scream wrote:
> "Sylvia Else" wrote in message
> news:4826e11c$0$13944$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> > Phil Allison wrote:
> >> ** Hi to all,
> >>
> >> The recent incident in Sydney involving some 50 bicyclists brought down
> >> on the highway by the deliberate act of a motorist seems very much a
> >> criminal matter - but what criminal charge can the NSW police use ?
> >>
> >> Driving offences have been mentioned by the police, eg failing to stop
> >> after an accident - but what happened is way more serious than that. I
> >> see two possibilities in the NSW Crimes Act: Sections 51A and 52AB.
> >>
> >> The first is called "Predatory driving" and the second is " Offence of
> >> failing to stop and assist after vehicle impact causing death or grievous
> >> bodily harm ". Far as we know, by great luck no rider was seriously
> >> injured, so the second is out.
> >>
> >> Predatory driving is shown here:
> >>
> >> http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca190082/s51a.html
> >
> > 51A(1)(b) might be difficult to prove, particularly if the distances
> > involved were such that he could reasonably expect the bicycles to stop if
> > they'd had braking ability similar to vehicles.
> >
> > Sylvia.
>
> Well this really irks me, that he could reasonably expect the bycycles to be
> able to stop.
> The action if not caused by a fault in the car/vehicle, the only intent
> possible to be read from the action is intention to cause tje bycycles
> persons to run into the back of his car, or at the least cause them to fall
> and injure themselves in attempts to stop.
>
> And courts should be able to diseminate between actions that would appear to
> be deliberate attempts to injure as against accidental damage. Presumably
> why we support such high incomes for our judges and law makers.
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I think you meant "discriminate" and not "diseminate."
This rabid, self-righteous lunatic driver should be
facing criminal charges. If he is let off, it would
encourage other mobile sociopaths to have a go at cyclists.
The usual excuse is that bikes are "holding them up."
If a bulldozer "held them up" I cannot see them playing
"chicken" or "propping" in front of one of those!
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