by far the main scenario in which cyclists pass on the nearside rule 167 disadvises overtaking where traffic is queuing at junctions or road works but the implicit context of rule 167 is overtaking to the offside since it also disadvises overtaking when a road user is indicating right without qualification rule 163 is explicit about this being a valid reason to pass on the left but again rule 163 has its own implied context which is that of both vehicles moving rule 151 however is fairly explicit much more so than the advice on when not to pass to be clear you should be aware of cyclists and motorcylists who may be passing on either side this although not legally binding is quite plain two wheeled vehicles may pass on either side and as a driver you should be aware of them rule 160 reinforces this be aware of other road users especially cycles and motorcycles who may be filtering through the traffic other rules confer responsibility on the driver in a queue who may be being passed rule 159 says before moving off you should use all mirrors to check the road is clear and look round to check the blind spots and rule 161 says use your mirrors frequently so that you always know what is behind and to each side of you in short there is rather more responsibility on a driver to see people on two wheels than there is on people on two wheels to avoid being in a position where the driver just happens not to see them which is hardly unreasonable one person cannot control the eyeballs of another it s bloody cyclists again highway code be damned it s only those bloody two wheelers that do this right wrong in large cities people usually do this on bikes but away from urban roads it s a driver thing on multi lane carriageways once traffic in the second or third lane slows or stops the traffic in the first or second can and does pass on the inside perfectly legal ah but the in a single lane thing can t do that with a car right wrong there are plenty of regularly congested junctions where drivers partially mount pavements or verges to squeeze past queuing traffic you needn t even hang around waiting for it to happen i can show you plenty of rutted muddy verges which are testament to this happening on a regular basis this like so many things that are perceived to be isn t cyclist behaviour it s simply that the type of vehicles you see being used for this behaviour are a product of the road environment plus of course the narrowness of a bicycle helps somewhat stickers of course never suggest that drivers should take care anecdotally i don t believe i ve ever even seen one aimed at motorcyclists sure you re less endangered by large vehicles if you do this in a car but the problem here is one of reductionism and othering it can t be explained away as unique to cyclists it is as with all behaviours on the road a human thing the vehicle simply influences where and when it s possible to behave that way and there s one of the key problems with the stickers they say cyclists in big letters and associate this behaviour with cyclists it s exactly the sort of thing which no matter whether you consider it to be a small or a large piece of the puzzle contributes to people s perception of cyclists as them and of certain behaviours as unique to them when is a blind spot not a blind spot a number of people seem to claim that a corsa has blind spots now i ve never owned or driven a corsa but i ve owned and driven a whole pile of other cars and none of them has had a blind spot that could obscure someone on a bicycle close by think your car has blind spots i m sceptical one thing that we need to note is that a blind spot is not the bit you can t see when you glance in the mirrors the blind spot is the bit you can t see even after you ve turned and or moved your head the difference between the two is the didn t look properly spot always move your head remember rule 159 right if you get crushed by a left turning vehicle that s darwinism folks this is a commonly held view you ll see it in comments below news articles all the time if not explicitly then perhaps someone asking a rhetorical and pejorative question how do cyclists end up on the inside of lorries anyway eh neatly overlooking an obvious answer by being overtaken by lorry drivers sure on occasion someone will ride up the nearside of a lorry indicating left and suffer the consequences but actually if you care to check the evidence it s quite rare of course this doesn t stop people assuming it to be the cause it s false syllogism in stereo cyclists are other people other people are stupid therefore cyclists are stupid cyclists undertake lorries cyclists get crushed by lorries therefore cyclists get crushed because they undertake if you can t spot the chasmic flaws in all that then there s no hope for you nor of course does it stop some particularly sociopathic people shrugging their shoulders and glibly remarking that death is an appropriate consequence for an error of judgment we all make errors of judgment and often a terrible road layout carries much of the blame which gives us another obvious answer to the aforementioned perjorative question by following the guidance of the road markings remind us what cycle lanes look like have you noticed where cycle lanes get painted the gutter highway designers even go so far this day to put advanced stop lines at junctions to act as bait for cyclists to ride along the gutter to them potentially finding out that they re already full once they get there the same highway designers didn t have the basic competence to add an early green for cyclists to allow the asl and feeder lanes to be emptied before traffic moves off so asls and gutter lanes remain traps they are the highway system s way of training people to ride up the nearside of vehicles various authorities have sort of recognised this but they ve tended to make posters and cheesy videos rather than say change the traffic lights to lay responsibility for this at the door of people on bicycles is wildly inappropriate instead of putting stickers on small