“It’s not a blind spot, it’s a fail-to-look-spot,” says truck driver Clive Matthews to the claim that trucks have blind spots that lead to fatalities on Britain’s roads. He was killed by a truck driver in August last year when riding his bicycle to work. (HGV drivers who overtake cyclists put cyclists in this inside position, but few commentators suggest such overtakes are inherently dangerous.) Also, in fifteen meters the HGV driver should have made more checks in his mirrors before carrying out the left-hand turn. “Restrictions in an HGV driver’s field of vision, or ‘blind spots’ have been identified as a significant contributory factor in collisions,” claimed the TfL release.

Source: Forbes January 09, 2019 22:28 UTC