NHS worker who was left for dead watched motorist that hit him drive away

Riggs wrote:

Looks like the police have caught the driver. https://www.facebook.com/221913208013688/posts/1876486052556387/?substor...

Not on FB - can you copy-and-paste a bit of that?

You don't need to be on FB to see it.

Asking me to logon, not public forum.

edit: mobile app allows it but desktop forced the logon. 

Yes; that was what I got too.

brooksby wrote:

Riggs wrote:

Looks like the police have caught the driver. https://www.facebook.com/221913208013688/posts/1876486052556387/?substor...

Not on FB - can you copy-and-paste a bit of that?

Update - Man arrested after cyclist seriously injured - A724, Blantyre/Cambuslang
A 34-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with a road crash on Spittal Terrace, near to Hamilton Road, Blantyre, in which a 50-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
The incident happened on Saturday, 24 April, 2021. A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.
 

I am glad to see that someone has been arrested in response to this, however, what are the chances that the person arrested is the registered keeper, and they will simply use the "I wasn't driving it was someone else and I won't tell you who" defense because that will guarantee to get them a much lower punishment.

I might be going off on a tangent but in my opinion the failure to notify penalty should match the penalty for the original offence + 50% to make it a deterrent to those scrotes who use it, as opposed to the do I take a driving ban/jail/big fine or do i take a few points and a £300 fine for failing to notify.

Your logic is impeccable thus ensuring it has no chance of becoming law. The rich and entitled need these loopholes.

I think that, for most domestic vehicles privately owned and insured, they should just assume "joint and several" liability between all who are named on the insurance. That would encourage a few more to shop the true culprit.

Essentially you have to make 'failure to nominate' much much more costly than being honest.

Similar situation with 'leaving the scene'. If the penalty for leaving the scene when a person was injured was double the maximum possible sentence for driving related crimes I'm sure you'd see sharp decline in such behaviour.

I think that is the flaw in Ryan's law. It proposes to widen the definition of death by dangerous driving which is legally difficult, I think they should instead focus on much harsher penalties for leaving the scene of an accident. You could achieve the same thing but in a far more legally straightforward way.

I agree entirely.

Furthermore, if you think of the reasons why drivers are potentially likely to fail to stop, such as drink / drug driving, then failure should carry an automatic 12 month ban in line with those offences.

Totally agree on what you mention on Ryans Law and that was the DfT's point initially. However the flaw in any argument on hit and run is the normal defence of "I thought it was a deer, dog, pothole that caused the noise". After all we are invisible to people so what else might they have flung up in the air. 

And they have made it a more severe sentence for failure to nominate with it being 6 points ahead of three for careless driving. However they should take it further on instant 6 month ban for privately owned cars as the owner is not taking the responsibility for it that they should. And for company owned vehicles, they should hit them in a similar way that Data breeches are done with a large fine in relation to profits or £10k minimum.

Yep, and that is the sad part that in some peoples eyes as soon as you step on a bike you are no longer a person, no longer a valuable member of society, you are simply an object impeding the progress that they want to make and they simply don't care

Agreed sometimes painted bike lane can make things worse, there's a lane approaching traffic lights in Newbury/Thacham a lorry though they'd try and squeeze passed my son and I

This is a clip from the exact same location as the accident (opposite side of the road) taken last night. I caught up with the driver and asked him if he thought he was a bit close, his exact words were "your were in your lane I was in mine".

https://twitter.com/smurtagh21/status/1391118552804073476?s=19

Unfortunately as I said this is all too familiar on this stretch of road. It is near my house so unavoidable, I've dozens of similar clips. I've a quite horrific one where a cyclist was nearly killed on this same road last year I'm planning to submit to near miss of the day but awaiting the court case to conclude first. Will maybe submit the ones from previous prosecutions also.

Good to have the local angle. I had a quick look at streetview thinking the cycle lanes weren't too bad - to see a car driving right across the lane.

https://goo.gl/maps/RcPy69EEr5fEbKNi8

It looks like the 40mph main road near me. Used to be a 60, but after a few car crashes, it was reduced to 40. But being a big wide straight-ish road, the idiots still can't help themselves; I regularly get tailgated for sticking to the limit.

Hopefully Mark makes a full recovery and is back on the bike soon.

Riggs wrote:

They point blank refuse to look at any other statistics such as prosecutions, hence more cyclists like Mark will need to be injured or worse before action is taken.

It's either Denmark or Holland that uses risk as a metric rather than ksis.  They spend some time looking at how the road is used, and the risk posed to cyclists and pedestrians rather than counting the bodies.  It's well known and understood that if a road poses a high risk, peds and cyclists will avoid it, thus depressing the ksi figure.  If we want a golden age of cycling, we need to learn from what works in other places, and apply it.  I won't be holding my breath.

Link to Ryan's Law petition calling for proper punishment for drivers who leave the scene of a crash.

The offence of causing 'death by dangerous driving' should be widened to include: failure to stop, call 999 and render aid on scene until further help arrives.

Now at  99,168 signatures . Almost there.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/575620

Done. Thank you for the link & GWS Mark, sounds terrifying.

It would appear I had already signed it...

Now at  99,168 signatures . Almost there.

Thanks. I've done it.

99845...
c'mon people , almost there