Re: Sydney Bicycle accident

"K.A. Moylan" <kamoylan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:kamoylan-25C5E3.23151312052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article "Noddy" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "Trevor Wilson" <trevor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:68pojcFuhjhhU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> > **Yeah, sounded like he was coached well by his lawyer to me too. Can

>> > you
>> > think of an engine fault which requires such emergency action, such 
>> > that
>> > the lives of 50 people were put at risk? Hell, he (allegedly) 
>> > re-started
>> > quickly enough, so he could flee the scene. Smells like bull**** to
me.
>>
>> Of course it does, because you've already got your mind made up that he

>> is
>> guilty *regardless* of what actually happened.
>>
>> I never said he had an *engine* fault, and I've never seen that
re****ted
>> anywhere. All that has been said is that he had a "mechanical issue"
and
>> that could have been anything from a blown tyre to no brakes.
>
> How does someone stop so quickly when they have no brakes?
>
> Quoting from
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23670161-29277,00.html,
> | Jason said his car stalled, forcing him to pull up partly in the
> | emergency lane and partly in the left-hand lane.
> | "I've pulled over, I had time to put my hazard lights on, put it into
> | park, go to start it in petrol, ...
> | Jason said he switched the car from gas to petrol and it started.
> Sounds like a fuel/engine fault to me.


If this is true as you have quoted, then the cyclists riding behind him 
would have had plenty of time to go around and avoid him.
Sounds more like they were on some sort of a hell ride, intent on getting 
from one place to another in the shortest possible time.
To pull over, put it into park and restart on petrol takes a fair amount
of 
time, or a short amount of time, depending on what you call short or long.
It would take somewhere around 10 seconds, doesnt sound like a very long 
time,
 but long enough time for following cyclists to avoid a collision if they 
were looking where they were going !!


>> > **Gee, I wonder why? He swerved in front of them, placing their lives

>> > at
>> > risk.
>>
>> As much as I don't mind a good stoush, and the though of taking on 50 
>> lycra
>> wearing homo***ual bicycle riders could make for an entertaining slap 
>> fest,
>> I don't blame the guy for getting out of Dodge in a hurry.
>
> What logical leap did you take from 'lycra wearing' to 'homo***ual'?
>
>> > **They weren't Hell's Angel bikers, for ****'s sake. They were 
>> > cyclists.
>>
>> It doesn't matter if they were ****ing little old ladies with training
>> wheels. The guy might have been the type who is frightened by his own
>> shadow, and 50 pissed off people is enough for most.
>
> That guy behaved as cowardly as that idiot who ploughed his car into &
> killed that half dozen teenagers in Victoria (last year?).


Different place, time and cir***stances, you cannot claim that the two are

similar.

>> > Come to think of it: It is a shame he didn't pull the same stunt in 
>> > front
>> > of a group of Hell's Angels. I suspect the police would be 
>> > investigating
>> > an entirely different scenario. Chalk outlines and all that.
>>
>> Your bias in this case is staggering.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Noddy.
>
> -- 
> K.A. Moylan
> Canberra, Australia
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