While she is clearly a dumbass for not just parking and waiting, why is the bike ride taking up all of the lanes in both directions? Was the street blocked off and this lady ignored it?
Why was there an oncoming car in her lane?
This really needs context.
I have no official context. If I had to guess this was some kind of organized night bike event. There were multiple cars on the road so likely not a closed course thing, probably organized only on social media. The car on the wrong side of the road was probably trying to go around the cyclists. The cyclist were likely in the wrong, but as a driver she definitely should have turned off of that street and gone around.
Not sure how she could turn off and go around when she has no idea why there is a massive amount of bikes, where they are coming from, or where they are going. Going around requires more information than someone surprised by a massive number of surprise bikes would have.
I'm not opposed to the idea, and I do think just stopping and waiting it out is the best option. She was wrong to just drive forward through the crowd of bikes, but maybe she hoped she would get past the mass of bikes faster?
But expecting someone to 'just go around' is pretty dismissive of someone's confusion when completely surrounded in a situation they don't understand. Like what if she just needed to turn left and go two blocks?
The cyclists should pull out guns and shoot the driver in this situation. After all, how can you expect them to do any differently? They suddenly see a driver driving through their parade route, scaring and confusing all of them, endangering all their lives? Sure, they could go around, but we can't judge them harshly if they just kill the driver or set the vehicle on fire.
It's called a parade.
If a bunch of cars did the same thing would you call that a parade?
That's literally what happens in parades.
So if a bunch of street racers drove in all the lanes you would be fine with it and call it a parade?
Would you?
Of course not.
I mean Ive been a part of many of these in Orlando and the point was to never cross into incoming traffic. So she sort of has a point. That is super dangerous. The idea isn't to give people who hate cyclist more fuel to hate cyclist. Have respect for all types of traffic.
Honestly, this was fine. She went through slowly and she's understandably annoyed. She doesn't her car being hit.
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