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Bike Accidents and the Value of Garmin/Strava Ride Data (www.thebikinglawyer.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/bicycling@lemmy.world

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Side note: drivers who lie about how accidents happen (and not just having a fuzzy memory, but flat-out lying), should face severe consequences.

Lives are ruined by bad drivers, and then to falsely blame the victim is just evil.

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[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't mean it to be kind. I meant that the driver could actually be that detached from reality.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

@limelight79 @Showroom7561 Yeah: 'I looked and they weren't there, therefore the only possible way I could have hit them is if they did this weird and implausible manoeuvre'

People will invent stories to tell themselves to feel good. They then will tell everyone else the story like it is fact.

People make for terrible evidence.

Log data with a computer. It is much harder to trick yourself this way.