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This is a thread about cyclist scum. Nice attempt to Stevejack though. Although not entirely appropriate.
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As for the real issue - I have already posted my view. If the case if proven, then this man's actions were appalling. But that no more makes all cyclist 'scum' than all bus passengers 'scum' because one murdered someone once.
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#2003
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One can be charged with manslaughter but we don't know if the latter can.
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Not even a tiny bit embarassed by your gags?
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Now here is a case from earlier this year.
A speeding driver who was sending a text message when she hit and killed a teenage cyclist was today jailed for four years. Hotel manager Kiera Coultas, 25, was replying to a message on her mobile phone when she hit scaffolder Jordan Wickington, 19. The teenager, who was not wearing a cycle helmet, stopped at the traffic lights momentarily and went through them on red. Apart from showing our cyclist chums (I hope) the perils of going through red lights (as if they need to be told), it also shows that car drivers are subject (rightly imo) to punitive law. Let's hope that - if guilty - this particular cyclist scum gets jail, not a fine. Anything else would not be justice.
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There was no gag
You seem to want to think it's OK for cyclist scum to kill someone. |
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The cyclist jumping red lights is wrong, but it doesnt excuse a driver reading text messages while driving a motorized 2 tonne lump of steel. |
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I wonder if the driver would've been killed if the situation were reversed? No, thought not.
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![]() Pathetic comment.
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This place is full of utter loonies. Best ignore them.
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#2016
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As Steve said there is a very specific motoring offence (in the UK) - 'causing death by dangerous driving'. Meanwhile if a cyclist kills someone no such charge can be applied. The father of a 17-year-old girl who was fatally injured in a collision with a cyclist has said it is "laughable" the man has only been fined. Mick Bennett said Jason Howard should have faced manslaughter charges and been jailed for several years over Rhiannon Bennett's death in April 2007. Howard was an "arrogant and vile little man", Mr Bennett said outside court. Howard, 36, of Buckingham, was fined £2,200 on Tuesday after being convicted of dangerous cycling in the town. The law needs changing urgently.
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I really don't understand why it needs a different charge and why manslaughter couldn't be applied (same for death by dangerous driving, really).
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Our law currently states for the motoring offence a person is to be regarded as driving dangerously if the standard of driving falls far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver and it would be obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous.. You can see simply from the framing of the words (and this is a summary) that this is a very different thing to manslaughter. We need a similar law for cycling dangerously.
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I'm a cyclist, but people who cycle on pavements or treat pedestrians or other road users as people who are an irritating obstruction really make me angry.
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I agree that people should be accountable for their actions -- the change in the law of course must include people running on pavements who may knock someone over. |
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