Ludgate Circus Archives • Average Joe Cyclist https://averagejoecyclist.com/tag/ludgate-circus/ A Blog for Average People who LOVE to ride bikes! Fri, 21 Jul 2017 03:44:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 15693361 Should Motorists who Kill Cyclists go to Prison? https://averagejoecyclist.com/cyclists-killed-by-motorists/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:17:30 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=19298 Here’s a crash that happened when a driver decided to ignore (or simply was too careless to notice) the sign that says that cars cannot turn right (across the cycle lane) at this intersection. The cyclist was taken away in an ambulance, the motorist was somewhat inconveniencedA London lorry driver who carelessly killed 29-year-old cyclist Louise Wright in London has been convicted of causing her death by careless driving – but has walked away with a suspended sentence and assorted wrist slaps. Should he have gone to prison? The family doesn’t think so …

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]]> 19298 7-Year-Old Boy on Bike Run Over by Cab Should Have Been More Careful! https://averagejoecyclist.com/traffic-fatalities-addison-lee/ Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:06:12 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=9676 addison lee - cycling safety - boy on bikeCars caused millions of traffic fatalities. In fact, cars have killed more people than anything else - terrorists and wars kill far less people. Yet when a little boy on a bike gets run down by a cab on a sidewalk outside his own home, the knee jerk response of many people is to blame the boy! Why are we so addicted to cars that we would blame an injured child, rather than a cab driver who was driving half on the sidewalk, knocked down a small boy, and then fled the scene?

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