Who’d
be a cycles in London?
Certainly
not me.
Why
so?
Well
I’ll tell you.
So
many of them have been killed lately in collisions with vehicles.
Here’s
an extract from the evening paper
A cyclist today became the fifth to die on London’s streets in nine
days, as Boris Johnson appealed for riders to obey the “laws of the road”.
At about 11.30pm last night a double-decker 205 bus collided with a male
cyclist in Whitechapel High Street. The man suffered serious head injuries and
died at The Royal London Hospital early this morning. Thirteen cyclists have
now been killed this year.
A Transport for
London spokeswoman, asked whether the Mayor was suggesting any of the cyclists
who died had jumped red lights, said it was “too early to say”. On November 5,
hospital porter Brian Holt was killed in a collision with a HGV in Mile End
Road. Last Friday, architecture expert Francis Golding died after a crash
involving a coach in Holborn. On Tuesday a man lost his life after a collision
with a 410 bus in East Croydon. And yesterday a woman died at Bow roundabout.
And it isn’t compulsory
for cyclists to wear helmets either. Go figure that one.
There was talk on
the news this morning, or was it yeasted about cyclists undergoing a test similar
to a drivers licence…
We’ve got an expression
back in NZ for ideas like that…
Yeah Right….
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