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Zebee Johnstone
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2185062,00.html
"A cyclist who caused the death of a man he crashed into while riding
on the pavement at 25mph was facing jail yesterday after admitting
"wanton or furious" cycling."
[...]
"An inquest earlier this year heard how in March last year Messen had
borrowed the bicycle from a nephew and had not ridden it before. He
was cycling to another village, Bugle, and moved on to the pavement
because the traffic was heavy."
Apparently heading down hill very fast. On the footpath.
I wonder what the traffic was like, whether it was something an
experienced cyclist (It isn't clear how experienced this guy was) would
cope with or not.
I could imagine someone not confident in traffic deciding to do Melville
St on the footpath. That's got lots of cars at times, who are quite happy
to go around me after I move out into the lane because I don't want to
be squeezed between the parked cars and the moving ones. (Once I get to
50kmh halfway down the hill I'm doing traffic speed and no one passes me.)
I would worry about someone getting up to that sort of speed on the
footpath though. If they are scared of traffic but not scared of
doing those speeds on a footpath (can you really guarantee a decent
surface?) then there's something definitely wrong with 'em.
Trouble is, people who would consider riding on the footpath at speed
are the kind who don't think about consequences.
Zebee
"A cyclist who caused the death of a man he crashed into while riding
on the pavement at 25mph was facing jail yesterday after admitting
"wanton or furious" cycling."
[...]
"An inquest earlier this year heard how in March last year Messen had
borrowed the bicycle from a nephew and had not ridden it before. He
was cycling to another village, Bugle, and moved on to the pavement
because the traffic was heavy."
Apparently heading down hill very fast. On the footpath.
I wonder what the traffic was like, whether it was something an
experienced cyclist (It isn't clear how experienced this guy was) would
cope with or not.
I could imagine someone not confident in traffic deciding to do Melville
St on the footpath. That's got lots of cars at times, who are quite happy
to go around me after I move out into the lane because I don't want to
be squeezed between the parked cars and the moving ones. (Once I get to
50kmh halfway down the hill I'm doing traffic speed and no one passes me.)
I would worry about someone getting up to that sort of speed on the
footpath though. If they are scared of traffic but not scared of
doing those speeds on a footpath (can you really guarantee a decent
surface?) then there's something definitely wrong with 'em.
Trouble is, people who would consider riding on the footpath at speed
are the kind who don't think about consequences.
Zebee