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Could this be the new
Could this be the new Alliston?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bedminster-east-street-cyclist-crash-2975260
A cyclist who slammed into a pensioner leaving her with life-threatening injuries has been jailed.Connor Coltman was pedalling at speed when he collided with Angela Horseman as she crossed East Street in Bedminster.
Having stopped momentarily as the 70-year-old lay unconscious in the road Coltman, who thought he had killed her, fled the scene.
He was later picked up, wearing different clothes, on the train track between Bedminster and Bristol Temple Meads.
Coltman was due to face a four-day trial in October but on June 13 he pleaded guilty to causing bodily harm to Angela Horseman by wanton or furious driving – a piece of legislation which dates back to 1861.
The 27-year-old, of East Street in Bedminster, also admitted a charge of failing to appear at court.
Judge William Hart jailed him for 16 months, as the court heard Mrs Horseman’s world has been turned upside down.
Hr told Coltman: “Mrs Horseman faced the most serious of injuries, yet you who caused it face a sentence, if convicted after trial, which could only merit two years.
“Where death is caused there could be a manslaughter charge.
“This is not so here.
“There was inflicting grievous bodily harm as an alternative charge, but the crown has not pursued that.”
The judge, having been shown CCTV of people crossing East Street, added: “Perhaps the council should review the road.
“I saw a lot of fast cyclists.”
I like it here. Many different topics are discussed, often with huge differences of opinion, and on the whole, contributors remain respectful. Well, about as respectful as Internet discussions get.Even if road.cc was “just a forum” (it isn’t), I’d visit weekly.
I don’t like the advertorial or near hits of the day, but I just ignore them and enjoy the bits I do like.
It’s frankly bizarre to post a complaint about a free website that you’re not compelled to visit. OP, genuinely interested to hear what you thought the result would be? A heartfelt thank-you for the advice and editorial control?
It looks like Dave has closed their account, so we’re not likely to get a response from redrobot.
They were certainly acting strangely – lots of forum posts that sounded like they were written by a 12 year old or a troll (why not both?). Then, after insulting the site design, content and readership, they called Dave’s bluff (not a bluff) on deleting their account.
Municipal Waste wrote:
I spend my entire salary on cycling, including not eating and living in a tree.You’d be surprised how much free food you can find on the ground around trees. The only problem is how to keep a stockpile of it safe to see you through the winter.
What is ‘soft’ porn exactly?Is it porn thats just really very tired, and would just like to cuddle instead?
Ryan Creamer?
apart from cycle lanes (a guess) what wd be the top 3 improvements to road infrastructure that cyclists wd want?For me, it’s not so much about the infrastructure as it always seems so poorly thought out in the UK with cycle lanes that don’t have priority over side junctions and that can stop abruptly leaving the cyclists in a dangerous position.
I’d rather we tackled the attitude and behaviour of the dangerous drivers, so my top 3 would be:
- presumed liability
- strict traffic law enforcement
- education about how and why cyclists ride as they do (e.g. two abreast, not using poor infrastructure, taking the lane to dissuade overtakes etc.) and how drivers should behave near vulnerable road users
Personally, I’d also like to see a “left-on-red” rule for cyclists (and possibly other vehicles if they can do it safely) and also a legal right to go either way down one-way roads (priority to the signed direction of traffic flow though).
What is ‘soft’ porn exactly?Not as much fun?
…or was it Cthulhu Cultists
…or was it Cthulhu Cultists?
I think you’re missing the
I think you’re missing the subtle sub-texts hidden in the lengthy arguments for and against helmets, which is really just a proxy for arguing about how much we want to follow a leader versus forging our own destiny.
If you don’t read between the lines, then you’re just consuming propaganda.
I always thought the “.cc”
I always thought the “.cc” stood for communist comrades.
But yeah, cycling club would make more sense.
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my suggestion wasnt aimed at prosecutions so much as gathering evidence to pressure for road layout changes. some roads have built in hazards that cd be changed with a jcb and a truck load of tarmac. there are qualified road safety specialists who cd produce (probably expensive) reports based on public concerns / evidence. lives v money.I see.
Unfortunately, that sounds like trying to get local councils to look at evidence about safe road layouts which seems to be like kryptonite to most councils.
Councils don’t listen to cyclists’ concerns currently, so I doubt that they’d listen to cyclists with hours of video footage.
I think it’d be interesting
I think it’d be interesting and could catch out a lot of drivers, but I think it’d be best to check with the relevant police first as they’d have to review all the submitted footage. I guess the camera operator would need to first review all of the camera footage to find any suspected offences and then raise a separate report for each one, but the local police might not be set up to deal with tens/hundreds of incidents per day. Also, the police may have no interest in prosecuting every single vehicle that jumps red lights or encroaches ASLs.
I’m not sure if you’d be required to put up CCTV notices for the recording of a public space and you’d also need to consider that someone could probably steal the camera quite easily.
But aren’t adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings? So it wouldn’t matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.Woosh?
Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space
You learn something new every day, I thought that was the space at the back of the sofa where all your loose change disappeared into.
Is that what is studied by students of sofology?
Well, I got my last sofa from Sofology and have had a hell of a time fitting it into my 3+1 dimensional universe.
You should have got an oscillation overthruster, then you could have folded it through the eighth dimension so it would fit 🙂
I thought of trying that, but Aldi had run out of vector bosons.
If you can’t get any, you can just make some out of tiny bits of string
I would’ve, but the squirrels keep stealing the string. I don’t even know what they’re doing with it
But aren’t adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings? So it wouldn’t matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.Woosh?
Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space
You learn something new every day, I thought that was the space at the back of the sofa where all your loose change disappeared into.
Is that what is studied by students of sofology?
Well, I got my last sofa from Sofology and have had a hell of a time fitting it into my 3+1 dimensional universe.
You should have got an oscillation overthruster, then you could have folded it through the eighth dimension so it would fit 🙂
I thought of trying that, but Aldi had run out of vector bosons.
But aren’t adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings? So it wouldn’t matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.Woosh?
Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space
You learn something new every day, I thought that was the space at the back of the sofa where all your loose change disappeared into.
Is that what is studied by students of sofology?
Well, I got my last sofa from Sofology and have had a hell of a time fitting it into my 3+1 dimensional universe.
