Police and authorities blame moped for school bus accident

[morph999]

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/17620376/detail.html

I found this. This is Indiana and they are already thinking about changing the laws. How is it the mopeds fault if a truck swerves to pass a moped and hits a school bus. How would making the moped slower or licensing it make it safer? I don't see how that would change anything. They saw the laws on books are from the 1980s as if this technology wasn't around then. lol.

Gee, maybe giving us bike paths might be a good idea. There isn't one bike lane in the entire city of Indianapolis.

 

[dogman dan]

I suppose they'll ban regular bicycles for the same reason? After viewing the story,,, What the heck? Is the problem that they are too slow or too fast? Dump truck hits a school bus so it's the moped's fault? In NM it is state law that bicycles have the right to use the road. In Indiana is it the mopeds responsibility to get off if somebody comes from behind them?

Good bike lanes, and other back routes like irrigation ditch roads are the only reason I got back on the bicycle after 20 years of abstinence. I go 15 miles to work and about 75% of it is on a bike path.

 

[morph999]

at this point, if they said that an electric bike needs to be licensed with the BMV, I'd probably just abandon the bike and go get one of those really lightweight racing bikes so I can go 25 mph just on foot pedaling. What's the difference between pedaling it to go 25mph and using a motor?

 

[Russell]

at this point, if they said that an electric bike needs to be licensed with the BMV, I'd probably just abandon the bike and go get one of those really lightweight racing bikes so I can go 25 mph just on foot pedaling. What's the difference between pedaling it to go 25mph and using a motor?

You think ANYBODY can ride at 25 mph under their own power :lol: Believe me when I tell ya it's not something most people can do.


-R

 

[smithinparis]

Stories like this really get my goat.
Here we have 3 parties involved in a road accident. A trained dump-truck driver, a trained school-bus driver, and a guy on a bike (ignoring what type because that's completely irrelevent - it could have just as easily been a pedestrian or cyclist).
The dump-truck driver wasn't paying enough attention and over compensated. Maybe he was going too fast, I don't know - but whatever the situation was, as a trained truck driver you need to be able to cope with life on the road, regardless of what it is - stalled cars, cyclists, moose, debri, WHATEVER. You should be leaving enough room in front of you to be able to CLEARLY see the road and be able to react properly!
I was having this discussion with, of all people, an honest-to-goodness rocket scientist who was explaining that the energy of a fully loaded dumptruck travelling down the highway is significantly higher than the energy in a typical wartime missle or rocket warhead. Comparing the hoops you have to jump through to pick up a missle (ask Oliver North), to a dump-truck driving license, and see what is more cost-effective as a weapon.
Point is, it is completely the dumptruck drivers fault because he wasn't driving to the 'conditions' and people died. He wasn't bright enough or trained well enough to understand how to handle his rig and deal with day to day happenings on the road.
And it's because of this incompetent bastard that some people aren't going home ever again.

 

[northernmike]

That's not a moped.

That's a dumbass pocket bike chopper.

Have some respect.