He wrote lines and lines just to conclude in the end that he was speeding LOL
Girl Blindly Running Through an Intersection!
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silverbullet132
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Motorcycles are not even required to have a speedometer by law. Also, some motorcycle odometers are calibrated to take the 5%+ over-reading of speed into account, so if the speedometer is adjusted then that needs to be adjusted too.
slogan
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Yeh, That what I tried to explain OPP last time... such explanation does not work.
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freedomfighter
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not in canada you dont...hell you cant even shoot someone that has broken into your house. unless you are on the 3 floor and you shoot him at the door of your bed room.(last stand).
unfortunataly someone damages your stuff you can only call the cops...watch enough judge judy and you will find that out.
Gotta love Canadian rules, Run and try to escape, but whatever you do don't defend yourself or the person that broke into your house could charge you with assault.
This is Canada, we wait for the damn signal to safely cross the road, even in the Yukon.
That's how it's done in Quebec, the cops will give a jaywalking ticket to a corpse after they get run over.
It's pretty easy to cross the road correctly, we teach it to kindergarten aged kids in school.
What if it was an out of control bus with no brakes? She'd be flat now.
OpenGambit
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Unless you are suggesting that people should hit jaywalkers just to make a point, I don't see what you are getting at with this. This is also Ontario
Secondly, I am talking to the guy that suggested he would put (a) rip the girl a new one; and (b) put pedestrians "in a world of hurt" if they touched his car but he was just in a hurry that time, not the OP.
The girl is obviously wrong, but that doesn't change the fact that if the OP saw a car suddenly break in an adjacent lane, and just sped right on past. The girl probably learned her lesson, but by coming here and posting for support, its pretty clear that the OP didn't.
While we are on "what ifs" - next time its gonna be a car that pulls out and turns left in front of him, or it could be an old lady that just takes that long to cross the road.
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OpenGambit
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No. Don't read it if you don't like it.
slogan
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Well, shooting your ears doesn't mean you are right, and everyone else is fool.
The bottom line is: There are rules on the road, that supposed to make traffic circulation easier, but the road is not a place to fight. When somebody makes mistakes, it is the best thing to be able to level it.
Again, if you are motorcycle rider - your own safety is your own responsibility anyways: when the bike is totaled and rider got serious trauma: it doesn't really matter if rider was right De-jure, because rider's life is ruined De-facto.
GateKeeper
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Yes rip her a new one, maybe next time she will think twice about running across the road blindly, against a red, and thinking she is some sort of super girl and can do as she pleases, perhaps ripping her a new one will save her life the next time she thinks about doing this stupid act she did this time.
If you read my post, I had an advance green arrow to turn left, pedestrians had no right to go, yet a bunch of them decided to go anyways, seeing their stupidity, I slowed down, but got close enough to them that I had to stop or I would have run them over, they then had the balls to put their hands on my vehicle, and stare me down as though I was in the wrong. Perhaps you think this is acceptable, for me it's not, had other traffic not been behind me, and the light was changing for the rest of the cars to proceed going straight, your right I would have gotten out, and laid my hands on them, just as they laid hands on my vehicle. I have respect form my stuff, they should as well, it;s not theirs, and if you think like they do, as I said, let me know where you are, so I can put my hands all over your bike/car and you just stand there and watch,,,,by the way it wasn't just putting their hands on the car, it was slapping them down on the hood, open palms, and starring at me as if to say, hey we have the right and why are you making a left and not letting us go by first.....
Fortunately for them they kept walking, but it would have been great if the car behind me decided to go to my right to go around me, because he though maybe I stalled or something and he wanted to keep going, and ran into the idiots, now what would you say to that....and I have seen it happen many times of vehicles doing this, especially hen entering a two lane road way, you should enter the left lane, but some just want to be in the right, because they are gong to be going right at the next intersection, or because they assume no one is in that lane.......
Pedestrians need to follow the rules as well, the girl did not, and I will say it again, she should have been ripped a new one, I certainly would have given her a tongue lashing......
why some think this is not appropriate, I really don't understand, but hey we are all entitled to our own thoughts and opinions....
slogan
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I think that such aggressive/angry ppl have to be banned from operating vehicles on public roads.
