Cyclists with video cameras
Sydney Morning Herald, 28 June 2012
I’ve been thinking about buying a small video camera and mounting it on my helmet or my bike’s handlebars. At the risk of sounding macabre or fatalistic (or scaring my mum), if another road user injures or kills me when I’m out cycling, I’d like them to be held responsible. Surely a reasonable request. The problem when a bicycle and a motor vehicle collide is that one party is at a massive disadvantage. In 2007, when I got hit head-on by a car that zoomed across my path through an intersection, I had to go to hospital – they had to go to the panel-beater.