Two Deaths: Bristol

[Glow worm]

The inadequate cowards who sit behind a keyboard sending out their vile messages eh!!
The worrying thing is that scum like him actually believe in what they say!

That's the kind of thing that makes even an old leftie hippy like me yearn for the gallows to be brought back.

RIP the two cyclists- tragic. Let's hope the legal process can come up with punishment that isn't a complete insult to the dead for a change.

 

[glenn forger]

Should be manslaughter, that's two families destroyed.

 

[EltonFrog]

Those poor people. This is desperately sad for the families of the two young people that died , I cant even begin to imagine what they must be going through right now.

Just as sad, and maybe even sadder is the bile that some fool on twitter has written, it's a terrible indictment of some sectors of society today, that someone thinks that its all right to write something like that. It beggars belief.

 

[srw]

Should be manslaughter, that's two families destroyed.

Those poor people. This is desperately sad for the families of the two young people that died ,

You two do realise that they were married to each other, don't you?

It's very sad for the family - on both sides - and for friends. And as half of a married tandem team it feels closer to me than most on-road deaths. But there's no evidence that this was anything other than a case of people randomly being in the wrong place at the wrong time and suffering the consequences. It happens all the time, and shouldn't change individual behaviour. If it contributes to the changes in policy that are happening anyway, that's a good result for society from an individual tragedy.

 

[glenn forger]

Shall we wait for trhe investigation to finish before exonerating the driver?

 

[jefmcg]

Why do you help him to more widely circulate his message?

He's had to lock down his account: good work benb!

(I tried to look and it said you need permission to read them)

 

[srw]

Shall we wait for trhe investigation to finish before exonerating the driver?

Who's doing that?

 

[glenn forger]

You claimed there's no evidence of anything other than bad luck. You can't possibly know that.

 

[Mo1959]

You claimed there's no evidence of anything other than bad luck. You can't possibly know that.

On further reading, the police had already attempted to stop the driver and failed so was probably speeding I would imagine........so definitely not just bad luck.

 

[Sara_H]

When it was first reported I was fairly sure I saw in the report that the same car had been onvolved with another cyclist earlier, but I cannot see that being reported anywhere now. I assume I mis read this as being the case, involved with a Police chase.

I remember reading that too.

 

[srw]

You claimed there's no evidence of anything other than bad luck. You can't possibly know that.

Bad luck for the victims being in the wrong place at the wrong time is definitely not an exoneration of the driver - and you shouldn't be so naive as to read it as such. The clue's in the phrase "at the wrong place at the wrong time" - at the exact place and time where someone who appears to have been avoiding a police attempt to stop him appears to have been driving extremely dangerously.

 

[glenn forger]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65558000/jpg/_65558827_hi017067033.jpg

Some very sad updates. This wasn't "bad luck" it was someone crashing into two young people, killing them and running away.

 

[glenn forger]

I remember reading that too.

The early reports had that the driver may have deliberately targeted other road users.

Eyewitnesses said police were investigating several separate incidents in and around the Hanham area. There were also reports that the person involved deliberately targeted people.

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Reports-cyclists-dead-hit-run-Hanham/story-17978337-detail/story.html

 

[MrJamie]

Very sad

 

[summerdays]

Very sad. Lots of people talking about this today, even heard of one person who had had loads of friends contact her because she was a tandem rider before they announced their names.