[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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[Rendel Harris]

Pretty hard to see IDS

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

[brooksby]

If you take a cursory glance

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

[mattw]

Arrest now made.

Arrest now made.

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

[randonneur]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Simon E]

It’s the BBC. Institutionally

It’s the BBC. Institutionally anti-cyclist.

Did you expect any different?

[rogerwb]

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

[Author]

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