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‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road

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‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the roadSerhii Milekhin/Shutterstock

When a vehicle and a cyclist collide, the cyclist almost always emerges worse off. Globally, more than 40,000 cyclists are killed and millions more seriously injured in road crashes.

In most of these collisions, the driver is responsible.

So, what factors are involved when a cyclist and a car collide?

The most common...

Read more: ‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road

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