Sad day. Using a vehicle to murder seems to result in zero punishment. It just doesn’t feel right. Really need some bollards or something to block off the bike lanes. Would help prevent reckless drivers casually using them and putting cyclists in harms way.
Rip to young woman.
Until you drive an HGV, you wont know the struggle of keeping mirrors and windows clean.
It sounds daft, but its not easy. In a matter of minutes you can have to pull over to reclean them again and again. Theyre just a magnet for dirty water. You would think that they would put deflectors on them.
I have a window squeegy on a pole with a squirty bottle to clean the windows. Jump out and do it.
Its s nightmare going through rain in one place, 5 min up the road its sunny and you got no vision out the mirrors.
HGV had dirty mirrors and a reversing screen that blocked part of the driver’s view.
The sentence is appalling and no it doesn’t matter that he held the victim’s hand until the ambulance came.
You can kill someone in the UK and not see prison time. Absolute insanity.
Extremely sad and a commentary on the pish cycle infrastructure we have in most cities in the uk.
I wish the “string em up and throw away the key” people would give their energies to calling for better bicycle infrastructure. Like the girls own parents.
People won’t drive any better. Separated bicycle infrastructure is the only thing that will work.
Farcical lack of justice. Cycle infrastructure needs a huge upgrade all over the UK, as well as a big shift in attitude towards cyclists. Humans are extremely fragile when put against several-tonne boxes of metal, but a lot of drivers don’t seem to give a shit really, until they actually kill somebody anyway.
Really sad story this one. Wrong place, wrong time. You can do everything right and still end up dead under a lorry.
The classic two ways of escaping any real punishment for committing homicide:
– Do it with a vehicle.
– Use the following defence to avoid jail time
> He cited Mowat’s own health issues and that he is the carer for his wife.
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Sad day. Using a vehicle to murder seems to result in zero punishment. It just doesn’t feel right. Really need some bollards or something to block off the bike lanes. Would help prevent reckless drivers casually using them and putting cyclists in harms way.
Rip to young woman.
Until you drive an HGV, you wont know the struggle of keeping mirrors and windows clean.
It sounds daft, but its not easy. In a matter of minutes you can have to pull over to reclean them again and again. Theyre just a magnet for dirty water. You would think that they would put deflectors on them.
I have a window squeegy on a pole with a squirty bottle to clean the windows. Jump out and do it.
Its s nightmare going through rain in one place, 5 min up the road its sunny and you got no vision out the mirrors.
HGV had dirty mirrors and a reversing screen that blocked part of the driver’s view.
The sentence is appalling and no it doesn’t matter that he held the victim’s hand until the ambulance came.
You can kill someone in the UK and not see prison time. Absolute insanity.
Extremely sad and a commentary on the pish cycle infrastructure we have in most cities in the uk.
I wish the “string em up and throw away the key” people would give their energies to calling for better bicycle infrastructure. Like the girls own parents.
People won’t drive any better. Separated bicycle infrastructure is the only thing that will work.
Farcical lack of justice. Cycle infrastructure needs a huge upgrade all over the UK, as well as a big shift in attitude towards cyclists. Humans are extremely fragile when put against several-tonne boxes of metal, but a lot of drivers don’t seem to give a shit really, until they actually kill somebody anyway.
Really sad story this one. Wrong place, wrong time. You can do everything right and still end up dead under a lorry.
The classic two ways of escaping any real punishment for committing homicide:
– Do it with a vehicle.
– Use the following defence to avoid jail time
> He cited Mowat’s own health issues and that he is the carer for his wife.