'I Often Go Through A Red Light When No Traffic Around' | Cyclist Confession
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- Talk’s international editor Isabel Oakeshott reveals why she sometimes cycles to work.
“I can get between my place and Talk towers in about 10 minutes, especially if I bust a few rules on the way.”
Ian Collins and Isabel Oakeshott debate whether cyclists who kill should face life in prison, with Oakeshott arguing it's not a top priority given the judicial mess and lack of long sentences for violent crimes.
Click here for more from Talk talk.tv
If you need any help visit: talk.tv/helplines
![4BANG - NOT LIKE US (REMIX) [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HO22cYkha1s/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Full Episode] MasterChef Junior Thailand มาสเตอร์เชฟ จูเนียร์ ประเทศไทย Season 3 Episode 2](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YpQnHoQvZt4/mqdefault.jpg)
the traffic rules say you should stop ffs
They are immune , jumping lights , until an accident , then it’s the motorists fault
Isobel has no comprehension of immaturity or lack of responsibility that goes with being a teenager.
Road users must abide by the highway code. Simple as.
The Highway Code is not the same as the law. It has become morbidly obese and recently is being corrupted by woke clap-trap.
@@cyclingSausage Fascinating. Can you list any other things you don't see?
@@manchegocheese997 I don't see intelligent people responding to my comments, that's for sure!
Cyclist are a menace on the roads and they need to be reigned in. This lady has greatly disappointed me here and I will view her in a different light from now on. Unfortunately her attitude if all too typical of cyclists today and it stinks. Her relationship to Tice and Reform leaves me wondering if I need to think twice about voting for them now. I think that Tice will do well to have a quiet word with her about her media rants.
Reined. Kings reign.
@@Stripeysnave You are roght of course. Unfortunately, ever since my stroke I find my recollection of spellings is not so good. I often have to refer to the dictionary to check, exspecially when there are possible alternatives. My keyboard accuracy is also dreadful and I always spend more time correvtibg the things I write than I do in the original words. Thankk you for pointing this out.
@@michaeltelemachus5112 I understand. Thank you.
You might pause and check there isn't any traffic and run a red light but many cyclists run red lights when there is loads of traffic .
Ian Colin's is not only the best Presenter on this Station and others he is also the funniest.
so who would you blame if a speeding car hit you when you went through a red light. Yourself or the car driver?
Nope. Nope. That is the point. As a cyclist it is safer, much safer , for EVERYONE, when I run red lights while absolutely paying attention. On a bike my situational awareness is far superior to car drivers. As ever, not all cyclists qualify.
@@jackdeniston6150 As a cyclist, you are NOT free from the RTA and Highway Code rules, so therefore, you are breaking the law. Going on your reckoning, if I claim to have enhanced awareness, I can run any red light I chose. Red means STOP for ALL road users.
@@bustersw1760 You just don’t get it, do you? If a cyclist goes through a red light he will have checked that all is clear. A cyclist’s life is in his own hands.
@@Stripeysnave It`s you who doesn`t "get it". A cyclist who goes through a red light is BREAKING THE LAW, no and if`s or buts. I realise that cyclist think they`re above the law and can offer no end of excuses for ignoring the law, but it`s quite clear, you break the you should get fined, you get splattered jumping the lights, then tough.
Not acceptable! I often cross the road not far from where you are at Talk Towers. I cross at the crossing between Hays Wharf and London Bridge station. If I’m in a hurry I will emerge from the station, I can see if the lights are red or not and if they are I might continue running across the road. On one occasion I did collide with a cyclist who cycled through a red light. Fortunately neither of us were hurt, but the cheek of it, the cyclist started having a go at me! Wouldn’t have been you would it Isabel?
'It's not for the cars that you can see, it's for the cars that CAN'T see you' - a quote about indicators, but applies to cyclists who run red aptly.
Although I am a cyclist, I don't agree with cyclists riding through red lights. They should dismount and walk through the light and across the junction as a pedestrian, so they stay within the law. I know that, from a safety point of view, it makes little difference whether a cyclist cycles across or walks through a junction, but we should comply with UK law as it is. Hopefully, the UK will eventually follow the lead of Paris, Canada and some US states, where you are permitted to treat a red light as a give way/yield sign.
No harm, no foul.
Wow, that's probably the only thing I'll ever agree with her about.
All road users should stop for a red light that includes bikes, when the traffic light is red that's when pedestrian's cross, what's the result?
Speaking sense here, if no one around then go, if worst case happens, hold your hands up, cameras have it on tape anyway.
Let common sense prevail...
I do...especially in the morning around these smart lights that seem to detect cars but not bikes, unless you want to hang around waiting for traffic to appear before going
Lots of illegality these days goes unpunished. A car went through a red light yesterday in front of me (that chaged to green 3 seconds later). The big issue is that the more egregious rule breaking goes unpunished, I am not afraid Isabel will run me over, or some other cautious person on an illegal e-bike or scooter will cause mayhem. But there are a lot of other people on 2 wheels (and four) that DO cause mayhem. And they do so with apparent impunity. How thin or thick an end to the wedge do you start taking action?
If every illegal e-bike that could be stopped was crushed, the issue would dwindle to almost nothing in weeks. Quite what you do with the cyclists I don't know; but fixed wheel bikes and bikes doing 10mph+ over the speed limit could be targeted (with a change in the law of course).
