US cyclist charged after pedestrian death.

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Also in today's paper, they were suggeting that gaol sentances for
dangerous driving had increased as a % of those charged.


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PiledHigher

PiledHigher Wrote:
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Good. The cyclist broke the rules and now he's going to be judged by
his peers.

Also good is the fact that this is newsworthy. Newsworthy items are
items which are unusual, abberant from the norm. Nip over to aus.cars
and you won't find links from overseas newspapers about motorists being
charged with manslaughter becuase that's something which happens all the
time.


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EuanB

EuanB Wrote:
Good. The cyclist broke the rules and now he's going to be judged by
his peers.

Also good is the fact that this is newsworthy. Newsworthy items are
items which are unusual, abberant from the norm. Nip over to aus.cars
and you won't find links from overseas newspapers about motorists being
charged with manslaughter becuase that's something which happens all the
time.


Unfortunately here's another story (from NZ) of cyclists not setting a
good example. The article lacks some detail, but whoever was
responsible for this avoidable situation sure ain't setting a good
example to younger cyclists.

Road-hog cyclists to blame
http://tinyurl.com/c8jwv


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cfsmtb

cfsmtb Wrote:
Unfortunately here's another story (from NZ) of cyclists not setting a
good example. The article lacks some detail, but whoever was
responsible for this avoidable situation sure ain't setting a good
example to younger cyclists.

Road-hog cyclists to blame
http://tinyurl.com/c8jwv

Lacks some detail, horribly written, no clear message about what was
being done wrong /should be done correctly.

The injured cyclist may also have been potentially at fault.


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PiledHigher

PiledHigher Wrote:
Lacks some detail, horribly written, no clear message about what was
being done wrong /should be done correctly.


maybe they were riding Schwit Stingrays, just like in the TV ad.

"Traffic calming" that narrows a nice wide easily shared road is always
bad for cyclists.


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aeek

PiledHigher Wrote:
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Also in today's paper, they were suggeting that gaol sentances for
dangerous driving had increased as a % of those charged.
what is an un-marked cross walk ??


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MikeyOz

MikeyOz wrote:
PiledHigher Wrote:
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Also in today's paper, they were suggeting that gaol sentances for
dangerous driving had increased as a % of those charged.
what is an un-marked cross walk ??

A road?