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Bedfordshire police fail another person on two wheels

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  • August 23, 2022 at 7:31 am #32239
    TheBillder

    This would be pretty shocking if not for the context we all know. I wonder if some forces are not so much institutionally anti-cyclist as institutionally pro-car.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-62378217

    An amazing, tenacious fight from the victim’s partner, who has never let this go. I wonder if I could have kept going as long, dealing with bereavement as well as the system simply whitewashing the driver.

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  • August 25, 2022 at 3:20 pm #996631
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    AlsoSomniloquism

    Such a tragedy because the

    Such a tragedy because the driver couldn’t be bothered to drive less then a mile to the next traffic island to turn around. 

    August 23, 2022 at 12:44 pm #996629
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    chrisonabike
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    …And now, an element of “oh, well, he’s about to retire and it wouldn’t be fair to go after him now” on the police officer…

    This is such a standard trope (“unfortunately the officer has since resigned / retired…”) it wouldn’t surprise me to find it in a police procedural manual somewhere… except they’re not that stupid, surely.

    August 23, 2022 at 11:40 am #996627
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    TheBillder

    ktache wrote:

    ktache wrote:

    For me the takeaway line was that at the very delayed interview with the driver (suspect?) was attended by the husband of a granddaughter who just happened to be a police officer.


    Reminds me of the Month Python line “I noticed that the man holding the thermonuclear device was in fact the Chief Constable of the area”. Bedfordshire mentioned in that sketch (Pirhana Brothers) as well. Life imitating art…

    August 23, 2022 at 11:38 am #996625
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    brooksby

    That story is so awful. It’s

    That story is so awful. It’s terrible that the family have had to push so hard to get justice and a prosecution even attempted. And now, an element of “oh, well, he’s about to retire and it wouldn’t be fair to go after him now” on the police officer. I wonder whether the driver (too ill to be interviewed for eight months!!?) had more of that undiagnosed dementia that seems to be going around…?

    August 23, 2022 at 10:56 am #996623
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    ktache

    For me the takeaway line was

    For me the takeaway line was that at the very delayed interview with the driver (suspect?) was attended by the husband of a granddaughter who just happened to be a police officer.

    August 23, 2022 at 10:40 am #996621
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    iandusud

    A truely shocking story that

    A truely shocking story that clearly shows that the police seek to protect car drivers from the results of their poor driving on vulnerable road users. The standout sentence in the article was: 

    No officer has been disciplined as a result of Bedfordshire Police’s handling of the case.

     

    August 23, 2022 at 10:19 am #996619
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    the little onion

    Tragic story. I think it is

    Tragic story. I think it is the same institutional anti-cyclist and anti-motorcyclist attitude. If someone on two wheels dies or is injured, too often the police either shrug and say it is “one of those things” (to quote a police officer speaking to me as I lay bleeding on the ground after being driven into by a distracted driver who failed to look before entering a junction), or they ask “why is this the victim’s fault?”. 

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