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[Closed] Have we done: ‘I can’t stop to help, it would upset my kids’
[url= http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/16/teenage-cyclist-hit-by-car-is-told-i-cant-stop-to-help-it-would-upset-my-kids-5106330/ ]Teenage cyclist hit by car is told: ‘I can’t stop to help, it would upset my kids’[/url]
Really the complete ****wittery of some people boggles me. Regardless of whose fault the accident is you should stop and help.
Quite frankly there should be a legal obligation to do so much like there is in France.
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Quite frankly there should be a legal obligation to do so much like there is in France
I was under the impression there already is? section 170 road traffic act http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/road_traffic_offences/#P71_3529
the reporter stated that it's hit and run..just not worded correctly
I stopped on a ride a few weeks ago as a young lad coming towards me through a bit of a dip in the road took a nasty tank slapper and hit the deck. The youngster in question was probably ten, out with his dad and had hit the tarmac quite hard, having not even let go of the bars, he was shaking with shock, a bit cut and bruised and obviously upset, also as he'd only just gone down, we hadn't yet got any idea if we should move him. The first driver to arrive did the decent thing and blocked half the road with his car, getting out to stop traffic the other way. Two other cyclists stopped to see if any further help was needed too. Here the good Samaritans ran out of members as the woman coming along next just stopped, got out and said "could you just move him off the road so the traffic doesn't get held up for too long?!"
Some people are so self centred it's frightening.
I blame it on the lack of the use of stocks in modern society. A Saturday morning of humiliation, shaming and rotten fruit outside of the supermarket, in addition to other conventional punishment, would not only identify miscreants to the general population so they can identify them in case of future criminality but would deter at least a few.
I reckon a morning in the stocks after a night in the cells for drunk and disorderly would have a large effect on drinking culture policing. Imagine not only waking up in a police cell with an £80 fine but the prospect of several hours in the stocks having tomatoes launched at your head by kids WHILE HAVING A HANGOVER.
Also a sliding scale of solidity of the fruit that can be flung from soft fruit to Squashes / Gourds if you have been a real ****.
I think there is a growing trend in society that everyone has to get or do something yesterday. Which means that we are rushing about - the excuse it would upset kids is rubbish - I think people just don't want to stop because they don't want to slow down.
I see it with students, they want to go from beginner to mastery in things quickly rather than spend time doing stuff.
Either that or the person in the car was just an A-Hole?
My vote goes to A-Hole.
A-hole +1
A-hole