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Piehole
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With respect to my experience with the insurance system. I clipped a dude running full tilt out in front of me across Danforth about 100 metres NE of the intersection (ie. no pedestrian right of way at all). It was 7pm dark in November and raining. I was wearing agent orange reflective rain suit.
Front axle scraped his calf a bit, sent him to hospital for observation ... he was fine other than a good spooking. . Good solid thump into my shoulder, though I stayed up.
To conclude. The insurance company put a 100% at fault accident immediately on my worldwide record. It appears that's the standard when any vehicle hits a pedestrian. Yes it affected my car renewal etc. (mind you I held off paying in full until his court date).
Yes, pedestrian was charged and "convicted" and fined for essentially jaywalking for lack of better term. I was NOT charged. Took me 6 months of calling every week to my adjuster to reverse the accident to 0% fault accident thus to not affect my record. The adjuster/omnibudsman at my company said their underwriting rules "approved" by the FSCO (google it) allowed to actually leave the 100% at fault status on my record if they wanted too. (just great eh?)
Anyhow, persistence with respect to "fightin' the man" paid off.
Front axle scraped his calf a bit, sent him to hospital for observation ... he was fine other than a good spooking. . Good solid thump into my shoulder, though I stayed up.
To conclude. The insurance company put a 100% at fault accident immediately on my worldwide record. It appears that's the standard when any vehicle hits a pedestrian. Yes it affected my car renewal etc. (mind you I held off paying in full until his court date).
Yes, pedestrian was charged and "convicted" and fined for essentially jaywalking for lack of better term. I was NOT charged. Took me 6 months of calling every week to my adjuster to reverse the accident to 0% fault accident thus to not affect my record. The adjuster/omnibudsman at my company said their underwriting rules "approved" by the FSCO (google it) allowed to actually leave the 100% at fault status on my record if they wanted too. (just great eh?)
Anyhow, persistence with respect to "fightin' the man" paid off.
Man this thread got retarded real fast.
Who cares who's fault it was, a little bit of both in this situation.
And all the bashing for individuals own opinions in the matter, to each there own man you can't force your opinion if you don't like there's.
I think it was a good video posted up if nothing less then to learn from it.
Good eye opener for both new and experienced riders alike.
Sometimes we all need a close call to keep us in check.
Who cares who's fault it was, a little bit of both in this situation.
And all the bashing for individuals own opinions in the matter, to each there own man you can't force your opinion if you don't like there's.
I think it was a good video posted up if nothing less then to learn from it.
Good eye opener for both new and experienced riders alike.
Sometimes we all need a close call to keep us in check.
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Android Cat
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Was it even legal for the bicycle to be on the sidewalk? (I do sympathize with people who don't want to mix bicycles with traffic, but hey!)
Bicycle riders that think that they're some kind of 40 kph pedestrian just because they're on the sidewalk give me acid burn. The ones on the street who pass on the right, entering my lane and right of way while I'm signalling and blocking for a right hand turn are almost too stupid to live. I've had that happen both driving and riding.
I think one large reason for this is the interval between the red/green light change in ON vs QC. Over there, a yellow light means "be prepared to stop" because as soon as it turns red, cross traffic gets the green and anyone in the intersection will get smooshed.
Here, a yellow light means "be prepared to run" because we get 3 seconds of red lights in every direction before the cross traffic gets the green. And nobody's gonna let a free 3 seconds go to waste in this day and age! Also, the delayed green helps drive red light camera revenue.
So if we're gonna play the blame game we should add traffic planners to the list. Along with the pedestrian, the cabbie, and the OP.
If the OP was doing the limit, he may have arrived at that intersection later than he did, maybe just in time to actually hit the biatch -who knows.
Even if the OP was doing 40/kph and the chick ran out the way she did, he wouldn't have been able to stop. Is hitting someone, while driving 20 over enough to catch a dangerous driving charge; even if the road kill was hit while crossing illegally?
Glad you you didn't go down OP.
Even if the OP was doing 40/kph and the chick ran out the way she did, he wouldn't have been able to stop. Is hitting someone, while driving 20 over enough to catch a dangerous driving charge; even if the road kill was hit while crossing illegally?
Glad you you didn't go down OP.
