18yo mown down on pavement in Barking

[matticus]

I first saw this as a CCTV video posted on twitter. The driver flies down the pavement - behind parked cars - so fast that it's hard to believe what you're seeing.

Then I read about the results. Just sickening https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lon...sion-teenager-killed-met-police-b1188143.html

For some reason this incident has really got to me: in the same few days we've had this, a death on the M20, Iain Duncan Smith story about how "Cyclists should be driven off the roads", and media headlines dominated by a young foolish celeb who fell off a hotel balcony, no mention of innocents being killed daily.

 

[Arjimlad]

It was horrific footage .. medical episode perhaps? I daresay it will come out in due course.

 

[Drago]

Horrific.

Mandatory speed limiters would have at least kept that within the speed limit, giving the victim a 50:50 chance of survival.

 

[sheddy]

You may have read about the drugged driver following too close, who chose to mount the pavement rather than crash into the car in front, seriously injuring a cyclist.

Suspended sentence.

 

[Drago]

Suspended sentence.

That'll learn him. Not.