On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 19:34:03 UTC, John Smith wrote:


There is no 'improvement' that you need to make to English law, to plug
this 'loophole', for there is no 'loophole' here. What there is, however,
is yet another manifestation of the institutionalized culture of impunity
under which car drivers are allowed - sometimes literally [1] - to get
away with murder when the victim is a cyclist.

One can be certain that had the injured party been the Chief Constable's son then the wriggling perp would have been tracked down and jailed - no problem.