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home / centre for automotive safety research / Publications / List / Details Publication Details| Title | ‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road | | Authors | Ponte G, Mackenzie JRR | | Year | 2025 | | Type | Journal Article | | Abstract | When a vehicle and a cyclist collide, the cyclist almost always emerges worse off. Globally, more than 40,000 cyclists are killed and millions more seriously injured in road crashes. In most of these collisions, the driver is responsible.
So, what factors are involved when a cyclist and a car collide? The most common types of vehicle-cyclist crashes are caused by:
- drivers turning in front of cyclists
- drivers not giving right-of-way to cyclists
- drivers opening doors in front of cyclists
- drivers side-swiping cyclists by passing too close to them
- drivers rear-ending cyclists.
When drivers ‘look-but-failed-to-see’; Many drivers fail to notice cyclists until it’s too late. Sometimes this phenomenon is referred to as SMIDSY (“sorry mate, I didn’t see you”). | | Journal Title | The Conversation | | Journal Volume (Issue) | https://theconversation.com/sorry-mate-i-didnt-see-you-when-drivers-look-but-dont-see-cyclists-on-the-road-244935 | | Notes | available online https://theconversation.com/sorry-mate-i-didnt-see-you-when-drivers-look-but-dont-see-cyclists-on-the-road-244935 |
| Reference | | Ponte G, Mackenzie JRR (2025). ‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/sorry-mate-i-didnt-see-you-when-drivers-look-but-dont-see-cyclists-on-the-road-244935. |
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