{"id":19791,"date":"2016-07-26T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19791"},"modified":"2016-07-26T11:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:27:31","slug":"what-has-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19791","title":{"rendered":"What Has Gone Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning to the news that a road in Bingham is closed because there was a hit-and-run last night on a cyclist \u2013 and the cyclist died.\"Scene<\/p>\n

The motorist, a 28-year old male, is now in custody. If he is the one who was driving, he deserves to have the book thrown at him \u2013 and there is little doubt that he will<\/strong> have it thrown at him.<\/p>\n

Just a couple of additional details. The incident occurred at 10.15pm (i.e. in the dark, since sunset was slightly after 9pm). From the photograph, the section of road where it happened is shrouded with trees (it is mid-summer, so the trees are in full leaf), and appears to be unlit<\/strike>. The cyclist was a 13-year old child (the bulletins have been updated to say he was 14).<\/p>\n

When I was 13 (or 14), I most likely wouldn\u2019t have been allowed out that late, and I know<\/strong> I would have been forced to have lights on my bike. If I had been out that late \u2013 especially without lights \u2013 the odds of being stopped by a passing police patrol (on foot or in a car) and given a talking to were miles better than 50:50. At 13 (or 14), I would have been classed as a child \u2013 not a \u201cboy\u201d or a \u201cyoung male\u201d in an attempt at political correctness. Even the term \u201cteenager\u201d was mainly reserved for 16-year olds and above. And back then, there wasn\u2019t a culture of \u201ccyclists rule\u201d, which was likely to affect children and other people with attitude or maturity problems. Mind you, neither was there a culture of riding cars around as if they were bikes, either.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just saying. <\/p>\n

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TV reports suggest the car involved may have been travelling \u201cin convoy\u201d with a 2nd car the police are eager to trace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning to the news that a road in Bingham is closed because there was a hit-and-run last night on a cyclist \u2013 and the cyclist died. The motorist, a 28-year old male, is now in custody. If he is the one who was driving, he deserves to have the book thrown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyclists","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t