CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 16years old!
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Exactly - and that includes pedestrians crossing without looking.
However the big difference between motorists and others is that they have much more protection and are more lethal (through mass) to other less protected users of the transport system. That's why the law needs to be tougher on them.
Ironically all of this could be achieved with a negligent homicide prosecution and sentencing guidelines.
For example, negligent homicide by cycling on the pavement would carry a higher tariff than negligent homicide by cycling on the road, as in the case of Rhiannon Bennett.
Negligent homicide behind the wheel of a motor vehicle would automatically carry a tougher sentence to reflect the fact that we need drivers to take proportionate care given the amount of people they kill and injure. For the hundreds of pedestrians killed by drivers who mount the kerb, for example, that would be an exacerbating factor relative to hitting them on the road (if they were playing chicken after beers in the park).
And so on, and so on.
It's just such a non problem. "During the 3-year period 1998-2000 out of a total of 2,630 pedestrians killed on the roads, 185 were killed by vehicles on footways. Of these 185, one was killed by a bicycle and the remaining 184 were killed by motor vehicles."
from the guardian:
The annual climax in cycle hatred peaks around this time of year and may add temporary weight to Conservative MP for South Northamptonshire, Andrea Leadsom's, private member's bill, calling for a new traffic safety offence: death by dangerous cycling. This would, Leadsom argues, allow the actions of the very small number of cyclists who kill pedestrians (on average 0-3 a year, 0 in 2009, 1 in 2008) to be investigated by the police and, possibly, a proportion of these to be convicted of death by dangerous cycling. (It is worth noting that 500 pedestrians were killed by motorists in 2009, 572 in 2008.)
There's actually a very interesting point made in the article, which I wasn't aware of. We don't track the outcomes of investigations into road accidents.
Wow.
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