On 21/09/2018 20:52, wrote:
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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.

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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?

Or something else?