Unlighted cycles
Sir, — There is little point in. using cycle lights at night: -motorists seem- incapable of . seeing or caring about cyclists during the day. :I have been knocked off my cycle twice in clear daylight: on both occasions the motorist insisted I was at fault and on both • occasions, he was prosecuted for vcareless /driving. ■ On? a ’bicycle, one seems to average about one near miss a week with motorists jumping , red-.lights,’ opening doors abruptly or
cutting in and pulling out abruptly. The only value in the use of bicycle lights at night would seem to be that . the cyclist may have some redress - .when-, a car-driver hits him; that is, if he is still ' alive afterwards. — Yours, btc., ';■■ • ■’ .■'.:■■/■- R. H. FINDLAY. July 14, 1980.
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