Another hilarious piece of sh!t journalism from the Daily Wail.
It is bad news that her mother got run over by a cyclist, and obviously one hopes for a speedy recovery. But the article is just insane. At one point she is talking about muggers on bicycles, as if the bicycle is a bad idea because some criminals use it as transportation. I mean, the car has traditionally been used in bank raids, or the transit in ram-raiding, and yet, I haven't heard calls for cars and vans to be banned as a result.
She also quotes from a TRL survey that 50% of cycle accidents are the cyclist's fault, neatly neglecting to say that the number includes children's cycling accidents, and if these are excluded, then the % of cycle accidents that are the cyclists fault drops to between 17%-25% (ref :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/15/cycling-bike-accidents-study). And of course she perpetuates the myth about culpability in road accidents, when this is not law in the UK, and even if it was, it would refer to the civil insurance proceedings, and not criminal liability.
Finally, she seems to turn into exactly the cyclist she hates when she tried it, and gave up, assuming that our urban cities are "unsuited" to cycling. Of course, it never occurred to her that our cities really
should be suited to cycling, and that places such as Holland didn't magically become cycling cities by the cycling pixies sprinkling cycle friendly infrastructure over the land one night.
I realise that I have spent 5 minutes analysing her article when it could be summed up in one work. Idiotic.