Another cyclist jailed for killing pedestrian
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Indeed
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
+1
A needless death.
A needless death.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Can’t imagine what was going through his head after he hit her. He knew he’d caused the woman serious injury. Obviously realised to couldn’t get away with it, either that or his conscience troubled him as he handed himself in ten days later.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
+1 to him being jailed.
Whether he'll learn from it I don't know.
Whether he'll learn from it I don't know.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
It's acceptable for motorists after all. And even deliberately driving at cyclists is considered OK, or at worst a very mild offence,
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Shame sentencing doesn't happen to be the same when driving a tin box ! 
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
There are several hundred motorists convicted and sentenced to jail each year for causing death by dangerous driving or causing death by careless driving.Shame sentencing doesn't happen to be the same when driving a tin box !
It doesn't make the headlines as much because it is so much more common.
Jody
Stubborn git
Shame sentencing doesn't happen to be the same when driving a tin box !
Had he stayed at the scene, the sentence would have probably been lower or maybe even suspended.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Or been in a car, maybe? (I'm mindful of the "I was blinded by sunlight [so kept driving at 40mph until I mowed a cyclist down and killed him]" - type cases where very light punishments have been applied)
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
A life seems cheap today. 
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
"In 2016, 157 people were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving, with a further 32 convicted of causing death by careless driving whilst under the influence." According to gov.uk
Has it really increased to "several hundred" all sentenced to jail in 5 years? (The 179 above is conviction, not only jailed.)
Over 400 pedestrians are killed in collisions with motor vehicles each year. Even if half of the motorists involved are now jailed, that still seems a much lower rate than the few killer cyclists who seem to almost all get jailed. Is that fair?
This one seems fair enough, though: reportedly, a repeated reckless bit of illegal cycling that eventually caused a fatal collision.
Shame sentencing doesn't happen to be the same when driving a tin box !
I'm glad he's not the same. The cylist only got twelve months....
