Joshua RozenbergWhy Grey got three years
Judge explains manslaughter sentence on pedestrian who killed cyclist
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Irena@rozenberg Very interesting. Your piece does show the care that goes into sentencing ... It's so easy to jump to conclusions from a headline. Thanks.
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Geoff Winkless@rozenberg the judge is flat wrong. The pavement was not a shared path, he just made the judgement that it has become so through illegal use.
Even if it _was_ shared the highway code is absolutely clear: in a shared path between cyclists and pedestrians the cyclist should have avoided the pedestrian or (if that were not possible) come to a complete stop. Had the cyclist followed the highway code the incident would never have occurred.
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@Geoff @rozenberg
"This was, I think, a shared path for cyclists and pedestrians" is very telling. Unless it was marked and signed as such paths are for pedestrians, not cyclists. It shouldn't be about what someone 'thinks', whether a judge or not, but about the factual status of the path.
And yes, I've had idiot cyclists trying to use a busy pavement without concern for the pedestrians there.
@AlisonW @rozenberg the police admitted in the trial that they weren't sure if it was a shared path. The judge made a direction to the jury that it would be counted as a shared path because cyclists had been using it as such. If that's not grounds for appeal I don't know what is.
BoxOfRain@Geoff @rozenberg
The judgeme to refers to a witness saying that they both appeared to have come to a complete halt.
The judgeme to refers to a witness saying that they both appeared to have come to a complete halt.
@boxofrain @rozenberg have you seen the video? That's clearly untrue.
There was 2 yards of space on the left side of the pavement the cyclist could have taken, instead she decided to squeeze to the right of the pedestrian who had been walking in a straight line without changing direction from the start of the footage. She should have a) not been on the pavement (as per the code), b) have avoided the pedestrian (as per the code) or c) stopped (as per the code).
😀🚲@rozenberg how long is the sentence for the traffic engineer and elected officials who designed and built this deadly road?
GadgetGav@rozenberg Surely being hit by the car killed the cyclist? I know you make that distinction in the article, so the “pedestrian who killed cyclist” seems a bit click-bait-y.