On Aug 24, 5:00*pm, "Mr Pounder"
wrote:
"Simon Mason" wrote in message

. uk...





"A motorist who caused the death of a cyclist by failing to stop at
traffic lights has been jailed for 20 weeks. Brian Creasey, 51, knocked
down cyclist Ian Hammel near BAE in Samlesbury on the morning of September
29 last year. Engineer Mr Hammel, 53, from Penwortham, was on his way to
work at BAE when the collision occurred on the A59, near the entrance of
the site.

He died 10 days later in hospital.

Creasey, of Fulwood Row, Preston, admitted causing death by careless
driving when he appeared at Preston Crown Court yesterday. The judge
rejected a claim by Creasey a squeal of his brakes had caused him to panic
and therefore accelerate, going through the lights on amber on the A59.

Creasey had told the court he had thought there was enough time to get
through the light while it was on amber and added he saw Mr Hammel's bike
at the very last moment."

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/moto..._cyclist_death...

--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/

Anybody who rides a bicycle on the A59 Samlesbury is stupid. I know the
road, it is a very fast road.
The cyclist just should have not been there.


According to the comments, the dead man crossed the road on foot and
so was totally innocent.

--
Simon Mason