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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <8c94d3cf-fca9-451d-a93c-ebde7974b75e@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.transport,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: 'Inhumane' motorists drove OVER and around hit-and-run victim as 	he lay dying in the street Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:26:14 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 56 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.150.187 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1208456775 21327 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2008 18:26:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:26:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.150.187; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3673 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:647804

On Apr 17, 7:41=A0am, Doug  wrote: > Doesn't this say it all about the mentality of the average car addict? > > "Motorists who left a cyclist to die in the road after he was knocked > over by a stolen car were described as inhuman yesterday. > > Instead of stopping, they simply swerved around him, and detectives > believe that one may even have driven over the badly injured Stephen > Wills, breaking both his legs. > > By the time a passer-by finally raised the alarm, Mr Wills, 55, who > had been riding home from a dinner, was already dead. > > The self-employed plasterer was cycling down a dual carriageway in > Manchester at about 3.30am last Saturday when he was knocked over by a > stolen VW Golf. The car was later found burnt-out nearby. > > Witnesses said that instead of stopping to help Mr Wills as crucial > minutes ticked by, other motorists steered around his body, and police > believe one actually drove over him. > > "It's a pretty sad state set of affairs when people refuse to stop to > help a fellow human who is clearly in dire need of help," said a > police source. > > "Behaviour like this seems simply inhuman, and it's hard to believe > that drivers refused to stop and help. What's worse is that one driver > may have even driven over Stephen's legs before heading off. > > "We can only assume in some cases it was more important to those > drivers that they got home instead of stopping to help a dying man." > > When paramedics arrived it was too late and Mr Wills was pronounced > dead at the scene, apparently as a result of head injuries sustained > in the initial collision. > > He lived by himself in the Moss Side area of Manchester. > > He is thought to have had no children of his own, but was regarded as > a "father figure" by the two sons of a divorcee with whom he had been > in a relationship..." > > More: > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_arti... > > -- > World Carfree Networkhttp://www.worldcarfree.net/ > Help for your car-addicted friends in the U.K.

At last, someone who admits to hating cars.

What those people did (or didn't do) was absolutely terrible, but I would have stopped, as would any Safe Speed member that I've ever seen post. Tarring all motorists with the same brush is just as bad as doing so with cyclists.