Cyclists - use your lights!

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  • Cunobelin
    Cunobelin Posts: 11,792
    Peyote wrote:
    Once upon a time the CTC campaigned against the legal requirement for cyclists to be forced to use lights at all. The thinking being that drivers should be able to see cyclists on the road with plenty of time to slow down and overtake, i.e. they should be driving to the road/environmental conditions. I can kind of see their point, especially on unlit rural roads without pavements where there is increased potential for other vulnerable road users to be (i.e. pedestrians).

    However, times change I suppose...

    It was more about the transfer of responsibility

    The argument was that prior to this legislation, the driver was responsible for seeing the cyclist (whether lit like a Christmas tree or not)

    After legislation it was the responsibility of the cyclist to make sure they were seen.

    A massive change in the way roads were used at the time.
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