Cyclists aren't looking good on the Guardian's landing page today

[jefmcg]

First there is the Charlie Alliston sentence, then this

Ambulance crew say cyclist impeded them after they arrived to treat a dying 29-year-old who had crashed his motorbike into a lamp post.
(I was first exercised by the fact they kept calling him a cyclist, but they used "drivers" in a report on similar behaviour, so at least they a consistent.)

 

[srw]

The landing page headline says "man".

And on Saturday, we had a whole supplement, with its own complete section. MOst of hte articles (very sensible) are still online: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/cycling

 

[growingvegetables]

First there is the Charlie Alliston sentence, then this

Ambulance crew say cyclist impeded them after they arrived to treat a dying 29-year-old who had crashed his motorbike into a lamp post.
(I was first exercised by the fact they kept calling him a cyclist, but they used "drivers" in a report on similar behaviour, so at least they a consistent.)

Working link

 

[chriswoody]

And the Guardian story relates to Germany, where it is an offence not to render aid.

It's been quite an issue over here of late. There was an infamous case recently on the Autobahn where drivers refused to create an emergency corridor to let ambulance and fire crews through to an incident. The article also links to another similar story, this time a bus crash in Bavaria. Utterly sick and disgraceful behaviour.

https://www.thelocal.de/20170317/autobahn-drivers-reported-for-blocking-rescue-and-insulting-medics

https://www.thelocal.de/20170704/an...rgency-workers-in-fatal-bus-accident-autobahn

Being as the vast majority of folk around here cycle it's not really that relevant a detail to the story. You might as well have said the pedestrian or car driver for all that it adds to the story.