Police hunt mum’s killer after e-bike hit-and-run

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    Sriracha

    What would you think from reading the BBC’s headline:
    “Police hunt mum’s killer after e-bike hit-and-run”

    Pretty sure most people would have their anti-ebike bias confirmed and move on maybe without bothering to read the story, because they already know what it’s going to tell them; another hoodlum e-cyclist has hit-and-run a young mum on the footpath, killing her.

    You wouldn’t guess the truth, that it was a 4×4 car driver doing the hitting, killing, and running, and that the victim was the one on the e-bike, would you? In fact, two victims – one dead, one maimed.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8107z61pno

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  • #1024753
    Rendel Harris

    Pretty hard to see IDS

    Pretty hard to see IDS described as an intellectual firebrand and not identify irony!

    #1024751
    brooksby

    If you take a cursory glance

    If you take a cursory glance around the site, Blackbirds posts almost always tend toward the sarcastic…

    #1024749
    mattw

    Arrest now made.

    Arrest now made.

    As a (very) local, my feeling is that may be a drugs turf war of some sort.

    #1024747
    randonneur

    There is no defence in
    There is no defence in ramming someone off the road.
    The defender driver has taken a life.

    #1024745
    Mr Blackbird

    In defence of the suv driver,
    In defence of the suv driver, he was probably angered by the fact that the ebike didn’t have numberplates. He may have been implementing the reported recent suggestion in the Daily Telegraph (made by deep thinking, intellectual firebrand , Ian Duncan Smith) that certain cyclists should be driven off the road.

    #1024743
    Hirsute

    I made a complaint within an

    I made a complaint within an hour of the story being published. I have zero faith that they will amend anything.

     

    And it wasn’t an ebike, it was an electric motorbike.

    #1024741
    chrisonabike

    I hope I’m not being a

    I hope I’m not being a delicate snowflake, ignorant of the lessons of the school of hard knocks, department of that’s how it is, university of life … but reporting guidelines FFS!  It’s another self-driving car until about half-way through:

    Bike Bashing Corporation wrote:
    Alana Armstrong, 25, was a passenger on one of two e-bikes that were pursued by a 4×4 in Pleasley, Derbyshire, on Tuesday evening.

    The rider – a man in his 20s – was taken to hospital where one of his legs had to be amputated below the knee after their bike was struck by the dark-coloured vehicle on a country lane.

    Police said the car that rammed the e-bike

    Then finally:

    BBC wrote:
    A man was driving the vehicle, with a woman in the passenger seat, the force added.

    #1024739
    Simon E

    It’s the BBC. Institutionally

    It’s the BBC. Institutionally anti-cyclist.

    Did you expect any different?

    #1024737
    rogerwb

    I came here after reading
    I came here after reading that, could not believe it.

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