+1Could we collectively, as a forum, somehow send bouquets of flowers (or something) to the families of the deceased?
I'm being serious. Some gesture of solidarity, some way to offer condolences to fellow cyclists?
Yes, I know I've not thought this through, but it's how I feel right now.
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Will be interesting what the Italian goverments response will be to this.
What can the Italian government do? They had already banned the guy from driving and driving under the influence is just as illegal as it is anywhere else. You can legislate all you want, but you can't stop a minority from ignoring motoring or any other law.I would bet my pension the outcome will be more just than that for the four English cyclists killed a couple of years back. the higher profile of the sport and pastime in Italy should make it a cert.
What can the Italian government do? They had already banned the guy from driving and driving under the influence is just as illegal as it is anywhere else. You can legislate all you want, but you can't stop a minority from ignoring motoring or any other law.
Jail will be inevitable.Well, jailing him would get him off the roads fairly effectively, for a while at least...
As for the pictures, yes they are shocking, but isn't that a good thing? If more people saw scenes like this, it might drive home to them just what a car can do when driven badly. Show stuff like this to every learner driver.
I saw a girl knocked down (but not killed) when I was about 7 or 8. The image of her lying in the road bleeding has stayed with me since, and is probably part of the reason I'm usually the one left behind when a group of friends dash out and take a chance crossing a road.
I suppose the emergency services had a duty to cut the guy out of his car, but I bet some of them wish they could have just keft him there.
RIP the victims. Their poor families...
Could we collectively, as a forum, somehow send bouquets of flowers (or something) to the families of the deceased?
I'm being serious. Some gesture of solidarity, some way to offer condolences to fellow cyclists?
Yes, I know I've not thought this through, but it's how I feel right now.
Maybe a collective message of condolances from this forum to an italian equivalent forum would be the way to go.
That's what they've just said on the French tv news. I was quite surprised as it was the 2nd item covered!
Good idea. Do we have an Italian speaker who could identify a forum and compose or translate something?
Good idea. Do we have an Italian speaker who could identify a forum and compose or translate something?