Cyclist hit in Richards bay

[awesme]

Seriously...

 

sad week for cycling

 

http://roadsafety.co.za/2013-01/richards-bay-cyclist-critically-injured-in-collision-with-vehicle/

 

 

 

Cut and Paste

 

A twenty-two-year-old female cyclist is in a critical condition after a vehicle smashed into her along East central arterial Road Richards bay this afternoon. Reports indicate that the female was riding with a group at around 18h15 when a vehicle came hurling around the road; he slammed into the cyclist, rode over her bicycle and then collided into a lamp pole.

Netcare 911 paramedics arrived at the scene and found that the female had been thrown several meters from her cycle leaving her in a critical condition. The driver of the vehicle was taken by the S A P for questioning while his passenger sustained serious injuries.

Paramedics worked fervently to stabilize the patients before they transported the critically injured female to the Netcare Bay hospital for the care that she required. The other patient was transported to a local provincial hospital for further treatment.

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[Porra 1]

Not again. How many more before something is done. May she recover my prayers will be with her.

[Matts 300]

My thoughts are with her, hope she recovers quickly

[awesme]

This is also being discussed @

 

https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/125306-yet-more-tragedy/

 

 

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[slowpoke]

WTF? How come only "taken for questioning" instead of "arrested for reckless and negligent driving"???

 

Hope the lady heals up soon.

[urbanroyal]

WTF? How come only "taken for questioning" instead of "arrested for reckless and negligent driving"???

 

Hope the lady heals up soon.

 

+ 1 ..What about "Dolus Eventualis" This refers to where a perpetrator foresees indirect consequences as a possibility.

 

Surely our prosecutors can charge reckless drivers with this and then charge them with murder like what they did with that taxi driver here in the Cape...when he caused that accident at the railway crossing causing all that deaths ...?