Guilty or Not Guilty

[Deleted member 26715]

What caused the front rider to stop? - the illegally driven Landrover.

Which bit was illegal?

 

[Roseland triker]

95%?

Sigh… Why am I bothering?

At least 95% of cyclists are bad and dangerous here. Drive down here and see for yourself.

 

[AndyRM]

96.7% of statistics are made up on the spot.

 

[Roseland triker]

Which bit was illegal?

None of it..

Load of bull

 

[Deleted member 26715]

None of it..

Load of bull

I would say it was very inconsiderate, bordering on the dangerous, however all the issues were self inflicted by the cyclists.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Silly man. Should of prosecuted the cyclists for offensive language etc.

Should HAVE.

I don't normally correct that common mistake but there was nothing else worth addressing in your post.

 

[Randomnerd]

<<BBC Radio Four Studio, Salford, a moment ago>>

….technicians tapping away at complex keyboards…somewhere in the midday sky, satellites scud across the northern hemisphere…in the same continent, surgeons sew up the bomb-torn limbs of orphans…



Sarah Montague switches on her mike after a quick sip of water and a moment in which to clear her throat. Gordon, assistant producer, runs the live feed and her desk module light glows green: “…we are going over live now, to our south-west transport correspondent…Hello, Trevor. Welcome to The World At One. Now, give us your considered opinion about the moment Harry, Jane and Stella were cycling along a road and met a Land Rover, and how the whole thing turned up on a quiet cycling forum. Give us your expert opinion…”

“Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh”

“Thanks Trevor. Immigration….”

 

[matticus]

I would say it was very inconsiderate, bordering on the dangerous, however all the issues were self inflicted by the cyclists.

Hence he was prosecuted for Careless Driving. Seems reasonable, no?

What the cyclists did after the incident of Careless Driving is irrelevant - and no big deal. "Woman falls gently into ditch." BONG!

 

[Poacher]

I wonder how that Landy driver would have reacted if he encountered, say, a recumbent trike.

 

[newfhouse]

Drive down here and see for yourself.

Not sure you're best suited to be a tourism ambassador.

 

[Milkfloat]

Which bit was illegal?

Careless Driving

 

[mjr]

: “…we are going over live now, to our south-west transport correspondent…

If you think Northamptonshire is in the southwest, you may be the BBC's geography correspondent...

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Careless Driving

We will never know as a judge was not able to decide

 

[mjr]

We will never know as a judge was not able to decide

A judge can throw an unjust case out, can't they?

 

[MontyVeda]

Is there no thought about prosecuting the first rider who actually caused the event which caused the rider to fall? If you take the LandRover out of the equation, the actual 'accident' was caused by

a) the front rider stopping
b) the second rider riding too close
c) having a clipped in moment

So although the pass by the LandRover was not nice & more consideration could have taken place

the event was the driving, not the fall.
The driver was prosecuted for their driving, not for causing an accident.