At 9:30 PM -0600 2/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The DOT Motorist Handbook says your headlights will let you see about 400 >feet ahead and that you should drive at a speed that allows you to stop >within 400 feet (Page 41 of: >http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/drivers/docs/e-handbook.pdf ). Therefore, >there is no excuse for hitting a bicyclist from behind, even if the >bicyclist doesn't have any lights or even a reflector on the bicycle. >The driver of the motor vehicle in the case should have been issued a >citation regardless of whether the bicyclist had lights and reflectors or >not.
Also, it is a given that the motorist was speeding. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Darin Burleigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
