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Old September 14th 17, 12:02 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Default Another woman mown down by a cyclist

On 14/09/2017 07:08, MrCheerful wrote:
On 14/09/2017 00:47, JNugent wrote:
On 13/09/2017 21:20, Simon Jester wrote:
On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 8:58:58 PM UTC+1, MrCheerful wrote:

Happily a woman has the incident on camera, and there must be plenty of
cameras in that area in any case, so the cyclist may be vindicated yet,
but not on the other charges he faces.

So you agree the cyclist is innocent until proven guilty and the
pedestrian could have mitigated her head injury by wearing a helmet.


Mr C had failed to take account of a highly significant part of the
news report. The lady victim was crossing a road into which the turd
on a bike was turning.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you what that means.



I was giving the benefit of doubt to the planet saving cyclist, the old
lady might have sprinted into the road or, or been barged into his path
or he might have shouted 'get out of the way' twice, he might have been
in an important race, or strava event, delivering a pizza, jumping a red
light for safety, or something else important cyclists do in London.


The old ones are normally much easier to avoid. But if you are 1 meter
from the pavement and a pedestrian steps out, without looking or giving
any warning there is little that can be done.

Perhaps we should wait for some evidence before we execute the cyclist?
Although the site of Tyburn Tree was just up the road.
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