Careless driver who left cyclist in coma is roads police officer with the Met

I've said this before, but it's worth repeating:

oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink 

Probably the same idiot officer that sat on his motorbike and watched a lorry turn left on me on the cycle super-highway on Friday and told me I was undertaking!

The police failing to protect victims of crime? Nothing new there.

OTOH if it a boy racer had done the same to an off-duty officer you can bet the perp would most likely have been roughed up and spent some time sightseeing the inside of a prison.

Sometimes, it just feels like a damn free-for-all.

It's bizarre and galling that it feels almost incidental that this driver had responsibility for cyclists, professionally. And utterly indicative that we don't take the safety of cyclists seriously in this country - nor seem likely to any time soon.

To follow Lord [sic] Winston's example, one should swan around the country is a cloud of  righteous indigantion, dispatching people and things we don't like with the waft of our palm. Because that solves everything, doesn't it?

I don't expect the nutty professor (Robert Winston - no longer fit to be a Lord let alone a professor) to criticise this DANGEROUS COP or OTHER MOTORISTS USING THEIR VEHICLES AS BATTERING RAMS TO COMMIT DEADLY ASSAULTS ON CYCLISTS as he clearly is an anti-cylist fascist intent on inciting hatred and rage against cyclists and he needs locking up. It's disgusting how seriously they choose to take antisemitic but have callous regard for safety of vulnerable cyclists.

‘Roads Policing and Transport Command’

I’m sure that covers a multitude of sins

It seems ludicrous to have a police officer that drives and is responsible for policing motorists - a clear conflict of interest.

Additionally, it is well known that humans are invariably fallible and subject to any number of known biases.

So, what we need is some non-human enforcement officer that doesn't drive.

Gentlemen, I present to you...

Meanwhile one incident of blue badge fraud cost a £1000 fine

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/17525946.colchester-family-fined-300...

I don't suppose it is worth asking if he had done this on his test if it would have been an instant fail.

Can we expect Lord Winston to be outraged at this typical outcome and use his power to bring a private members bill against actual violence like this?

Don't hold your breath.

As ever the message is firmly forced down your throat that it's ok to maim and kill as long as you do it accidentally using a car.

As ever all we'll do as a seemingly immobile group incapable of organising ourselves into an effective campaigning force is sigh, shake our heads and hope Chris Boardman will make it all better for us.

Words...

Fail...

Me...