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@Jimmy_Fingers
Is there an offence for dangerous pedestrianism? I just wonder if it has been a ped causing this they would have charged him in the same manner. i realise the result was severe but it shouldn't cloud what actually happened; something got in front of a bus causing it to brake hard. the hazard was a cyclist but it could have been a cat, a dog, another car, a ped, a dominos van, a kid, a motorbike, a scooter.
Rather than demonising the catalyst perhaps look at other factors; the angle and safety of the seats on the bus, the lack of seatbelts in particular, and the speed the bus was driving at the time of him slamming on his brakes.
buses start and stop suddenly. I've been on ones where the second the door closed the bus accelerates rapidly before the elderly are seated. As a cyclist I've seen them accelerate rapidly past me, skimming me, then swerving into a stop and braking rapidly. There is no regulation for seatbelts despite there being on in coaches, and this would have clearly prevented this incident altogether. buses don't crash but coaches do?
This was a crash between two road users. Easy to blame the cyclist but the injury could have been prevented with better safety inside the vehicle. a safety procedure common to most road going vehicles. I am sorry for the injury to the elderly man but if the bus was going fast enough than when it braked suddenly, which is a prevalent danger on the road, a passenger was thrown forward with fatal force, then surely the responsibility is with the bus?