Yet another death

[tom73]

Sad and pointless loss of life .... RIP
Looks to have been an update .. 3 now arrested in connection of it.
It looks to have been a hit and run.
Having once seen Mrs 73 laying in the road after one. I really do think anyone who is happy to leave a fellow human in road for dead.
Is beyond membership of the human race.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-51307187

 

[Cycleops]

I does make you wonder, truly appalling.

 

[Slick]

Terrible. Have I read between the lines wrong or does this look like a deliberate act?

 

[Pale Rider]

More likely driver error.

Driver, who knows he's either drunk, drugged, or in a nicked car, clouts cyclist, panics and drives off.

Occasionally, a driver who was none of the above does the same thing, thinks better of it, and hands themself in a few hours later.

 

[numbnuts]

And I'm hovering like a fly, waiting for the windshield on the freeway.😢
Rest in Peace

 

[Drago]

Some kinetic energy at play there to get the victim that high and so far through a laminated screen. Whatever happened, they weren't dawdling.

 

[tom73]

That is very true I’ve bullseyed a widescreen and been thrown by one and it’s bloody painful. That car was not potting along at the time either.

 

[icowden]

It also looks like it would have had to have been on the wrong side of the road given that the impact is to the driver's side. So speeding and lost control looks to be a distinct possibility.

 

[DRM]

It’s an Audi... says it all, probably speeding, as is the norm with those German saloons

 

[Pale Rider]

Three arrests which are probably the occupants of the car.

It could be they are having trouble 'remembering' who was driving, although the two who were not could be in line for the offence of allowing themselves to be carried in a vehicle they knew to be stolen.

It's usually possible to establish who was driving, although the inquiries may take some time.

The driver's DNA is often deposited on the inside of the seatbelt or on the airbag, if it was deployed.

Drivers in this scenario usually suffer tell tale minor injuries.

For example, a friction burn or bruise from the seatbelt from the top of the right shoulder diagonally across the chest is strong evidence that person was in the right hand seat.

Proving the steering wheel was in front of that person is much easier.

DNA may also be on the driving controls of the vehicle - the steering wheel, gear stick, column stalks, and so on.

But that is still only evidence, albeit strong evidence, which means there could be a jury trial.

Each of the occupants of the car will know a long stretch awaits the driver, so may take any chance of an acquittal, however small.

 

[Drago]

It’s an Audi... says it all, probably speeding, as is the norm with those German saloons

I had an Audi give way to me on the bike, most inconsiderately the other day. It was obviously stolen.

 

[lazybloke]

Wondering why the beeb call it a suspected hit-and-run? Strange choice of language.

 

[hatler]

As opposed to a deliberate running over possibly ?

 

[DRM]

I had an Audi give way to me on the bike, most inconsiderately the other day. It was obviously stolen.

They might have just got it and weren’t quite sure of the correct driving techniques when driving one of these things

 

[Drago]

Wondering why the beeb call it a suspected hit-and-run? Strange choice of language.

This is the same Beeb that calls terrorists "militants" and illegal immigrants "migrants". They're so far to the left they can only walk in circles.