Sad death

[downfader]

http://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/Bus-driver-cleared-of-blame.5234102.jp

It does strike me that she was actually pushing the bike. I wonder if there was no pavement she could have pushed it on... one of the reasons I always carry lights and spare batteries.

 

[hackbike 666]

..."and reflective clothing" for all you anklebiters on here.

 

[Cubist]

Awful. Poor girl. Poor driver.

 

[hackbike 666]

Very sad,awful incident.

 

[HJ]

Typical blame the victim, she wasn't riding the bike and she still gets the blame...

 

[Arch]

Typical blame the victim, she wasn't riding the bike and she still gets the blame...

She was walking on an unlit road, in dark clothing, with no reflector or light, so I think she had to bear at least some of the responsibility...

 

[Arch]

having said that, buses do have bloody great lamps on the front...

 

[thomas]

It sounds pretty much like an accident I saw a few minutes after it happened, other than it was with a car not a bus. Not pretty, but feel equally bad for the driver having to live with it.

 

[HLaB]

What a tragic death. I feel sorry for the bus driver too, reading that account it seems like he couldn't have done much.

 

[fossyant]

Bus lamps are no brighter than a cars, and probably no where near as good as most car lamps - they still have the legal limit of 55/60w per lamp.

Terrible accident.

 

[HJ]

Actually I was more annoyed at the way it was reported, I do have some sympathy for the driver. But there is an attitude in the press and amongst the great unwashed that if a cyclist or a pedestrian is run over, that is somehow their fault and that drivers are blameless...

 

[marinyork]

If she wasn't pushing the bike she was a pedestrian. That road has good clean line of sight along it, the whole thing sounds very fishy to me and that the driver may not have been investigated fully just putting it down as some "nutjob" pushing a bike.

It's a horrid, bleak place to die round there.

 

[Brains]

As a pedestrian she should have been walking facing the traffic.

Still, it beats me how a driver of a vehicle (bus or not) could fail to see a bike and pedestrian on the edge of an unlit road.

Bar the single track lanes in Cornwall and the Highlands most roads have a white line painted down the side for this very reason

 

[downfader]

If she wasn't pushing the bike she was a pedestrian. That road has good clean line of sight along it, the whole thing sounds very fishy to me and that the driver may not have been investigated fully just putting it down as some "nutjob" pushing a bike.

It's a horrid, bleak place to die round there.

The police seemed to think that there was nothing even on the bus CCTV from reading that. Thats how invisible she'd become at night.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I feel sorry for the driver. I very nearly squashed an unlit cyclist on the A5 one night a few years back while I was driving a truck. They're not easy to see, even with halogen headlamps, at 40mph.