Child mown down by hi-speed pavement cyclist
Guess what? She cleared off quick. On a pavement despite an adjacent cycle
path. Oscar Sowden was walking home from Caversham Festival last Sunday with his family when the cyclist ploughed into him at speed on the footpath running beneath Reading Bridge. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/ne...eding-cyclist/ |
Child mown down by hi-speed pavement cyclist
Mrcheerful wrote:
Guess what? She cleared off quick... Shameful, the least she could have done was to kiss the child's bruised right ear better before she left. |
Child mown down by hi-speed pavement cyclist
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:48:52 +0100, Alexis
wrote: Mrcheerful wrote: Guess what? She cleared off quick... Shameful, the least she could have done was to kiss the child's bruised right ear better before she left. =====Quote===== This week borough transport leader Cllr Tony Page backed the Sowdens and said the law is clear that it is an offence for anyone over 16 to cycle on pavements. =====/Quote===== Is it legal for anyone under 16 to cycle on Reading pavements? |
Child mown down by hi-speed pavement cyclist
Bertie Wooster wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:48:52 +0100, Alexis wrote: Mrcheerful wrote: Guess what? She cleared off quick... Shameful, the least she could have done was to kiss the child's bruised right ear better before she left. =====Quote===== This week borough transport leader Cllr Tony Page backed the Sowdens and said the law is clear that it is an offence for anyone over 16 to cycle on pavements. =====/Quote===== Is it legal for anyone under 16 to cycle on Reading pavements? Cllr Page is probably mixing up what he considers reasonable and what the law is actually clear on. On a related issue, though, I found this article published last year interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...vement-offence The article is headed "Cycling on the pavement is not always an offence" and includes this bit: "Reported injuries from collisions between pedestrians and cyclists are low. A study for the DfT in 1993 found that there were "no real factors to justify excluding cyclists from pedestrianised areas", and there must at least be some parallels with shared use paths." |
Child mown down by hi-speed pavement cyclist
On 21/07/2013 15:30, Alexis wrote:
Bertie Wooster wrote: On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:48:52 +0100, Alexis wrote: Mrcheerful wrote: Guess what? She cleared off quick... Shameful, the least she could have done was to kiss the child's bruised right ear better before she left. =====Quote===== This week borough transport leader Cllr Tony Page backed the Sowdens and said the law is clear that it is an offence for anyone over 16 to cycle on pavements. =====/Quote===== Is it legal for anyone under 16 to cycle on Reading pavements? Cllr Page is probably mixing up what he considers reasonable and what the law is actually clear on. On a related issue, though, I found this article published last year interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...vement-offence The article is headed "Cycling on the pavement is not always an offence" and includes this bit: "Reported injuries from collisions between pedestrians and cyclists are low. A study for the DfT in 1993 found that there were "no real factors to justify excluding cyclists from pedestrianised areas", and there must at least be some parallels with shared use paths." ....in the opinion of a Guardian journo. We all know how valuable that is. |
Child mown down by hi-speed pavement cyclist
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Child mown down by hi-speed pavement cyclist
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:28:01 +0100, "Mrcheerful"
wrote: Guess what? She cleared off quick. On a pavement despite an adjacent cycle path. Oscar Sowden was walking home from Caversham Festival last Sunday with his family when the cyclist ploughed into him at speed on the footpath running beneath Reading Bridge. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/ne...eding-cyclist/ It could have been Porky Chapman wearing a wig??? |
Child mown down by hi-speed pavement cyclist
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:33:27 +0100, JNugent wrote:
snip ...in the opinion of a Guardian journo. We all know how valuable that is. Indeed - there is at least on Guardian journalist who is a raving psycholist. I would take anything he writes with a pinch of salt. |
Child mown down by hi-speed pavement cyclist
Paul Cummins wrote:
In article , (Mrcheerful) wrote: Oscar Sowden was walking home from Caversham Festival last Sunday with his family when the cyclist ploughed into him at speed on the footpath running beneath Reading Bridge. 1) It's not a footpath, it's a bridleway along the edge of the thames 2) What was a five year old doing there alone, unsupervised by an adult. 3) As it's a bridleway, there is no need for an adjacent cycle path, and there isn't one. So it is OK to mow down unaccompanied children ? In any case it would appear that the crash happened on the bridge, where the pavement has a cycle path. |
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