[mattw]

The fascinating thing about this debate is it would result in maximum one or two cyclists being jailed per year , but the drop in “dangerous” charging thresholds to accommodate & make the legislation effective would then see hundreds more drivers jailed…so it’s a yes from me.
https://x.com/markandcharlie/status/1789024994011365654

The thread is worth a read. The logic is afaics:

Hodson’s suggestion is that
1 Definitions of dangerous / careless have been aligned across cycles & motor vehicles.
2 Therefore, in order to capture cycles charging standards will tighten in practice.
3 So it means this tightening will also apply to motors.
Elementary, My Dear Watson?
https://x.com/mattwardman/status/1792611824342544592

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[wycombewheeler]

Quote:

Hodson’s suggestion is that
1 Definitions of dangerous / careless have been aligned across cycles & motor vehicles.
2 Therefore, in order to capture cycles charging standards will tighten in practice.

Unfortunately Jurors are still in the picture. they will consider any driving practice that looks not to dissimilar to their own driving to be dangerous. so you only need 3 shit drivers on a jury for the driver to beaqquited. Meanwhile those jurors will probably not cycle so they will see any cycling that might them feel a little uncomfortable as a pedestrian as dangerous.

Cyclist doing 25mph – dangerous, filtering – dangerous, cycling on shared use paths – dangerous. headphones – dangerous, no hi vis – dangerous.

 

[mattw]

I chatted about this with Ian

I chatted about this with Ian Greenwood.

The 10 minute rule procedure is explicitly there for raising issue in the house, unlike the IDS culture war amendment accepted by Ministers targetting Captain Mainwaring voters.

The rationale for graduated licences is that 17-24 drivers are 4x as likely to be killed in a collision as an average driver. It is a specific measure for which we have a strong evidence base from around the world.

I support that, as one measure in a far wider programme – including specifics like a 2/3 lower drinbk drive limit, and attention to infra based on LHAs actually being made to apply their Public Sector Equality Duty to all travel modes.

The Manifesto for Road Safety wrt the GE that Greenwood retweeted yesterday is broader, and comes from PACTS (I’d add a lot more too, but we start from where we are):
https://www.pacts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/PACTS-Manifesto-for-Road-Safety-2024-5-1.pdf

My chat with Dr Greenwood is here:
https://x.com/mattwardman/status/1788830983787024815

[David9694]

Dangerous Cycling Law Ditched

Dangerous Cycling Law Ditched Due To U.K. Election Called For July

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2024/05/22/dangerous-cycling-law-ditched-due-to-uk-election-called-for-july/?sh=5b48d3c038dc

Briggs seems unphased by the company he’s now in with the people who have latched on to his cause for their own reasons, and he promises to be back. 

There’s another grieving person, this time a father, who’s bit of legislation, introduced by Kim Leadbeater MP also presumably also lost called dr Ian greenwood. This was in relation to younger drivers.  

Both he and Briggs are, in their different ways, brushing under the carpet the way drivers of all ages kill themselves, passengers, each other and vulnerable innocents in significant numbers every fucking month. 

Perhaps that’s all too big a hill for greenwood to climb, understandable perhaps, but there’s something about both men’s side-steppping way of communicating that I don’t like.  That’s notwithstanding that having graduated licensing for younger/ newly qualified drivers isn’t a help – but for me the implication that everyone else is fine thank-you and that’s all we need to be doing is too strong. 

[BalladOfStruth]

chrisonabike wrote:

chrisonabike wrote:

Will have to have a read and obviously his professional judgement trumps random Internet posters like me … but I have my doubts!

Me too. It seems that in the rare case a cyclist does end up in the dock, they already seem to get very disproportionate treatment compared to drivers.

Of course, it’s hard to draw a comprehensive comparison when cyclists killing people is so rare compared to unending tidal wave of drivers doing the same. But even so, if someone is able to justify (for example) Alliston’s 18-month prison sentence based on the roadworthiness of his bike, in comparison to the suspended sentence of this woman, who was paying so little attention that she didn’t notice a corner in the road, and ended up killing a man on the pavement – I’m all ears.

It would be nice if this new legislation somehow prevented the courts from tripping over themselves to excuse the acts of negligence, or wilful aggression committed in cars, and ensuring they receive a fraction of the punishment as the same act in another context (like negligence in an industrial setting, or an act of aggression with a weapon). I very much doubt it though.

[stonojnr]

To send a message of course,
To send a message of course, whilst the car-nage continues unabated.

[stonojnr]

I thought the example posted
I thought the example posted the other day where the driver claimed to have only not looked at the road for 2 seconds and didn’t even know they’d hit anyone was bad.

But that one with the driver saying “He just came out of nowhere” ffs, unbelievable death by dangerous driving and still only get suspended sentence & community service, how does that work ?

Would Briggs have been satisfied with that kind of sentence for Alliston ?

[Hirsute]

Hark (the Herald Angels Sing)

Hark (the Herald Angels Sing) Hodson.

[Mr Hoopdriver]

chrisonabike wrote:

chrisonabike wrote:

Will have to have a read and obviously his professional judgement trumps random Internet posters like me … but I have my doubts!

I have no doubts.

There will be exemplary sentences to each and every cyclist that gets to court for this.  The sentences will be harsher than if said cyclist was driving a car.  The press and ‘public’ are baying for blood (as long as it’s not spilled by themselves driving), the politicians and courts will give them blood.

[mattw]

He puts quite a lot of weight

He puts quite a lot of weight on systems inside the CPS / Police to ensure consistency.

IMO the Jury’s out.

[chrisonabike]

Will have to have a read and
Will have to have a read and obviously his professional judgement trumps random Internet posters like me … but I have my doubts!

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