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@jackcycles Is this now Road.cc Gold? I'm loving reading all the classics from yesteryear yet again. Ah yes the Twitter police, those donut munching types at Surrey Police's road safety unit - how could we forget your love for them. A bit like your famous 27mph average speed around leafy Essex and your Mr Poopy-Butthole fanboying Nigel. And whilst we're at it - "left-wing power grab"? What exactly have the now disgraced 1970's punk outfit from Redcar got to do with this?

(a) agree (b) I've not seen it but assume the social media coverage is from other sources eg phones?

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Kill A Cyclist = Don't Worry, we don't take it seriously, only a Joke Sentence. It's their own fault for cluttering up the roads, and anyway he shouldn't have been out at 4:50 in the morning getting in the way of respectable drivers who have an important job to do

I despair at the leniency of sentences handed out for Death by Careless Driving. If I was responsible for the death of another person based on my negligence in any other way it would be Manslaughter. But the fact a vehicle in involved is separate. Ironically due to the fact the govt at the time who introduced the law thought juries would be too lenient or apprehensive on convicting someone who - at the end of the day - still took another human life because of their actions. This needs more signatures and I hope it can reach its target Call for harsher sentencing for causing death by careless driving: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766378

Sadly the prison system is a mess. A result of decades of right wing press appeasing longer sentencing, lack of investment and lack of support for released prisoners. The only consolation is that the driver has still paid a high price. He may well never again be employed as a van driver, his insurance premiums will skyrocket, he has a criminal record and much of his leisure time will be spent on community service for the foreseeable future. Maybe in these type of cases a large life-changing fine (£25k - £50k?) would be appropriate? Perhaps this money could be spent on released prisoners support.

But we should all applaud that cyclists can (and very likely in 100% of cases) be sent to jail for life if they are involved in a collision with a pedestrian and that pedestrian dies. Because IDS and that vengeful prick wanted 'equality' with driver sentences.

It is good that at least one motorist has been convicted for excessive speed in 20 mph zones. Whatever opinions of 20 mph limits might be, given the body of evidence of the reduction in KSIs long may the 20 mph limits continue. Anyone arguing against them is saying that the lives of those who have been spared just don't matter.

She put 2 and 0 together and made 27.

A rare legal defeat for Mr Freeman, and I find his client's legal arguments quite frankly ridiculous. However, let's not forget his work road safety campaigning, especially against dangerous e-scooters. I have mixed emotions about 20mph zones. They are certainly useful around schools and child-heavy areas and would especially work if dynamically assigned rather than prescribed throughout entire towns and cities. I and plenty of other cyclists ride above 20mph and it can be annoying stuck behind cars driving at 20mph on a road unnecessarily, it feels like a left-wing power grab to curtail people's freedoms. Instead, I believe that if the existing 30 limit and existing laws on phone use was rigourously enforced it would have a greater impact on KSIs... unfortunately the police have been dragged away to regulate Twitter and act as social services to incapable people.