Cyclist down - Sky News presenter

[growingvegetables]

Hit-and-run. On the phone. "On an empty road in north London a guy in a car on a mobile phone pulled out from the side of the road without indicating. I swerved that. But a millisecond later he u-turned into me and wiped me out."

 

[ufkacbln]

Interesting ... coverage like this could be good or bad

Methinks a National News Story may either encourage the offender to hand themselves in, or will drive them under cover

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Amazing really. Accidents get reported as, car hits cyclist, or cyclist has accident with a car.

Now it's a news reporter, and all of a sudden a PERSON in a car hits them. They then get a lift home with him and his bike by the police. Seems like a different standard compared to when it's anybody else.

 

[HorTs]

I was on a cycle with Dermot once, I got a puncture and he stayed while I repaired it as I didn't know the route back, nice guy.

 

[jefmcg]

Amazing really. Accidents get reported as, car hits cyclist, or cyclist has accident with a car.

Now it's a news reporter, and all of a sudden a PERSON in a car hits them. They then get a lift home with him and his bike by the police. Seems like a different standard compared to when it's anybody else.

What?

The description of the "guy in car" was a direct quote from the victim. That's usually missing from the most reports.

As for being driven home? The police offered to drive me home after I broke my clavicle. It seemed pretty standard. They couldn't drive me to the hospital because of liability issues (H&S gone mad!) so I had to get a minicab.

 

[ufkacbln]

I was witness to an accident, Police arranged for the bike to be looked after near the scene, then collected and delivered it

 

[mjr]

Sky's usually not too bad about reporting cycling - a bit too uncritical of politicians and snake oil "safety equipment" salespeople, if anything, but not often too bad. Now, if only they could have a word with their stablemates at The Sun