Manchester PCSO cyclist victim of hit-and-run

"big dummy" is correct in his assumption !

Why are cyclists treated as lesser beings ?

Cyclingsilk.blogspot commenter posted a link to a study regarding Motorists and cyclists which clearly shows a bias against Vunerable road Users !

Riding around the cheshire lanes i rarely had problems but on the wider metro streets the animals behave like they are looking for confrontations and deserve all that the law should be able to impose IF THEY DID THEIR JOB !

Aaargh!

Obviously it's impossible to sympathise with pondlife drivers.

But if someone who wasn't a PCSO wandered into a police station and said they'd been knocked off their bike and were a bit bruised, and the driver involved had driven off, the response would broadly be "How fascinating, go away". A man-hunt would not ensue.

After the recent One Show piece about Helmet Cams, she probably got out to check the cyclist hadn't got one on before driving off

I think so - If they're given lights I can't imagine that they wouldn't use them... and if they haven't been given them then that's not very good at all...

@Roadkill yeah I'm feeling pretty light headed up here I can tell you - wasn't having a pop though, thought that was a perfectly reasonable comment. In fact one well worth following up on.

I know the area well.
my money is on no insurance and no license.
and this is at a time when GMP are looking at reducing the number of officers in traffic

lol - my first draft had the obvious "but this doesn't condone" statement but I thought that it was obvious....

Just for the record my point was about what wasn't written in the police press release, aligned with my own experiences in the same locality on the same evening...

In future I will prove my membership of the human being club and not assume it

In the meantime you can enjoy your altitude training in the moral hi-ground

that's definitely the point bikeandy61 - driving away from the scene of an accident whoever is at fault is a crime.

Nice comments folks. Now I appreciate the irony after posting with glee about Mr Spin Doctor getting his bikes nicked. It's still a cyclist at the end of the day. If she failed to run lights, well what can you say.

It still doesn't condone the actions of the driver. With the best will in the world, accidents DO happen. Getting out of the car and then driving off is nothing short of callous criminal behaviour in my book.

We were driving to the Track World Cup on Friday night and saw 2 PCSOs riding in hi-visibilty (sic) clothing but without any lights...

Strange that they didn't mention lights...

Maybe all Police cyclists should wear headcams and should we presume the PCSO had had training. A balance of skills and ability here perhaps between a reaction to the driver's failure to yield may have minimised injury but in failing to anticipate the movement of a large vehicle from a side turning across her path there was a crash.

I hope GM Police don't see another Police Cyclist hit by motor vehicle as a case to pull cops off bikes.

At least the car will be 'marked'

hmm, wonder if the police will take this more seriously as it was a semi-one of their own?