Drivers are cast as anti-woke and cyclists as the opposite, when the reality is often quite different. But I would have enjoyed an apology from the driver who turned suddenly into my cycle path
Photograph: Caia Image/Getty Images/Posed by modelsPhotograph: Caia Image/Getty Images/Posed by modelshen I’m cycling with my 15-year-old, I like him to go in front so I can see him, and he likes me to go in front, so he doesn’t have to make a judgment call about whether to overtake buses. We both like to spend the first five minutes of any journey arguing this point, to the extent that we lose any time advantage conferred by the bikes in the first place.
On the way home in the winter’s early dark we were pedalling up a cycle lane alongside stationary traffic, a gap marked “keep clear” ahead of us. A 4x4 in the opposite lane decided it had had enough of the arterial road scene and took a right turn into a sidestreet at high speed. If we hadn’t been going up a hill and therefore not that fast, it would have hit me, but much more relevant is the fact that it didn’t. Everyone was quite shaken up, and the car pulled over on the side road.
“Whose fault would you say that was, when you nearly got hit by a car?” my kid asked later. “I would say it was his fault, on the basis that you’re meant to indicate when you turn, give way to those going straight ahead and also look where you’re fucking going.”“Potentially, but then I would have said that he was already making a sudden turn without indicating, before I’d even got to the point where my hypothetical light would have been visible.
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