JNugent wrote:

On 17/07/2013 12:53, Pristine Bruise wrote:
John Benn wrote:

"Pristine Bruise" wrote in message
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Bertie Wooster wrote:

On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:29:57 +0100, "Mrcheerful"
wrote:

Bertie Wooster wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:12:40 +0100, "Mrcheerful"
wrote:

JNugent wrote:
PW Lee in another newsgroup (and referring to a driver who had been
involved in a traffic accident):

QUOTE:
Why is he not being charged with both failure to stop after the
initial collision and dangerous driving?
He's clearly guilty of both.
ENDQUOTE

How about High Treason as well?

QUOTE:
And there is some evidence that he routinely breaks the law by
driving the wrong way along this one-way street as a shortcut - no
doubt cctv footage could be reviewed to substantiate that.
ENDQUOTE

I'd be all for that being done routinely and significant penalties
being dealt out to offenders.

Anyone care to hazard a submission on what class of vehicular
traffic most often ignores one-way working?

A psycholist told me that stories such as this only make the news
because of their extreme rarity, so the answer is NOT cars.

When was the last time you heard of a cyclist injuring three people
before crashing into a brick wall and a bus?


You are evading the question asked, how unusual.

But you had already answered the question, with, what I can only
assume, is something you can support with data.

Anyway, why should anyone want to equally compare breaking the law in
this way when it is considered a far greater crime to motor, rather
than cycle, the wrong way through a one-way system?

If you kill someone while on a bicycle, the law will treat you in exactly
the same way as if you were driving a car or lorry.

Exactly as it should be, but the potential to kill someone is less
when cycling than driving.

In that case, the cyclist should be punished more severely, since he
cannot so easily plead that it was just one of those things.

IOW, he's more likely to have been trying to do it, or at least to have
been far more reckless as to whether or not it happened.

Thank you for your replies on this issue.

I remain, however, of the opinion that, generally speaking, driving a
motor vehicle the wrong way through a one-way system is a more
reckless act that doing the same thing riding a bicycle. I believe
that to be so because (as my common sense tells me) should anything go
wrong, the driver has the potential to cause far more damage to other
people and property than the cyclist has. I also believe that all this
is already reflected by the Law in the way that transgressors in their
respective vehicles are treated (punished).

No amount of ridicule will change any of that but please feel free to
carry on anyway.

--
Alexis