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Police seek to identify cyclist involved in pedestrian collision (www.policenews.act.gov.au)

submitted 1 year ago by Tau@aussie.zone to c/canberra@aussie.zone

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ACT Policing is seeking assistance from the public to identify a cyclist involved in a collision at Casey Market Town on Saturday, 20 January 2024.

About 8pm, a young child was struck by a cyclist who was riding on the footpath outside the Casey Jones pub.

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Smh my head it should have been this thing then the child would be fine.

I find the focus on a cyclist doing a hit and run on a pedestrian to be funny. Like sure, it sucks and you could be injured but at the same time, bicycles are lightweight and fairly slow compared to cars (p=mv etc ). Heck even those fast >30km/h scooters are unlikely to kill you.

Aus Fatalities (2020) and serious injury (2018) by road user type:

https://www.roadsafety.gov.au/nrss/fact-sheets/vulnerable-road-users

[–] Zagorath 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

test (because my reply on my main account didn't seem to be federating properly to your instance)

edit: yup. For some reason your instance isn't federating my earlier comment properly. Here's a direct link that should work as long as you click on it on a client that doesn't attempt to convert it automatically to your instance.