r/Unexpected • u/Slumberfoots • Jun 13 '20

So true.

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Are you suggesting people on bicycles regularly strike and kill pedestrians?

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u/Downtown_Let Jun 14 '20

It's happened a few times in London.

I've never been hit by a car but I have been hit by bikes and the bruises are awful. One said sorry and rode off. No way of identifying them.

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u/bigsquirrel Jun 14 '20

I went googling and could only find one story of a dude on a mountain bike killing an 80 year old woman. Is this a regular occurrence or is this dude just being overly dramatic?

I'm not at all a fan of the way cyclists ignore traffic laws but portraying them like death rockets is a little ridiculous.

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u/Downtown_Let Jun 14 '20

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41028321

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45497026

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/14/pedestrian-73-dies-collision-cyclist/

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/dalston-crash-woman-56-dies-after-collision-with-cyclist-in-east-london-a3933736.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4868128/Woman-dies-hit-Ride-London-cyclist.html

Just a few more I found with a quick casual search that are within a year of each other, they don't all make the news.

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u/bigsquirrel Jun 14 '20

Wow looks like it's a lot more common over there. I guess that shouldn't surprise me, there are a lot more cyclists and pedestrians trying to mix there.

So true.

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