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- From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
- Subject: Re: Lane Splitting: a new twist
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.010913.19895@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:09:13 GMT
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- Chris BeHanna (behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com) wrote:
- > Here's a perhaps more practical piece of information: you can file
- > an amendment to the traffic report. The jackass who moved without signalling
- > should at least receive a citation for an illegal lane change or improper
- > passing or whatever. You may have to go to the cop shop and file it yourself,
- > and you may have to prosecute it yourself. The amended police report should
- > show that the jackass changed lanes without signalling (or at least attempted
- > to) and should at least share the blame. You, the rider, were not in violation
- > of the law (at least not explicitly) by sharing lanes.
-
- > If you do nothing, you'll lose. If you work hard, you may have a
- > chance of winning something. Bear in mind that if the jackass has to share
- > the blame, then he'll have to share both the repair expenses on your bike
- > AND the expenses for his door, which will make him less likely to try to find
- > the most expensive repairs possible.
-
- And maybe make him more likely to use his turn signal in the future, one
- hopes.
-
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