Mick F wrote:]That is completely besides the point.
I believe he was riding too fast approaching a junction. He was completely unprepared for anything.
Another example:
If a pedestrian crosses the road without looking, and a car hits him, who's fault was it?
The car driver for not driving with due care knowing he was in a built-up area with pedestrians about ........................ or the pedestrian's fault for not looking?
The basis of your agument is that just about any SMIDSY is solely the fault of the victim. eg Riding along, driver pulls out in front of rider, rider collides with driver, cyclist should have expected it etc. There are many cases where a victim's conduct might have prevented something happening eg being doored. Everybody knows that it happens and a good way to avoid it is to ride outside the door-zone, but that doesn't make it the rider's fault if it happens. "Contributory negligence" recognises that the injured party might reasonably have expected to mitigate the effects of the other's negligence.
On the matter of the rider's speed, you are making your judgment of "too fast" based on a combination of the result - the rider couldn't avoid the crash - and the view in the vid of the split second before the crash. The actual speed could only be properly calculated by analysis of the vid.
Another point that was raised on a thread about riders undertaking in London, is that it is now pretty much the norm, especially in the more central areas. (We did have a thread with a vid where a rider in a group of undertakers remonstrated with the driver of an HGV.) While that doesn't reduce a rider's duty of care, drivers should be alert to it. It's not the same as out in the sticks. A driver from London on unenclosed moorland roads has to appreciate that they are sharing the road with sheep and drive accordingly.