I nearly killed a couple of cyclists today.

I was driving home from work tonight. I drive on country roads and that means lots of twisty bits and no street lights. It even had patchy fog, which meant that my speed was down and my lights were dipped.

Suddenly there is a dark shape in the road ahead of me and I slam on the brakes. There is a slight muddy surface and, with the damp, my tyres lose traction and I skidd towards the dark shapes. I am just making up my mind to hit the shapes, rather than heroically plough into the oncoming car on the other side of the road, when the tyres bite and I manage to stop.

The shapes are two cyclists on jump bikes (BMX), wearing black hoodies that are pulled up because it is cold. No lights. No reflectors.

I pull past them, role the window down and bib.

"Sorry mate" they say.

"Don't appologise, just fix your bloody lights".

If I had room for two bikes and cyclists in the back I would have given them a lift. But that is not the point.

The other night I replied to someone on answers who was whining about lights because he was afraid that they were gay and he would get the micky taken out of him.

ROADKILL!!!!!

So can we, as cyclists do something to prevent these pillocks from ending up as a statistic. Perhaps a mass night ride from various city centers or similar. I don't know, but even if we don't promote the idea of lights, we should help to keep them off of the unlit country roads.

Luck