The link I put up was a blog written by the grandson of the victim, according to him the cyclist from boxhill cycling club has been charged.
Gently tweaked to bring it closer to reality.More details here. Although not clear it appears that the cyclist may have pulled out in front of the bus? If so not sure why the assault charge. If a car pulls out from a side road and causes an accident the driverwouldmight on a good day, with luck, and a following wind, and a diligent traffic officer, be charged with careless driving.
This wouldent of happened if the bus had waited for the elderly person to sit down....
This post is an outrage!!
I was hopping on and off moving Routemasters in south west and central London from the age of one year less than the age any of you suspected I was going to say. It never did me any harm!
This post is an outrage!!
That is all I have to say.... Apart from this: We are in the grip of dangerously safety-obsessed safeticians (I made that word up) who are determined to safety us to death (I made that verb up). We do not want to be safetied to death. We want Routemasters, we want bakelite steering wheels and hard, metal dashboards. We want sharp, chromed-steel bumpers and dagger-like tail fins. We want rod brakes working on chromed-steel rims. (Strains of some patriotic tune start about here). We want roast beef from herds with BSE and we want ice-cream that de-frosted and was re-frozen. We want slippery pavements and 2mm panes in all domestic windows. We want slam-door trains on the Southern Region that allow you to leap off at ridiculous speeds when you're opposite the steps down to the Tube. We want the Queen to be young again and we want the Empire back.
The notion of seat belts on town buses in an outrage!!
An outrage!!