Cycle box death judge gets it right for once

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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