Letter to Drivers: Leave them on two
They push, zigzag, cut at the last minute, do whatever they want on the road - but even for stupidity the death penalty is a bit excessive isn't it?
Yoav Falls, CAR PAD
07/12/2021
Tuesday, 07 December 2021, 11:00 Updated: 11:13
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Originally, when I wrote the attached column, there had to be a video from a road camera mounted by my friend B. mounted on his motorcycle. In the video, he is seen stopping, and a moment later a pickup truck behind him hits him and sends him for a short flight in the air, after which B. falls onto the road and is hit. Since the accident in question is currently at the center of a lawsuit in court, I will not be able to present it. B. came out of this accident with bruises but is alive.
There are articles that I think about for quite a few days. At different moments I think about what I want to say, to whom, how, why and so on. I started thinking about this article when I was exposed to headlines in the last few days that since the beginning of the year 77 motorcyclists have been killed on the roads. 77 riders. This morning, when I sat down to write the number there were already 83 riders killed, just in case. Just plain. By the time you read the article this number will go up.
Some of the riders were killed in self-accidents, some due to careless riding, misjudgment or unforgivable infrastructure.
Some of them were killed because of us the other drivers on the road - in our private cars.
B. My friend could have been part of this statistic, but fate wished he landed on the road with his lower body, not his head.
You, we, the drivers - I'll turn to you now.
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Some irresponsible, stupid and careless, left them.
Let there be someone else's problem (Photo: David Rosenthal)
Let's talk about the motorcycle, almost any motorcycle you meet on the road, whether it's a heavy motorcycle, a pizza courier, a killer on Timex or a Walt courier.
The motorcycle you will encounter on the road is agile, fast and significantly more maneuverable than the vehicle in which you are sitting.
A simple matter of power-to-weight ratio.
But it is also significantly more vulnerable.
I know some of you will argue that motorcyclists ride carelessly, zigzag wildly, break traffic laws, drive on sidewalks, cross red and more and more - and if they do not care about themselves, then why should ours care about them?
I do not refer to their behavior, even within them there are those who ride carefully and responsibly, and there are those who do not.
I come to refer only to the behavior of our car drivers.
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1. Have you seen a motorcycle on the road? Keep your distance from it. Create an invisible safety net around it, and do not approach it. Do not cut it on the road as you would not cut a truck. Basically why do not you cut a truck? After all, cowards are like cowards like you, you are most afraid to cut a truck on the road, get hit by it and you are done. So this is the same relationship between you and the motorcyclists. Do not try to get out of a traffic light faster than the motorcycle rider. You will soon reach the traffic jam or the next traffic light, it may reach a hospital.
2. Do not try to educate motorcyclists. You are neither their parents nor the police. You have identified a rider trying to overtake - allow him to. Open a space for him to move on. It does not put you off suckers, and there is a good chance he will thank you too.
3. Pay attention to your surroundings, the motorcycle is small, and your mirrors do not cover the entire field of view to the rear and sides, (correct direction of mirrors is a whole Torah). Keep in mind that a motorcyclist may be in a "dead zone", and you must carefully check the vehicle's surroundings before turning or crossing a lane.
4. Be generous to the other road users it will not cost you time and health. Yes, even to the one who surprised you and was pushed and you pray to God to get his mother out of the maternal circle of football referees, you will also be good to him.
5. Among us, who does not occasionally do some nonsense in driving with the cellphone, with the razor or makeup? No one deserves to be doomed to death or disability just because your eyeliner is imperfect, or because you check in the mirror how the shave turned out.
Remember the number 83. 83 motorcyclists have been killed on the road since the beginning of the year as of this writing.
Some for no wrong in their palm because of us drivers.
Do everything you can to provide motorcyclists with a safe environment to ride.
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