Her admitting most cyclists run red lights, and bust a few rules to get home faster, with no remorse Is F🤬in mind boggling . Then to act like a few cyclists killing pedestrians is no biggy, like WTF!
Throw the full extent of the law at them.
It's about time we had a basic bicycle test, road tax, MOT and number plates. So we can identify these people who break the law. Also we need to stop cyclelist from riding on the pavement.
Isabel is wrong about Brady - he was incarcerated at Ashworth Hospital for more than 30 years, not Broadmoor.
It is sometimes safer to move off before other car traffic which then tries to push you off where the road narrows at the islands
You can even as a car driver if there is nobody about and car drivers do it in daylight . ( R. L .R. )
If a car driver or a cyclist hit somebody by accident and the person died it is manslaughter and they should be jailed for 10 yrs.
An accident using a car is also not intentional, so what is the difference and what is the difference if a car goes through a red traffic light when there is no other traffic around, does she think that she has an extra right to ignore the law? What she actually means by someone someone racing around the corner at some crazy speed, is someone going through a green light that means that the road is clear.
So it is OK to be responsible for the USA and presumably have the nucular codes at 80 but not allowed to drive a train!
I used to think she was quite bright, just goes to show how wrong you can be.
Agreed a cyclist or driver shouldn’t be accused of murder and given a life sentence if someone dies as the result of an accident. It was an accident after all, however avoidable it was. A more fitting charge would be manslaughter, this cyclist in Reagents Park seems to have got away Scot free after someone has died due to his actions. Apparently he was cycling over the speed limit which apparently doesn’t cover cyclists, and hit an old lady with the result she died from her injuries. If he’d been riding at the speed limit he would have had more time to react and avoid her, or stop before he hit her and she’d still be alive, he indirectly killed her and apparently will not face a charge for it. I sometimes ride a bicycle myself, I comply with speed limits (it’s very unlikely I’d be able to reach them) and I obey road signals. But I’m appalled at the standards of some cyclists. A couple of days ago I had to drive through London from the M25 into Hoxton my wife and I started to have a contest guessing if the various cyclists we saw would actually stop at traffic lights. The result was about 50/50, the number of cyclists that just ride through a red light then dodge through crossing traffic or crossing pedestrians is astonishing. As a car driver I have to leave a minimum distance between me and a cyclist if I overtake them. But with the 20mph speed limits a a fair number of times cyclist were overtaking me. When this happened they would normally pass on my left between my car and the curb, it would seem when they overtake like this they don’t care about having a 1.5 metre clearance, they just squeeze through regardless. And there were two cases of riding a bike the wrong way in a road, one riding the wrong way in a one way street, the other riding up the wrong side of a busy road (yes he was on the road not the pavement) against the flow of traffic. Both were a little startling to say the least, it’s surprising to suddenly be confronted by a cyclist going the wrong way facing you in the road. Of course if I were to accidentally knock someone off their bike I’d automatically be blamed for the accident.
Cyclists seem to lead a charmed life regarding the law, speed limits don’t apply to them, some don’t comply with traffic lights, the odd one rides in the wrong direction on the road and some take to the pavement then dodge through the pedestrians to go round the slightest obstacle on the road. All without consequences, meanwhile a driver has to abide by the constantly varying speed limits, observe No Entry signs, stop at all of the numerous red traffic lights, avoid wayward pedestrians that cross the road where they like, give cyclist plenty of room if you overtake them, but have eyes in the back of your head or ESP if a cyclist decides to overtake you on your left in an almost invisible space between you and the curb. All this while navigating your way to a destination, of course a vehicle has to be road registered and is easily traceable by the registration number that has to be displayed making the driver an easy target for prosecution for any infringements.
So for this woman to sit there on national TV and openly admit she also breaks the law by riding her bike through red traffic lights is abysmal behaviour. She obviously knows there will be no consequences for her statement. And it maybe seen as a green light for more people to copy her and ignore the Highway Code.
the narrative of cyclists in ignoring red lights is that we should understand they are not motorised they use their feet and just walk on their peddles just like pedestrians use their feed to walk on pavements so like pedestrians they have no need to obey red lights
Red light is a red light . You’re only at risk if someone comes round a corner at breakneck speed. That’s why there’s that bloody law you lamp!
If cyclists had to carry registration plates, they would be caught on many dash-cams and be reported to the police for doing something far more dangerous than a car driver sitting at red traffic light looking at his mobile phone and then cycling Mikey rides up and reports him or her to the police, both instances are wrong but the cyclist is very likely to make a car swerve and cause an accident but it is fine for the cyclist because they can just carry on riding never to be found while the car driver is left to carry the can. Cyclists have ridden into pedestrians and then just ridden off and they will not be found. Cyclists should be registered and carry plate and carry a third party insurance.
What about bad drivers who kill cyclists? I think it’s five a day. There seems to be a bit of an imbalance here with everybody knocking the cyclists since this report came out.😢
No doubt a motorist going through green lights legally hit a cyclist going through red lights illegally the motorist would be in trouble, why?Motorist s pay for the use of roads cyclists don't, are cyclists oblivious to what red lights mean and if so then fine them when they do it
LOL "I'm just being honest" and STUPID and ENTITLED
And why not let kids drive trains? I seen a group down my locall shops the other day. Trousers around their ankles and covered in rainbow, communist and hamas badges. And the smell.... But, i'm told they're so smart, i bet if you asked nice they could give you a working solution to fusion or something.