Bus driver disciplined for attempting to run over cyclist

[Crankarm]

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Censure-for-busway-driver-after-bike-crash-14102011.htm

The driver should be sacked and prosecuted both by the police and the Health and Safety Executive.

 

[ian turner]

Hmm is it a criminal offence to cycle on those tracks ? Just wondering if the cyclist will be prosecuted.

 

[wiggydiggy]

2 wrongs dont make a right.

If a child had been walking in that lane, should the driver have mown them down?

The cyclist should not have been there but to have some chunt of a bus driver do that is unacceptable.

 

[MontyVeda]

the cyclist does seem like a bit of a tit riding there in the first place... plonker!

 

[Hip Priest]

2 wrongs dont make a right.

If a child had been walking in that lane, should the driver have mown them down?

The cyclist should not have been there but to have some chunt of a bus driver do that is unacceptable.

Correct.

You're not allowed to ride a mobility scooter on the M1, but if I came across some doing just that, I wouldn't deliberately drive into them.

 

[HLaB]

The Cambridge news won't load for me but my first question would be why was the cyclist there? but Wiggydiggy's summing up seems spot on to me.

 

[style over speed]

The Cambridge news won't load for me but my first question would be why was the cyclist there? but Wiggydiggy's summing up seems spot on to me.

because surfacing work was being done blocking the path I believe, the original story had some reference to this anyway.

imho that bus driver should have been prosecuted for dangerous driving.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I think the article mentions it happens a lot, even when no resurfacing is going on?

Its like that other thread, what are cyclists doing to help themselves? In Cambridge I'd say 'not a lot'

 

[Camgreen]

Correct decision for the company to take action against the driver in my opinion and probably this should also be followed up with criminal proceedings. According to the article the cyclist appears to have been visible on the track and the suggestion is that the driver had the opportunity to stop in good time, so clearly is at fault.

As to the cyclist; most users of the busway are well aware of where they can and cannot ride. The surface on the cycle track may be an issue along this particular stretch, but this doesn't give the cyclist the right to ride on the bus rail, which is an offence. The cyclist should be accountable for their actions too here and be prosecuted by the relevant authority.

 

[gaz]

busway drivers have encountered cyclists pedalling along the tracks a number of times, sometimes wearing earphones.

What has this got to do with any of this?

 

[pshore]

Disciplinary action was probably a written warning. If the driver was sacked I think they would have said so.

I personally think the seriousness of the incident requires at the very least a comment by the Police, or HSE.

 

[bricksmasher]

Hmm

well I live in cambridge and cycled along the CYCLEPATH witch runs along side the busyway,

a few things:

1. Sign clearly states between where that cyclist was NOT to cycle there
2.There is no path for cyclists to go down that section yet, so any cyclist travelling along the busway lane is asking for trouble
3. He was wearing headphones, which isnt an issue until he decided to cycle along the busway and not the cycleway hence not hearing the bus
4. The driver should have noticed and sounds of it acted as badly as the cyclist, both deserve to be in trouble

 

[Glow worm]

Bus Driver - Idiot
Cyclist - Idiot

Same old same old from Britain's most miserable, over rated town.

 

[wiggydiggy]

What has this got to do with any of this?

If the cyclist was where they were supposed to be - nothing.

As they weren't then by wearing headphones it may have stopped them from hearing the bus waiting for them to get out of the guided bus lane and onto to dedicated cycle path where they belonged.

 

[JamieRegan]

If the cyclist was where they were supposed to be - nothing.

As they weren't then by wearing headphones it may have stopped them from hearing the bus waiting for them to get out of the guided bus lane and onto to dedicated cycle path where they belonged.

Your answer should have been 'nothing'.

He leapt from his bike because he DID hear the bus. If anything, he'd have been better off ramping the volume up a notch.