Police target South Australian cyclists

beerwolf Wrote:
Red light runners irritate me too, but the actual real harm they do is
only likely to be to themselves.

Harsh observation, but probably has some validity to it.

On the subject of cycling incidents we've all probably seen some
terrible bunch crashes either on the telly or in real life, but they
totally pale when compared to the carnage that can occur when things go
wrong and motorised vehicles & humans are involved. Any observation of
the RTA and TAC daily stats will bear that up, as will terrible
incidents on Florida's Interstate 4 in the US.

To paraphrase a article in yesterdays Age, I've never heard of a
similar cycling mishap that involved a combination of ten accidents,
involving 70 bicycles, that killed four people and injured 38 others.
With five of them in critical condition, according to the authorities,
with the largest of the accidents involved 43 bicycles.


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