Almost drove into a cyclist on the
road this early morning(6am+).
the stretch of road(main) today have decided to "lights off" for
the 2nd time in last couple of month for unknown reason & it
was dark.
I filter from my home side road onto the main road, watching out
for oncoming veh on the main road, It was dark & i can't see
much, or maybe still not totally awake yet. i rely on lights from
the oncoming car beam to see whether there is oncoming traffic or
not.
As i step on the gas to filter out to the main road, a flash of
motion zoom across my screen. I was shocked and jam on the brake. I
realised that it is 1 of those labour worker cyclist just zoomed
pass me with a few of his friends convoy some distance
behind.
I could have knock down the cyclist without knowing what had
happened!!!!
It didn't occur to me that the road apart from car and
motorcyclist, there are also cyclist.
I remember we had a night cycle a few months back, i remember to
bring a blinking bike taillights for safety purpose. But i didnt
recall i have to bring a front torch light as well.
We have many friends that are runners and cyclist. I myself have
tried to be conscious of my driving on the road with knowledge of
how runners and cyclist behave on the road. Still accident,
careless or whatever you call it might cause accidents.
I dread to think those drivers that are not familiar with the
knowledge how to approach runner/cyclist on the road or those
runner/cyclist that do not know how to take care of themselves on
the road or even know the mentality of the drivers on the
road.
Accidents are still going to happen unless we address the missing
link.
