Lorries cause more cycling accidents

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/30/lo...

So 58% of all cycling accidents with vehicles are with HGVs etc yet they represent 4% of the vehicles on the UK roads.


I'm sure and hope it's easily possible to further reduce car and bike accidents further however surely there is a big easy win here with HGv?are the accidents also not much worse for injuries/death with HGVs over cars?


I wonder if the solution is to enforce HGVs to be mainly run at night 8pm-5am clearing congestion and also I doubt too many cyclists would be on our roads during those hours. Have dramatically cheaper VED for those vehicles to use at night ditto insurance possibly govt subsidised will be vastly cheaper than buying new roads as instead we'd be buying space on existing roads a win win.

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KrazyIvan said:

Being involved and be the cause are not the same thing. Your thread title is deliberately misleading, and points to the "victim" mentality too many cyclists have.

I'm no cyclist.

However the worst that can happen to a car or kitty is a dent or scratch or smashed screen.
Whereas the cyclist impacting a vehicle could be fatal and at the least will cause actual harm.

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Moonhawk said:

Precisely this.

So much focus has been placed on motorists over the past couple of decades - perhaps some effort should be put into changing behaviours of other road users as part of a holistic approach.

Driverless cars/fully automated is the long term solution. You'd have a single standard or road skill not what we currently have from superb to utterly lethal idiotic driving.