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2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Showing posts with label death on the road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death on the road. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 November 2017

Where's the outrage – three motorists in a week jailed for killing pedestrians and cyclists?



 Charlie Aliston jailed for for 18 months 


Back in September the jailing of Charlie Alliston for killing a pedestrian through cycling dangerously provoked huge media coverage. Not for one moment defending Alliston but the number of pedestrians killed by cyclists in 2016 was very few compared to the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed due to collisions with motors vehicles of all types.  
  


(3rd November 2017)



 



Here are three motorists jailed for dangerous driving just this last week – one pedestrian killed, one cyclist killed and one cyclist left with a broken spine. You have to search through the news to find them. There is no media storm over these three examples of dangerous and in two cases of lethal driving. 

Commented on in this opinion piece:The light sentencing of a 'road rage' driver is sadly all too familiar to cyclists

We now have the technology to make our roads safer for all users – enforcing rules on speeding, stopping at traffic lights, not driving thoughtlessly and recklessly etc. Sadly the political will is not there as this story on speed cameras in the Guardian today illustrates:   

Three motorists jailed for dangerous driving this week but only half of Britain's speed cameras are active!