CYCLIST REFUSED TO GIVE WAY TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED MAN & GUIDE DOG, CRASHED INTO HIM

A video emeregd online showing a pedestrian who is allegedly visually impaired, being hit by a cyclist who had purportedly refused to give way to him.

Facebook page Beh Chia Lor – Singapore Road posted a video by netizens Thomas and Eve earlier today (25 April) showing the incident.

They captioned their video: “Cyclist refuses to give way to visually impaired pedestrian with guide dog, and hits into him. Pedestrian urges graciousness and understanding from Singaporeans on shared paths.”

In the video, the visually impaired man was seen walking with his guide dog along a pavement beside a couple of women to his left.

The cyclist was then seen riding straight towards him without stopping, and ended up crashing into the man as his guide dog turned back around to look at its owner.

Beh Chia Lor added in the comments that “For those asking, the pedestrian has 100% blindness disability and has to rely on the guide dog for walking.”

Netizens’ comments (SIC)

1. I reckon this could be a body camera worn by the visually impaired pedestrian and its a narrow path so the guide dog be leading him/her to walk in the middle. Just guessing..
2. I think the cyclist also needs a guide dog to accompany him. Can tell he’s blind also.
3. Isnt this voluntarily causing hurt? Should make a police report
4. Let’s share the pathway what’s wrong with giving way especially pedestrian has a guide dog ???
5. This is a very narrow path and you can see that there were 2 persons walking in a single file on the left while the cyclist was approaching on the right.
   The video showed that suddenly, the videoing person went into the right to overtake the 2 petsons in front and the cyclist had stopped padding but did not brake in time and came into contact with the videographer.
   Lastly, after the contact, there were no significant disorientation of the camera indicating that the contact had not caused a major accident.
   In this case, it is plausible both parties need to bear parts of the responsibility of causing this accident.
   My humble opinion only.
   • Sia la why you never work for CSI
6. I meet many cyclist like this – Some don’t care, some unaware: Benefit of doubt – he is unaware of what a guide dog is and probably wonder why walking a dog this way.