"harryagain" wrote:
"Tim+" wrote in message
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Harry Bloomfield wrote:
harryagain pretended :
Well, she shouldn't be reversing out.
She should either turn around or reverse in.
So she is at fault regardless.

Agreed! There were no head injuries and as already said he was riding on
the grass verge between road a pavement.

A likely scenario is that she had reversed out of that drive lots of
times, over that rarely used pavement and never seen anyone on foot or a
bike, so why bother slowing down or looking?

We all see what we expect to see. Behave unexpectedly and you risk not
being seen.

Tim

No we don't.

Yes we do. Our brain makes assumptions and takes shortcuts to lessen the
amount of data it has to process. What you really don't expect to see is
much more likely to escape your notice. Well known psychological
phenomenon.

Never heard of defensive driving?

Of course I have. It doesn't prevent your brain from trying to take
shortcuts sometimes though. Just lessens the chance of you getting it
wrong.

It's a very bad practice to reverse out on to any road.

I agree. I don't do it. Millions of people do though.

Tim