Re: Cyclist hit and runs - what is the answer?

p.k. wrote:

> Simon Brooke wrote:
> >
> > Exactly. As you can see, as Guy said, no reference whatever to moving
> > cars. There's reference to 'vehicles', and there's reference to 'car
> > lengths' as units of distance, but none to moving cars. What part of
> > "Drive at a speed that will allow you to stop well within the distance
> > you can see to be clear" do you have /such/ trouble understanding?
>
> Now you are just being silly:

I think you are.

> "so
> > that
> > you can pull up safely if it suddenly slows down or stops"
>
>
> ie moving traffic

You're reading more into that than is there. There is nothing in HC 105
to suggest that its opening sentence only applies in moving traffic. I
don't think it could be any clearer.

--
Dave...

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