2011-10-03 - Rider Down/Fatality, Kings Cross

As mentioned above I do not understand why these factors:

Ms Lee had a fixed gear bike. She wouldn’t have moved off quickly. If it had been a geared bike she might have got away quicker.”

Sgt Kingston said that Ms Lee was not wearing a helmet or fluorescent clothes, as is advised by the Highway Code.

...have any relevance to this. Repeatedly mentioning such victim blaming points either when reporting such incidents or when investigating them are to the detriment of future real road safety in that they leave an element of blame in people's minds suggesting that by a riders choice of attire they had it coming. This stuff is what leads drivers to 'punish' riders. (as oft stated it's like suggesting that a women is to blame when a man violently rapes her because she was wearing a short skirt )