Tree work in London??? so who is it then :)

[Rupe]

I can appreciate that working on street trees in London is a difficult one, but to say that the cyclist is at fault is UNBELIEVABLE!!

 

Do you honestly think that if he had been caught on the head by that branch, any judge would rule that the road use was at fault? He was outside the work zone. He hadn't been asked to stop by the groundsman.

 

It doesn't matter where you're working - public safety has to be the top priority. Of course there are numpties that walk through cones, dip under barrier tape etc...but this video just shows poor practice.

 

I'd imagine the contractor must be pretty red-faced about this appearing on the internet. Just goes to show that you can't cut corners and hope you'll get away with it - not with big brother patrolling the streets with headcams!!

 

Well put.

 

The work site looks ok really, only ok, not great. But however it's set up, if the cyclist got injured then it's the contractors fault. It's quite simple. If he did EVERYTHING to make it safe then he won't be liable but he has definately not done everything.

 

If the cyclist road between the cones and got hit then it would still be the contractors fault.

[Adam Bourne]

Was the van turning right?

 

Regardless of what happened the bloke on the motorbike wants to go of and re-revise how to ride a bike safely!!!! Who overtakes on the inside of someone? What a dick.

 

The incident is 6 of one and half a dozen of the other in my eyes, crap TM poor communication the rest was the cyclist being........well a cyclist, concentrating on other things instead of the road!

[High Scale]

I agree with Paul and Rupe.

[Minotaur]

I have done hundreds of street trees mate!

 

The facts are the climber dropped the branch and nearly hit a cyclist who was NOT in the work zone, anything else is an excuse!

 

Thats the long and the short of it - well said Stephen

[Mick Stockbridge]

the rest was the cyclist being........well a cyclist, concentrating on other things instead of the road!

 

That is the biggest load of bull I have ever heard on Arbtalk.

Edited January 31, 2013 by High Scale

[Adam Bourne]

Really???

 

Ok then if you say so mick!

[High Scale]

Mick is a keen cyclist Adam.

[Mick Stockbridge]

Really???

 

Ok then if you say so mick!

 

Think about it for a minute, I have been driving and cycling for longer than you've been alive so I understand exactly how to cycle and allow for motorists and vice versa so for you to say a cyclist concentrates on anything other than the road really pisses me off.

[Adam Bourne]

Think about it for a minute, I have been driving and cycling for longer than you've been alive so I understand exactly how to cycle and allow for motorists and vice versa so for you to say a cyclist concentrates on anything other than the road really pisses me off.

 

Don't give me that older wiser crap mick! One of my best friends at school was a keen cyclist and because he was concentrating on what someone else was doing got him self killed under a lorry, ok not every cyclist does it but I guarantee he was watching what the bloke up the tree was doing rather than the road! After all its not an everyday thing seeing someone up a tree, for some folk anyway, I've been on road side tree work before and seen 2 or 3 ancients happen because they were to ingrosed in what was going on instead of the road! One of them happened to be a cyclist!

[High Scale]

Ultimately it's not the cyclists fault even if he got hit, it is the contractors responsibility to stop him even if he's being a numpty and not concentrating.

 

Bottom line, it's the contractor who will be in the wrong.