I do find that I often have to turn off Jeremy Vine at lunchtimes because it's essentially the Daily Wail on the radio with some of the folk who phone in, and the subjects they often (always) cover. But he does seem to have taken to cycling in a big way (did he cycle before?) and tweeted yesterday about being shouted at for being out in the road, and the irony that this was the same day his editor got knocked off by someone opening a car door into him.
This morning he added to that, "Story of Editor knocked off his bike by a car door gets even better. Driver said, “I cannot be guilty as my keys were not in the ignition”"
Marvellous. And bizarrely (not so much, it's social media) people then attacking him with lines like "It's never the fault of cyclists with you is it" and even people saying it was the fault of the cyclist, or a shared fault, as he should have anticipated a car door being opened into him.
Now obviously you do need to ride anticipating things, but often stuff like car doors can happen in an instant with no opportunity to react, and sometimes riding in a way to avoid car doors leads to conflict with moving vehicles, and often the infrastructure, especially to be used by inexperienced riders, puts you in exactly the position that's worst for car doors.
What is wrong with people? (links back to that good Guardian article yesterday I guess)
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