A recent car accident in a dark parking lot in Melbourne has sparked controversy among netizens.
In a video from Facebook, an Audi crashed the owner of a bike two meters away at the corner of the parking lot.
The owner of Audi was supposed to be fully responsible for the accident, but when the video was uploaded to social media, there was a "reversal."
Netizens who watched the video backed Audi's owners, accusing the bike of "speeding":
"he regarded the parking lot as his own bicycle lane. He was the one who was wrong. "
"if the cyclist pays more attention to his speed than to his flamboyance, he can easily avoid the car. Imagine he might have hit a child at that speed! "
"another person who thinks that the speed limit in the parking lot is not applicable to bicycles. All parking lots stipulate that the speed of the car should not exceed the speed of walking. Maybe he doesn't understand the rules. "
"the mistake lies with the bike. Ride beyond the speed limit and ride casually. The rider is responsible. It's time for bicycles to register their license plates! "
There are, however, some who argue that both sides are wrong:
"there must be something wrong with the car owners, but seriously, the cyclists should really think about it before they get through the busy parking lot at high speed."
"there was a stupid thing in the trunk of the car, but the cyclist did an equally stupid thing. Most sedan owners do not expect a bicycle to pass through an underground parking lot at that speed. Bicycles should take responsibility and take a look at the environment there. Poor visibility fork = slow down! "
There are also a small number of people who fight for the bike owners:
"the bottom line is. All drivers should give way to moving cars / bicycles. I have seen some serious casualties caused by bicycle accidents. I hope the bike owner is not hurt, if he is injured, he needs to file a TAC complaint as soon as possible and should seek legal advice. "
The common traffic accident caused heated discussion among netizens, and even appeared to be "ruthless" in the face of the bike owners who had been hit, perhaps because Melbourne's sedan owners and self-confident owners had long been "deeply resentful".
Before that, the two sides had already "fought" many times.
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One: bicycle V.S motor vehicle
As early May, Brisbane had a protest event for bike owners.
The 50 cyclists left their bikes at the crossroads of the main roads during the rush hour, lying dead by their cars, and the whole intersection looked like a tragic "scene of the accident".
This time protest founder Shelley Chen was hit by a car while riding a bike. She launched the protest campaign to appeal to people to pay attention to the safety of bicycles.
But the protest campaign sparked discontent among car owners, some of whom accused protest owners of wasting taxpayers' money.
Even more, at the end of May, 90, 000 car drivers jointly called for a change in traffic rules, hoping that government would no longer allow bicycles to ride side-by-side.
Car drivers complain that taxpayers' money is wasted on expensive bike lanes, that bicycles hinder traffic, and that bicycles often travel on busy roads, creating safety risks.
Traffic accidents between bicycles and cars are often the trigger of a war of words between the two sides, and each battle of words revolves around whether the rules are reasonable or not.
In recent years, some new traffic regulations are also trying to regulate the behavior of both sides. But often the regulation between the two sides of the regulation may have a counter-effect.
II: mutual understanding is essential
Australia's traffic regulations have always been complex and tend to protect vulnerable road users, that is, the general rule of traffic is car courtesy for bicycles and pedestrians.
In July, for example, the state of New South Wales will introduce new traffic regulations that require cars to keep a distance of 1 meter from their bikes when the speed of the car falls below the 60km/h. When the speed is higher than the 60km/h, the car needs to keep a distance of 1.5 meters from the bike, or the driver will be fined A $330.
The traffic regulations are clearly intended to protect bicycle owners and try to reduce the accident rate. However, many owners say that even if the intention is good, how can we maintain this safe distance?
Many roads are narrow and crowded, and sometimes when two bicycles ride side by side, the bike on the outside is almost on the motorway, and keeping a distance of one meter or a half means pushing the car into the other lane. On the contrary, it increases the risk of safety.
Or cars can only wait for bicycles first, but slow traffic can exacerbate traffic jams in cities like Sydney.
Bike owners and car owners can not help but wonder whether unreasonable traffic rules exacerbate the conflict between the two sides.
Roads belong to everyone, and the safety and convenience of all road users should naturally be taken into account. For more vulnerable bicycles and pedestrians, the government should naturally set rules to balance their interests.
However, road etiquette such as driving etiquette is difficult to enforce with hard traffic rules, even if there are rigid rules, it is very difficult to implement and regulate.
As Australia's population density rises, traffic pressures in cities like Melbourne or Sydney are growing. When the road infrastructure is difficult to keep up with and the road rules are difficult to enforce, it is necessary to solve the contradiction between bicycles and cars, and finally, it has to fall into mutual understanding and mutual respect among individuals.
Bicycle owners should consciously abide by the traffic rules, try not to travel in the traffic flow, even if there are no regulations, as far as possible self-conscious driving alone. It's not just to avoid troubling others, but also to be responsible for your own safety.
Car owners should understand that bicycles and pedestrians could suffer far more damage in the event of an accident than they might be.
Therefore, they should take the initiative to let bicycles and pedestrians, when on the road not impatient, better wait three minutes, do not snatch a second, responsible for the safety of others and their own.
epilogue
A bicycle and car accident caused heated discussion among netizens. It can be recalled that in recent years, there have been frequent quarrels between the two sides, long ago "accumulated grievances" have been deep.
To solve this problem, we should not only rely on reasonable road construction and traffic regulations construction, but also rely on mutual understanding and mutual respect among all road users. Only in this way can traffic be orderly.