Your chance to see what the HGV driver sees

pbiggs · June 2007

From the London Cycling Campaign:

See and Be Seen around HGVs.

June 26-27 Tuesday & Wednesday 7am - 7pm

Your chance to see what the HGV driver sees, or doesn't see. Turn up
anytime

Two large lorries will be set up all day Tuesday and Wednesday in
Trafalgar Square. This is your chance to get up close and stay safe.
Sit in the driver's cab, see what you look like in the driver's mirror.
Walk / cycle around the lorry, discover where you can be seen and where
you cannot. Talk to the police and some drivers, explain what it's like
cycling near a lorry.

One objective is to educate cyclists by getting to understand lorries.
The other objective is to educate lorry drivers and trainers. You can
take part in video filming of your moves and reactions, tell them what
you think and feel. These videos will be used to help train lorry
drivers in London. The aim is to reduce the number of collisions and
deaths. If a lorry hits a cyclist - it's the cyclist who hurts.

This show is put on by the Commercial Vehicle Education Unit of the Met
Police. They are working to make freight transport safer.

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Please pass this information on to other cyclists . . . . .

Charlie Lloyd
Cycling Development Officer
London Cycling Campaign

~Pete

Hackbike 6 · June 2007

I just take it they dont know im there unless im blowing kisses to them and they are doing the same back.

Eye contact really.

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pbiggs · June 2007

Same here, except I don't literally blow kisses at them. Well, I haven't done yet [;)]

Still it would be quite interesting to see what the driver sees. Hopefully it will wake some cyclists up to the dangers.

~Pete

Hackbike 6 · June 2007

Sorry.I meant I can appreciate their blind spots.I also know cab drivers have blind spots if they refuse to look in their mirrors.[;)].Im not saying lorry drivers don't though.

Hackbike 8 Commuting Debut 09/09/2006Dawes Audax 2006 New 20/09/2006 

 Cycle Commuting since 1981 

Cycling Proficiency Test 24 May 1977 (30 years ago)

 Ride to work part 1 of 8 http://tinyurl.com/ypjapc
Ride to work part 2 of 8 http://tinyurl.com/2jfagu
Ride to work part 3 of 8 http://tinyurl.com/2jcldv 

How not to lock a bike. http://i14.tinypic.com/52355zr.jpg

T800 · June 2007

And, as I experienced last week, there are truck drivers who have blind spots when the road ahead is clear, apart from the cyclist in front of them in the primary position that they're gaining on, and so they overtake on a blind bend, cut in too soon, forcing you onto the footpath (I was lucky) and do so with impunity because they don't care and they have no number plate on the rear of their trailer.

 Just a pic of my bike.
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So, after a lot of thought, I'd like to reconsider. Please, if it's not too late, make it a cheeseburger.

Cadfael · June 2007

I have got into the habit of raising my hand when a HGV has passed me, just to let the driver know he has cleared me. I don't really know how effective this is, I am pretty sure he will have a good idea anyway.

BentMikey · June 2007

Perhaps this event is more for those HGV drivers that don't look out for cyclists?

My bikes
My skates

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rothbook · June 2007

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Two dead prostitutes rolled up in carpet in the back of the cab?

rothbook · June 2007

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Your chance to see what the HGV driver sees

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