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Victim blaming on social media – but it’s ok it’s a cyclist

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  • October 22, 2018 at 12:13 pm #29070
    lllnorrislll

    Local paper has carried the story about a cyclist who was close passed and then brake checked, which resulted him in being slammed through the drivers rear window. https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/cyclist-thrown-through-windscreen-taking-2116579

    The Facebook post on Leicestershire Live has the usual venom and anti-cycling rant you would expect, but what has surprised me is the level of victim blaming, including telling the victims wife and a witness, who have both posted in the comments that the cyclist is to blame and only after the money. This is despite the driver pleading guilty in a court of law.

    So much to there being no us and them.

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  • October 22, 2018 at 1:34 pm #929891
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    fenix

    Shocking. There are some

    Shocking. There are some awful people out there. 

    It seems dedicated bike paths are needed all over the place. 

    October 22, 2018 at 1:29 pm #929889
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    bry nylon
    hawkinspeter wrote:
    Nice of the judge to say things like:

    This is an illustration of how road users really should contain their tempers as tragic accidents like this can happen.

    It’s not really an accident if you intentionally drive like an asshole.

    I’m wondering if the judge is related to the driver:

    He lives in a rural area where the nearest shop is four miles away so a driving ban will create a genuine hardship.

    If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime – or in this case, if you NEED your car, then drive responsibly.

     

    That was his defence barrister saying that ( the second quote),  the report in the paper says he got 9 points, ontop of his existing 5 points and received a six month ban..

    I agree that you can’t call that an accident – seems a very deliberate action to me..

    October 22, 2018 at 1:11 pm #929887
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    lllnorrislll

    For me it was comments like
    For me it was comments like this on the Facebook post by the paper that got me, as I don’t expect anything but a light sentence –

    No but clearly the cyclist hadn’t adhered to the rules on following and breaking distances or there wouldn’t have been a collision.

    Which was actually addressed to the cyclist / victim, on the Facebook article, because the victim responded to an irrelevant comment about red lights.
    Or this comment which was addressed to someone who backed the victims wife, who has also been reacting to the Facebook comments -
    He’s fine, he will probably get loads of money as well.

    You wouldn’t expect a victim of any other crime to get treated in such a way.

    October 22, 2018 at 12:36 pm #929885
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    hawkinspeter

    Nice of the judge to say

    Nice of the judge to say things like:

    This is an illustration of how road users really should contain their tempers as tragic accidents like this can happen.

    It’s not really an accident if you intentionally drive like an asshole.

    I’m wondering if the judge is related to the driver:

    He lives in a rural area where the nearest shop is four miles away so a driving ban will create a genuine hardship.

    If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime – or in this case, if you NEED your car, then drive responsibly.

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