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>>Lucky bugger. Looking at the road markings it's not obvious whether it was the car or the truck that was in the wrong - unless Russia subscribes to 'Priorite a Droite'.
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>My rule of thumb in situations like that is "right of weight" :-/ The cyclist would lose, either way :(
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>That reminded me of an urban legend I heard a while back. Somewhere in Eastern Europe (Bucharest?) there was a gang initiation that went like this:
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>- there is a large, busy traffic circle/plaza in the middle of the city
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>- various feeder roads lead radially into/out of the circle
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>- wait until the middle of the night
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>- candidate is given a fast car, on a feeder road some distance from the circle
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>- candidate floors it towards the circle. Must be doing minimum 200 km/h when entering the circle
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>- blast across the circle and exit onto another feeder road on the other side
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>If you survive, you're in.
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I remember being in a taxi in Rome in the early hours. The driver, doing about 40mph, went through 6 red lights without slowing down (but like dirving up 5th. Ave against all the reds). He told me that everyone driving at that time in the morning knew that those on the main road ignored red lights!