cars get on the phone to your local highway authority and start demanding better infrastructure but it stops people from passi oh come on for the most part the people championing the stickers are the exact same people telling us that cyclists constantly pass on the nearside these stickers are rife in london at least and hardly uncommon elsewhere to claim that these stickers are effective in changing behaviour in the same breath as claiming that people constantly ride bicycles up the nearside of vehicles overlooks the obvious contradiction in that no one whether cautious or reckless in in the slightest bit influenced by them there is no evidence whatsoever that these stickers reduce risk the theory that they do certainly bears scrutiny no better than the theory that they increase risk by undermining established driver responsibilities all these stickers do is add a little grist to the victim blaming mill is it just me no who else takes the same view of these stickers on small vehicles london cycling campaign and hey there s my alternative sticker the ctc journalist peter walker roadpeace tabs the road danger reduction forum tfl as mentioned in most of the above links who agree that the stickers are only valid on goods vehicles of 3 5t and above tacitly presumably all the fleet operators who don t put such stickers on cars and evidently hss hire hss hire gave the following statement as a national tool and equipment hire company with thousands of different items of equipment we have a large fleet of vehicles that can cater for everything from small dehumidifiers and heaters to huge industrial air conditioning units power generators and scissor lifts safety is one of the core values on which our business is built and it is an essential part of the fabric at hss as part of this commitment to safety our fleet has a standard set of safety stickers that must be present on all vehicles previously this had included the cycling safety sticker however as you know these are being removed from our small corsa vehicles we made that decision based on a conversation between our fleet manager and our health and safety team both agreed that the sticker did not need to be present on our small corsa vehicles and given the appetite from within the cycling community to have it removed we were happy to oblige whilst your tweet was not the first to question the sticker on our small corsa vehicles it did confirm to us that this particular policy needed to be reviewed as a sponsor of the aprire women s cycling team we are a big supporter of cycling and the cycling community as a whole so hss s fleet manager and health and safety team agree with tfl and numerous cycling and road safety groups these stickers are not appropriate on small vehicles rule 151 is the order of the day and the stickers are appropriate where a vehicle fails to give its driver sufficient visibility to be able to ensure that he or she can adhere to that rule the fundamental problem of course is that these vehicles are constantly brought into spaces occupied by the general public on two wheels and on foot the real aim is to do away with this whole contention of space first and foremost to provide greater spatial separation through infrastructure or where that s not yet achieved to provide temporal separation with advanced greens and to ensure that the vehicles with true visual blind spots have sufficient technology allow their drivers to adhere to rule 151 with the same ease that a car does because if those aims are achieved there s no perceived need for stickers at all hss hire stickers selling a dream at the cost of reality 30 december 2015 31 december 2015 bez 5 comments some ideas are good ideas but sometimes people s belief in those good ideas can whether through over enthusiasm or for other reasons lose sight of reality and that can cause problems one good idea is that of presumed liability but has road share the campaign for presumed liability in scotland lost sight of reality continue reading law presumed liability road share uk cycling infrastructure guidelines 31 october 2015 bez 6 comments the main focus of the beyond the kerb blog has always been the aspect of road use in general which i find literally in all too many cases morbidly fascinating people s attitudes which are manifested not just in people s personal use of the roads but also in the media and most concerningly of all law but occasionally i mention cycling infrastructure continue reading infrastructure we do not negotiate with terrorists 2 october 2015 6 october 2015 bez 6 comments it s perhaps no surprise that contemporary definitions of the word terrorism have largely narrowed somewhat but one of the oxford english dictionary s definitions of terrorism still represents the broader usage the instilling of fear or terror intimidation coercion bullying the first use of the term is believed to have been around 1794 and was in reference not to to the use of terror as a tool to undermine governments but to the use of terror by governments themselves only a few years later it was being used in reference to the british government of the time continue reading film ghost street tales of the road catapulting boulders 6 september 2015 bez 12 comments in writing his guest post about the notice of intended prosecution ralph shared with me some material he received from surrey police it makes for interesting reading and this post highlights one particular point continue reading law surrey police video guest post nipping it in the bud 3 september 2015 6 september 2015 bez 41 comments this is a guest post by ralph de kanter it s about just one frustrating aspect of the business of attempting to tackle bad driving the notice of intended prosecution over to ralph to share his experience of how this works out in practice from the point of view of a road user at risk from others bad driving feel free to share your own experiences in the comments continue reading guest post law nip surrey surrey police video the value of 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