http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Police, cyclists, lorries, mirrors, mobiles, ASLs, training en Sun, 31 May 2026 16:57:51 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4339#post-45720 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:23:58 +0000 Dave 45720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Interesting and strangely depressing. For example, the cycling officer pulls a cyclist to the ground when they pass a red light, then lets off an HGV driver caught red-handed trying to negotiate crowded streets on their mobile - and no seat belt either!)</p> <p>Now I'm quite happy to see cyclists ticketed if caught shooting a red light, but only in a world where HGV drivers who are stopped by the police for dangerous driving at least get a fixed penalty notice.</p> <p>Also on the same site, and even more depressing, is a comment into the <a href="http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2011/11/legal-update-r-on-application-of-kate.html">rejected appeal regarding the inquest into the death of Elidh Cairns</a>, who was killed by the driver of a truck later charged with having defective eyesight (but not actually charged the killing). </p> <p>Given that it has surfaced in the news recently that the same driver is now <a href="http://road.cc/content/news/47057-eilidh-cairns-killer-implicated-second-london-lorry-fatality">allegedly being investigated with regards to a second fatal road collision</a>, it's hard to credit that "PC Clark of the Collision Investigation [Branch of the Metropolitan Police] explained that he was unaware of anything which could be done to prevent accidents of the kind in which Miss Cairns was tragically killed"."</p> <p>Um. How about, just for starters, nailing drivers who have defective vision, if not before the first time they cause a life to be lost, at least before the second? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4339#post-45682 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:45:11 +0000 14Westfield 45682@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thats also a really good website for cycling law (primarily english) and on how various police forces have dealt with dangerous driving and even assaults that have been recorded by cyclists on wee video cameras. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4339#post-45640 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:59:20 +0000 chdot 45640@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>and more. </p> <p>Roibeard posted this link</p> <p><a href="http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-morning-with-metropolitan-police.html" rel="nofollow">http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-morning-with-metropolitan-police.html</a></p> <p>elsewhere. Quite long but all sorts of interesting info and observations. </p>