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Old August 14th 17, 01:49 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
jnugent
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Default Driver killed by brick weapon.

On 12/08/2017 21:21, TMS320 wrote:
On 12/08/17 16:48, JNugent wrote:

QUOTE:
“If I was going any faster I could’ve been killed.

“I usually do go quite fast because it’s a straight run and you can
pick up a lot of speed."
ENDQUOTE


That can mean anything. For some, 15mph can feel like a "lot of speed".
Given that proms tend to be fairly level and it's a £100 bike with
knobbly tyres, it's more than likely. But I am sure you would disagree.

She might or might not have been intently concentrating on the ground
below the front wheel. Only she knows which.


Perhaps the rope might not have caught her under the chin had she had
her head down (as per your uninformed idea of riding positions).

Besides, any road user (including drivers, even you) is accustomed to
look for things connected to the road and disturbing the background, not
for something static floating above it. The visual system works mostly
about matching things to past experience so would take several seconds
to work out something so unfamiliar.

But she failed to see the rope. This was a life-belt rope, by the way.
Not a wire and not a thin cord. It must be the best part of an inch
thick.


A life belt rope an inch thick? Wow, folk are tough in those parts.


The Mersey is an estuarial river a mile wide at that location. The
currents are phenomenal. Parcel twine won't do.

A few weeks ago someone posted a link about a Range Rover driver failing
to see something considerably bigger and which should have correlated to
something seen before. The back of a bus.


And?
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