| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re::Re:CS9 Jeremy Clarkson uncovers the 'Truth' about Cycle Lanes! | |
| Posted by: | Pip Walsh | |
| Date/Time: | 20/08/19 08:35:00 |
| ""Cycling is fine as it is"" This was the most recent fatality caused by an HGV driver in the capital: "Stewart Burgess was sentenced to 3 yrs 7 mnth in custody & disqualified from driving for 3 yrs 6 mnth after he collided with a cyclist on Portman Square on 30/5/19 whilst driving a HGV, the cyclist sustained fatal injuries, Burgess had also failed a roadside drugs test" Before that we had Barry Meyer, the cocaine-using HGV driver who jumped a red light and didn't even have an HGV licence: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/killer-hgv-driver-barry-meyer-who-mowed-down-alan-neve-jailed-for-three-and-a-half-years-10250978.html The firm that employed Meyer were banned from ever running a road haulage firm again. They immediately set up a new firm in the wife's name and their driver killed again: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4577944/truck-killed-cyclist-chelsea-bridge-owned-scandal-hit-haulage-boss-family/ Both HGV drivers went to prison. Before that we had Catriona Patel, killed by a drunk HGV driver who was playing with a phone at the wheel, Dennis Putz. Putz had 20 (twenty) driving bans and got a job driving 15 ton trucks round the capital: https://road.cc/content/news/27511-breaking-seven-years-jail-and-lifetime-ban-lorry-driver-who-killed-catriona-patel So HGV drivers who are drunk, on drugs or playing with phones are killing blameless people on bikes, and Alex reckons that "Cycling is fine as it is". That's the level of intelligence we're dealing with. |