On Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 12:51:21 PM UTC+1, RJH wrote:
On 21/09/2018 21:11, JNugent wrote:
On 21/09/2018 20:52, wrote:
QUOTE:
Barry Northcott pulled into the zone which is designed to protect
cyclists at a traffic lights in Whitechapel High Street and failed to
spot Karla Norman.

Jailing him for 15 months this morning, Judge Christopher Kinch QC
said: "It may be frustrating to see cyclists - swarming or otherwise -
pulling in front at junctions.

"But the box is the device placed there to protect vulnerable cyclists
from the consequences of not being seen as traffic pulls away.

*****"Motorists simply have to accept that, and it is not open to them
to decide when and where they may ignore that rule."***** EMPHASIS MINE.

He was also banned from driving for five years and 30 weeks.

END QUOTE.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...arry-Northcott


The report is opaque (which isn't a surprise).

Did the coach driver pull up behind the stationary cyclist then drive
over her when the lights changed to green?

Did he just drive over her without stopping because the lights were
green as he approached?


I'd interpret as just ploughing into the cyclist on a red light. Driving
into the cycle area at a red light is pretty routine IME - I'd guess the
driver was in some sort of autopilot mode.



We have been told many, many times that cyclists never stop at red lights.
So even if the Law Abiding coach driver was driving at 35mph in a 30mph limit it proves the 12mph cyclist was undertaking the motor vehicle.