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"Cyclist did wheelie on road and hit pair on tandem"
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Alternatively, "man on bike did wheelie on road and hit pair of cyclists"
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"Tandem cyclists collide with wheelie-ing bike"
What a ned.
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No mention of the condition of the tandem riders but I believe the stoker was badly injured in this incident.
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Hope the tandemistas were not badly injured. Feels like they might have been as not sure why went to court unless police not able to apply on the spot fines? Also not personally keen on sixteen year olds riding £1400 mountain bikes unless paid for it themselves via earnings from a paper round. Just my opinion.
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Alternatively again "tandem in collision with bike on one wheel" in drivist-speak
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Whilst the boy responsible deserves to be punished it would really show how much of an ass the law is if he gets a harsher punishment that if he done it in a car.
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Pulling a wheelie in a car would be impressive ;)
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WC's comment has reminded me of old drag racing footage from the 1970s. Pulling wheelies not exactly unknown in cars, usually souped up supercharged monsters, but check out the wee Fiat and that school bus:
(Teenage boy mode now disengaged, captain.)
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I thought there'd be some drag race antics :)
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My mum used to have a Fiat 126 in green (car 2nd bottom). It has the engine in the back and the boot in the front. With a full complement of adults squeezed in the back and nothing under the bonnet it probably looked like that going along the road from Queensferry. My Dad's clapped out old Hillman Imp reportedly looked the same when he moved his wordly posessions down to Canterbury in it to take up his first "proper" job after graduation in nineteen seventy something.
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The solicitor also revealed Ms Boulton is currently pursuing civil claims against Horne and the tandem’s pilot Mr Laughton.
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Sounds like she wasn't wearing a helmet!!
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In the words of Sir Patrick Moore, "we just don't know."
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serious head injuries including a fractured skull
Sounds like no helmet to me
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Yep, helmets are completely effective at protecting the base of the skull. I've heard nobody who wears one ever gets injured.
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I'm curious, zesty, why you felt you had to mention it at all?
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Would be interesting to know if she had a helmet on or not since she received such serious injuries as it does not mention it in the article.
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You'll be happier not knowing. If a helmet was worn, we'd put it down to freak chance, if one wasn't, we'd be certain that she'd have been fine if she'd had one on. (Alternative prejudices are available).
Data isn't the pleural of anecdote etc.
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I wondered about the helmet also but for some reason assume most likely was.
If a helmet was not worn I suppose it could be considered partially a result of poor decisions, poor personal choice, such as when someone suffers injuries in a car crashes when not wearing a seat belt, or someone gets cancer that smokes.I suppose it can be reassuring creates a (possibly false) feeling of control over the outcome for both those that wear or don’t wear helmets that she made poor choices rather than it could happen to anyone.
More reassuring still to those that wear helmets to know if she was not (if she wasn’t), however as some of the injuries would have occurred irrespective of a helmet not sure how reassuring either from the control aspect or the it would not have happened to me.
The only tandem I have ever seen is the one in Livingston that dawdles along the path a green galaxy, when reading the article for the first time I did wonder a lot of injuries from a low speed fall off with no cars involved I assumed the tandem was going slow( like 12mph not 25mph) but may be tandems can go fast or injuries at low speed.
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I was more struck (appalled, really) that she is seeking damages from the tandem pilot too...
Posted 10 years ago # -
@SRD: yes, that threw me as well. Was she on some kind of organised or paid for ride?
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My guess, only a guess, is the poor woman had a helmet on, otherwise this would have been mentioned? Other narrative that is hard to prove or disprove is that injuries worse if not worn. She appears to have been badly injured with possible memory loss.?
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I agree it would have been mentioned if she had not been wearing one. And also found my sympathy evaporating somewhat when I read she is pursuing the tandem pilot. :-/
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Maybe he has insurance she can claim off & the teenager doesn't ?
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Yes, it might not be the way it sounds. I hope not at least.
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Maybe he has insurance she can claim off & the teenager doesn't ?
I wondered this also as would imagine very few teenagers would have insurance.
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yes, probably. did sound like she's at quite a difficult point career-wise to have injuries like this (not that they're ever easy).
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I think that in the same situation as the stoker, I'd be claiming damages off the pilot too, even if they were a friend. I would hope this could be done in an amicable way, but it would simply reflect the reality that I have had life-changing injuries that weren't my fault and they have insurance that might well pay out to cover my future care and loss of earnings.
This doesn't feel like a situation that she should just accept as being 'bad luck'. Somebody is now shown to have broken the law, and she suffered as a result. I think it's reasonable that she pursue all the avenues she can to help her recover from this.
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