Yoga teacher wins compensation after being hit by cyclist when staring at her phone
 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...clist-16536074

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ment-434467365

I mean if it was a car that hit her the driver would have to pay up so in that respect it's fair however the issue is should a driver/cyclist be made to pay compensation when the accident was caused by an idiot

Incredible I read that he will be bankrupted by her compensation claim as well as he had no insurance, so basically if someone steps out in front of me while I am driving, looking at their phone I am to blame?

He also took evasive action so I dont get the judges comment about cyclists needing to be ready to react...

the car driver would at least be covered by insurance though, and he did swerve to avoid her...she just went the same way, surely it was 100 per cent her fault ...

Well there’s my weekend plans sorted

The law is that it's never the pedestrians fault though, which I disagree with, I'm just saying if its the rule for a motorist then it probably should for a cyclist too but yeah I forgot about the insurance situation.

She should've looked where she was going, but he should also have been aware of his surroundings.

If I'm driving and someone steps out in the road in front of me, that's my fault.

Yeah, I've been reading about this on a cycling forum I'm on. I know I'm sort of bias being a cycle commuter myself, but I'm on the side of the cyclist.
With cars you aren't forced to ride directly beside the curb, so you have ample time to break if someone steps out, or you have more than a two foot wide lane to maneuver in to swerve. This guy sounds like he tried breaking but there wasn't enough time, and swerving but there was no place to go... plus she stepped back into where he was trying to go to miss her. If she had been looking up and aware of her surroundings stepping into the street I would be on her side... but it does sound to me like she was the only one not observing the rules of traffic.

he swerved to avoid her.... what else could he physically have done?

I saw a man throw himself in front of a car in slow moving traffic a few years back :skull:

No sympathy for her, wrong judgement imo

If I were a cyclist I would be getting some public liability insurance because this will open up further claims

I'm not sure, I'm not a cyclist.

i'm surprised cyclists don't need insurance. It may have changed, but i believe it isn't/wasnt an offense to be drunk while riding a bike either and as some modern bikes can go at a hell of a speed, thats kind of daft

I do think though people looking at their phone while crossing a road should be written in somewhere as an offence and making driver/cyclist responsibility void, it's a real problem

Erm, I am torn. A driver would likely have to pay, but if she absentmindedly stepped into the road right infront of any vehicle/cyclist..then I don't see how it can be blamed on the driver.

I did this once, a few years back when CARRYING SKYE. My god it could have went so much worse but..it was raining badly and we had been stuck outside as it had been lovely minutes before, had no pram so I was carrying her..and I ran across the road, scanned for cars and there were none, didn't think about bikes and he ploughed into the side of me knocking me flying. Luckily, I managed to kind of twist in the air to make sure Skye did not hit the cement. I ended up doing my back in and having absolutely horrific scrapes and that, its scarred in places, I broke a finger, and dislocated my wrist also. Skye was unharmed, but a bit shaken. I probably could have gone for compensation if i wanted to, as he was going so fast and came from nowhere, it wasn't like I literally stepped right infront of him, but..I am an adult and realise I was at fault as much as him so :shrug:

I agree. Put your phone in your pocket when crossing the road ffs! :fist:

what kind of horrible cow as well claiming compo, she could have killed him,

Its only a matter of time before it is compulsory, some cycle lanes in London are wider than the road now

You said he needed to be aware, if he wasn't aware he wouldn't have swerved

I agree that it’s 50/50. I know she really should’ve been looking where she was going but If I were I cyclist in London approaching a set of lights that are green, I’d still be slowing down and not just honking a little horn expecting people are gonna move out the way straight away.

It amazes though, this thing in central London where people are just constantly on their phones not looking where they’re going. I remember watching a video of a car being sat in traffic in London somewhere but it was on tow. The amount of people tripping over the tow rope was baffling and hilarious at the same time.

It's the same on pavements. People looking at phones walking right into you.
They just dont care

Don't get me started on cyclists on the bloomin' pavement!

When theyre not wearing helmets, don't have a bell, and don't thank you when you let them get past?

GET ON THE ****ING ROAD!!

That's true too.
But phones is a comparatively new thing and needs nipping in the bud. No looking at the screen when walking

How ****ing cheeky to have the audacity to not only cause someone else injury due to your own stupidity but then be so pigheaded to bankrupt them to boot.

Horrible scum.