Police investigate cyclist hit by car on closed-road Etape Cymru

A fine and 3 points at the most. I'd like the Ministry of Justice to explain how using 2 tonnes of metal to cause death and serious injury is effectively ok but if you cause similar destruction with a baseball bat or similar weapon you'll get the book thrown at you (sort of, even that is seemingly no big deal nowadays).

They'll respond it was an accident, therefore reduced punishment. How is operating the worlds most lethal machine (under licence as well remember) in such a manner resulting in death or serious injury an accident anyway?

Does the driver not choose on a second by second basis to operate that machinery in a certain manner? If those decisions result in another person getting hurt how is the operator not wholly responsible?

You try setting a shotgun up to discharge into a doorway when the door is opened and proposing as a defence that you should get a £40 fine and a few points as it was:

A) An accident and
B) You didn't mean for anyone to get hurt.

Wouldn't the reasonable man (the test the law uses I believe) consider that driving like a moron is highly likely to result in an act of violence occurring?

At what point will the most lethal of all weapons actually be treated as such instead of this sickening insistence that if you use a car to injure people you have no culpability for your violent actions? Government have blood on their hands for sure

Hoping the victime rcovers soon, but doesn't sound too good.
Another £40 fine and three points?

Hoping the victim has a quick recovery, but doesn't sound too good.
Another £40 fine and three points?

Ah - but you must remember the motorists have paid for the road, so they are entitled to use it whenever they want. Pushbikes don't pay for the road so shouldn't even be on it.

Yes, I know - I'm being sarcastic.

I gather the reference to Etape Hibernia is actually meant to be Etape Caledonia as Etape Hibernia is entirely in the Republic of Ireland and therefore not a UK event.

I wonder that considering this vehicle was on a closed road the police will also prosecute the driver for having no insurance and confiscate (and crush) his vehicle

Did the driver ignore police instructions to keep off the closed road? This being the UK, motorists seem to think they have a "right" to use the roads, even when large men in blue uniforms tell them not to.

Watching the Tour of Britain, I'm shocked by the number of parked cars the peloton has to cope with including, at one point, an HGV (whose allegedly trained and highly-skilled driver surely should have known better) blocking half the road.

Just as you thought it was safe to go back in the water !

Hope he recovers, hope the police catch their man.

By the way - not a race.