Assassination Attempts

Lorries … and Taxis … and Buses Oh My! (So why do girls in britain stop cycling?)
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To the driver I’ve just watched “driving” down the road, gently swerving from one side to the other: The trouble is, you were probably never taught to multi-task in this way. If only it had been part of your driving test, you’d have mastered this skill and been perfectly safe with one hand on the...
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This via cyclelicio.us: You can read the full story and the excerpt from the police blog over on Cyclelicio.us, but to summarise: A driver rear-ends a cyclist He tries to leave the scene A bus driver who’s seen the crash in his rear-view mirror blocks the road to prevent the driver’s escape Big hat-tip to that bus driver. In general,...
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I was riding home from a meeting on Wednesday last week, when I saw a couple of guys at the roadside. One of them had a bike and a trailer, so I stopped to say hello and to hand out a “Please join us” card for the Newcastle Cycling Campaign: It turns out that this...
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A video from the ever prolific Lewis Dediare, a.k.a. Traffic Droid: As Lewis admits in his own commentary, “I was on the inside lane on the red route lines and shortly after the boxed junctions. As I was riding I suddenly noticed this truck veering slowly into my lane,…he left his indication somewhat too late but I...
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First there was this on the front page of The Independent last April: Then today, this in The Times (do visit their page and sign up): So now we eagerly wait to see if the other opinion-forming newspapers will fall into line. Rumour has it that The Daily Mail will be next - here’s an advanced...
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Apparently, he was riding a bike and struck from behind by a pickup truck. It seems that he wasn’t wearing a helmet, and as one observer commented, “If Gene Hackman had been wearing a helmet he would be alive today…” Bicycle helmets are well-known for their magical properties in deflecting several tons of fast-moving metal. But...
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I found this video on Youtube this morning. I’d seen it before, but not the rear footage, which is nothing short of scary: When the police contacted the owner of the vehicle, he refused to give the name of who was driving it at the time. In the absence of the driver’s name, the police...
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A few weeks ago I got a new a front light. It’s one of those SSC-P7 LED units that turns night into day when you’re riding out in the country, and has a strobe setting that I use in town, and defy any driver to claim he hadn’t seen. From about a mile away. Even...
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So yesterday in London another cyclist was killed. That makes fifteen so far this year, and it happened on the same roundabout, on the same Cycling Superhighway as the fourteenth - just three weeks ago. photo by Diamond Geezer The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) is calling for the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson to immediately have this roundabout...
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