CCTV shows boy, 4, mown down by cyclist - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-41842047
Another cyclist jailed
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I think I read somewhere that this was another brainless brakeless wonder, but I didn't find the report again by searching newsnow because of all the reports of cyclists being mown down by motorists... so I guess at least it seems it's being reported somewhere when cyclists are hurt too, which hasn't always been the case.
Racing roadkill
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I’ve got no time for the idiots that ride like this. There’s a time and a place, when there’s peds about, isn’t it. With great powwwerrrr comes great responsibility. They need to take heed of this.
jefmcg
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Slick
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Couldn't even read the article when I saw the headlines and the picture. Something doesn't seem right.
smutchin
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Why is it that cyclists always “mow down” pedestrians, but cars are “in a collision with” cyclists?
jefmcg
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I've seen "cyclist collided with lorry" much more often than the reverse.
oldwheels
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Cars never or very rarely collide with cyclists. Mostly careless cyclists collide with cars. Don’t start shouting at me I only report what the media ( who could not possibly have made it up) say.
jefmcg
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Just read the article i linked above. A preschooler was crushed under the wheel of a van, and the article styles that "knocked down".
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
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- Scotland
See also the case of 5yr old Lennon Toland, killed on a pavement by a van driver accessing a makeshift car park. Council subsequently installed bollards to block it but they were ripped out by vandals and that company's vans are still using it. Nobody was even charged, let alone tried.
smutchin
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- The Red Enclave
It would be funny if it weren't so appalling.
Pale Rider
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The driver was found not guilty, thus you need to be careful how you describe the incident.
smutchin
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- The Red Enclave
He used his van to kill a child who wasn’t even in the road. He’s an utter daffodil.
If they couldn’t convict him for that it’s because they brought the wrong charges.
ETA: Highway Code
Rule 145
You MUST NOT drive on or over a pavement, footpath or bridleway except to gain lawful access to property, or in the case of an emergency.
Laws HA 1835 sect 72 & RTA 1988 sect 34
If a cyclist can get 27 weeks in prison for injuring a child when riding where he shouldn’t, how on earth is it possible that a driver can be found not guilty for crushing a child to death when driving where he shouldn’t? There is something seriously farked up about this, and the highly politicised rhetoric used in reporting the cases hints at the underlying problem, namely a strong anti-cyclist agenda. It’s nothing to do with being careful how you report things, it’s all about absolving the mistakes of motorists.
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