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PeterG wrote:
> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/10/06/cyclist-in-death-hit-faces-jail-89520-19905795/
>
> A cyclist is facing jail after he ploughed into a man on a pavement at
> 25mph killing him.
>
> Peter Messen, 28, hit Tesco storeman Gary Green, 41, as he loaded his
> car to go on holiday to Venice with his girlfriend.
>
> At Truro crown court yesterday Messen admitted causing bodily harm by
> wanton or furious cycling in March last year. It carries a maximum two
> years in jail.
>
> At an inquest earlier this year witnesses told how Messen was riding
> down a hill "like a bat out of hell" on his mountain bike. And seconds
> before Messen mounted the pavement shopper Don Lowe shouted at him:
> "You are going to kill someone."
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> Victim Gary of Stenalees, Cornwall, died from head injuries four days
> later. Messen will be sentenced in November.
>
> Comments please, especially from Doug
>
> Peter
It can't possibly have happened. The "newspaper" must be imagining it.
Why do I say that?
Obviously, it's because we have been assured time and again that no
cyclist can possibly harm another road user and that they should all
be canonised forthwith. And each given a hundred quid a week out of
the poorbox to add to the considerably higher incomes they apparently
all have.
PS: Why wasn't he charged with manslaughter?
PPS: ukrc added
> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/10/06/cyclist-in-death-hit-faces-jail-89520-19905795/
>
> A cyclist is facing jail after he ploughed into a man on a pavement at
> 25mph killing him.
>
> Peter Messen, 28, hit Tesco storeman Gary Green, 41, as he loaded his
> car to go on holiday to Venice with his girlfriend.
>
> At Truro crown court yesterday Messen admitted causing bodily harm by
> wanton or furious cycling in March last year. It carries a maximum two
> years in jail.
>
> At an inquest earlier this year witnesses told how Messen was riding
> down a hill "like a bat out of hell" on his mountain bike. And seconds
> before Messen mounted the pavement shopper Don Lowe shouted at him:
> "You are going to kill someone."
> Advertisement
> Click here to find out more!
>
> Victim Gary of Stenalees, Cornwall, died from head injuries four days
> later. Messen will be sentenced in November.
>
> Comments please, especially from Doug
>
> Peter
It can't possibly have happened. The "newspaper" must be imagining it.
Why do I say that?
Obviously, it's because we have been assured time and again that no
cyclist can possibly harm another road user and that they should all
be canonised forthwith. And each given a hundred quid a week out of
the poorbox to add to the considerably higher incomes they apparently
all have.
PS: Why wasn't he charged with manslaughter?
PPS: ukrc added