Is cycling through stationary traffic illegal?
A friend of mine was filtering up the inside of a queue of traffic, when he was knocked off by a passenger opening a door. As he successfully claimed against the driver's insurance (they backed down just before it was due to go to court) I can only assume that a) he was commiting no offence and b) the driver is responsible for the passenger's behaviour.
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Good news except it's better not to find out the niceties of the law by being injured. The insurance payout is, of course, civil law, not criminal law (which covers offences alleged to have been committed.)
Insurance companies dragging their feet and all the rest of it is standard practice. I'm surprised there is no posh Latin phrase to cover this shabby activity.
Good news except it's better not to find out the niceties of the law by being injured. The insurance payout is, of course, civil law, not criminal law (which covers offences alleged to have been committed.)
Insurance companies dragging their feet and all the rest of it is standard practice. I'm surprised there is no posh Latin phrase to cover this shabby activity.
thirdcrank wrote:ransos
Good news except it's better not to find out the niceties of the law by being injured. The insurance payout is, of course, civil law, not criminal law (which covers offences alleged to have been committed.)
Insurance companies dragging their feet and all the rest of it is standard practice. I'm surprised there is no posh Latin phrase to cover this shabby activity.
Agreed. I was just pointing out that the driver's insurer would be highly unlikely to cave in, had the cyclist been commiting an offence.
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Ambermile wrote:Can I just confirm here... undertaking is a nono and involves passing *moving* cars, whereas filtering is OK (though at your risk) passing *stationary* cars, right?
Arthur
Not quite. Check the first two pages of this topic.
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patricktaylor wrote:Yorkshireman wrote:Ambermile wrote:Can I just confirm here... undertaking is a nono and involves passing *moving* cars, whereas filtering is OK (though at your risk) passing *stationary* cars, right?
Arthur
Not quite. Check the first two pages of this topic.
Why just the first two pages?
'Cos the title of the thread is "Is cycling through stationary traffic illegal?", and the question was answered (one way or another) in the first two (or three?) pages. If Ambermile had read those pages why would he be asking the question?
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lauriematt wrote:no its not
What's not?
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Re: Is cycling through stationary traffic illegal?
max2008 wrote:I realised afterwards that the passenger and/or the driver had seen me and decided to open the door and get out to make their point.
Quite apart from everything else, it would have been handy to point out that if you had hit the door, they may well have been unable to close it afterwards.
Nothing like a bit of self-interest to dissuade them from playing silly games.
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Mick F wrote:Yeah, the police reckon it's not illegal to cycle on the pavement or over a zebra crossing either!
saying that i once got stopped for cyling on a pavement down a one-way street..trying to take a shortcut
policeman had a quick chat...must have had not much else to do that day
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