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Justice (Lonpicman, Wikimedia Commons)Driver who seriously injured cyclist when overtaking group ride fined
A driver who seriously injured a cyclist when overtaking a group of riders on a blind bend in the Scottish Borders has been fined £1,000 and banned from driving for three years.
Anthony Chester, aged 67, hit cyclist Anthony Clarke when he was attempting to overtake the group on a blind bend on the A6088 road between Hawick and Carter Bar on 20 June 2019, reports Edinburgh Live.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard that Chester, from North Shields, Tyne and Wear, drove into the cyclist to avoid a head-on collision with a car coming in the opposite direction.
He denied causing serious injury by dangerous driving, but was convicted by a jury and was sentenced last Friday.
Sheriff Daniel Kelly, sentencing Chester, said: “This is a serious charge of which you have been convicted of by a jury. It is causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
“I recollect that the cyclist Anthony Clarke said he has never really been able to cycle again and that he was a keen cyclist up until that point.
“So it has had a serious impact upon him along with the serious injuries he received.
“The roads in the Borders are tricky ones and you do have to take care as they are windy and are there a number of bends.”
Besides fining Chester £1,000, the Sheriff also ordered him to pay Mr Clarke the same amount un compensation.
He will also have to take an extended driving test before he can regain his driving licence once his ban ends.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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When someone else postred about should have been a jail sentence, the reply was "And what about the cyclist on the pavement". No one has replied "what about the cars on the pavements".
TBH, I'm not even sure why he even contested it as he didn't even get a suspended sentence.
Does the Jury selection process not include documenting 'interests' in the matter under consideration, i.e. how many have experience as cyclists, or do not?
Surely a balance must be required for impartial outcomes...
The only way that there would have been an impartial outcome would be to have an entire jury of non-driving non-cyclists. There are too many drivers who when faced with a dangerous driving case would see elements of their own driving in perpetrators actions and choose not to convict on that basis.
Then you have people, like he who needs his mums opinion, who would be predisposed to give a not guilty verdict because the victim was riding two abreast in a group regardless of how bad the driving was. Because in his opinion any group of more than 4 cyclists should be stopped by the police and their bikes seized and sold at auction.
"Chester was forced to swerve and strike Mr Clarke to avoid colliding with a car coming in the opposite direction"
"the cyclist Anthony Clarke said he has never really been able to cycle again and that he was a keen cyclist up until that point"
How the hell is £1000 any punishment for dangerous driving?
Could he not have gone off road or relied on crumple zones and airbags in an emergency stop?
Disgusting.
Or, perhaps, not attempted to overtake on a blind bend?
Obviously a Dangerous manoeuvre, not supported by the required view of the oncoming traffic. If in doubt, Don't.
Pathetic!
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