I really had to tone down my language on this posting. It’s considerably shorter now that I’ve calmed down a bit and taken out all of the F-words…
“People are upset because some cyclists smashed into the back of my car…” Geez, Jason–I wonder why?
A year on and ‘Treadly and Me’ is still here-who’d have thunk it? In the 243 posts since this blog started on 1 January 2006 I’ve avoided blogging about the blog, so perhaps you’ll excuse this one indulgence…
There were ten reported road collisions in the last month.
Despite the media attention on the death of a pedestrian during the Hell Ride, there has been relatively little cycling-related road trauma in the last month.
Over the last three weeks I’ve been delighted to record no cyclist deaths on the road. But there have been injuries to four cyclists – all aged between 10 and 14. Let’s hope they’re all well on the way to full recovery.
Over the last fortnight I have recorded media reports of seven road accidents involving cyclists. There were five injuries to cyclists (three of whom were minors) and one cyclist death. The final accident involved a collision between a pedestrian and a cyclist in which the pedestrian died.
The Queensland government is to introduce new penalties for dangerous driving, driving while intoxicated, excessive speed, and hit-and-run.
The day after Kenneth Gibbons was killed by a hit-and-run driver, the Courier Mail ran some follow-up on a possible hit-and-run trend.
Police are still seeking a hit-and-run scumbag who left a ten year old lying in a Ballarat carpark.
Hit-and-run drivers are scumbags. But how much of a lowlife do you have to be to leave a six year old girl lying bleeding to death by the side of the road?
Scumbags who don’t stop to render assistance at a crash demonstrate that they are unfit to hold a driver’s license. They should be denied this privilege, permanently.
A NZ cyclist is lucky to be alive after being struck by a 4WD - they left for dead on the roadside.