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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 12 08:50:39 2023
    The mum of a teenage boy who says he was knocked off his bike along a new cycle lane by a driver allegedly watching Netflix on their phone is calling for the council to install CCTV cameras because the incident was not captured. The 16-year-old boy was
    riding home from school along Magdalen Road in St Leonard's by the junction of Denmark Road last Tuesday, June 6, when a car collided with him at around 4.40pm.

    The teenager was taken to hospital as a precaution. A chest X-ray confirmed he had not broken any bones and he has been described as doing 'fine' after the initial shock of the incident.

    Magdalen Road reopened only a couple of weeks ago on May 27 following nearly six months of works to turn it into a permanent one-way system to encourage walking and cycling and reduce traffic along the road. The one-way system has also been extended onto
    the Fairpark Road junction as part of a temporary trial.

    Following the bike incident, calls are being made for the council to install CCTV to make it safer for cyclists. The teenager's mum, who asked to remain anonymous to protect her son's identity, said: "The lady in the car was watching Netflix. She just
    said sorry and she went.

    "My son was in shock so he didn't take a photo. He was lucky; he didn't have any injuries and nothing was broken. He was checked over in hospital and then we came back home.

    "He is fine but a camera should be there. It would have been great to find the person but unfortunately, there was no camera on the road so we can't do anything and my son didn't want to go to the police. It is a waste of time if we don't have any proof
    apart from a hospital health check and X-ray."
    The junction of Denmark Road and Magdalen Road where the collision

    Devon County Council and Exeter City Council has confirmed it does not have any CCTV along there and has no plans to install any.

    A Devon County Council spokesperson said: "We're sorry to hear of this collision but glad that the young man wasn't seriously injured. Unfortunately, there are no CCTV cameras in this area and we would not typically install them on our infrastructure
    projects. We would advise that this collision should be reported to the police."

    An Exeter City Council spokesperson said: "We currently don’t have any cameras in Magdalen Road. However, highways safety is the responsibility of Devon County Council."

    https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-teen-knocked-bike-new-8513576

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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jun 12 17:50:19 2023
    On 12/06/2023 04:50 pm, [email protected] wrote:

    The mum of a teenage boy who says he was knocked off his bike along a new chav lane by a driver allegedly watching Netflix on their phone is calling for the council to install CCTV cameras because the incident was not captured. The 16-year-old boy was
    riding home from school along Magdalen Road in St Leonard's by the junction of Denmark Road last Tuesday, June 6, when a car collided with him at around 4.40pm.
    The teenager was taken to hospital as a precaution. A chest X-ray confirmed he had not broken any bones and he has been described as doing 'fine' after the initial shock of the incident.
    Magdalen Road reopened only a couple of weeks ago on May 27 following nearly six months of works to turn it into a permanent one-way system to encourage walking and cycling and reduce traffic along the road. The one-way system has also been extended
    onto the Fairpark Road junction as part of a temporary trial.
    Following the bike incident, calls are being made for the council to install CCTV to make it safer for cyclists. The teenager's mum, who asked to remain anonymous to protect her son's identity, said: "The lady in the car was watching Netflix.

    How can she know that? Was she in the car as a passenger?

    "She just said sorry and she went.
    "My son was in shock so he didn't take a photo.

    Of what?

    He was lucky; he didn't have any injuries and nothing was broken. He was checked over in hospital and then we came back home.
    "He is fine but a camera should be there. It would have been great to find the person but unfortunately, there was no camera on the road so we can't do anything and my son didn't want to go to the police. It is a waste of time if we don't have any
    proof apart from a hospital health check and X-ray."
    The junction of Denmark Road and Magdalen Road where the collision
    Devon County Council and Exeter City Council has confirmed it does not have any CCTV along there and has no plans to install any.
    A Devon County Council spokesperson said: "We're sorry to hear of this collision but glad that the young man wasn't seriously injured. Unfortunately, there are no CCTV cameras in this area and we would not typically install them on our infrastructure
    projects. We would advise that this collision should be reported to the police."
    An Exeter City Council spokesperson said: "We currently don’t have any cameras in Magdalen Road. However, highways safety is the responsibility of Devon County Council."

    https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-teen-knocked-bike-new-8513576

    What exactly is the point of this pointless report?

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 12 10:05:17 2023
    On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 4:50:40 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
    QUOTE: The mum of a teenage boy who says he was knocked off his bike along a new cycle lane by a driver watching Netflix on their phone. ENDS

    A lorry driver on the M62 wiped out a whole family by watching porn on his phone and crashing into a car..

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  • From Simon Mason@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jun 12 10:12:34 2023
    On Monday, 12 June 2023 at 16:50:40 UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
    The mum of a teenage boy who says he was knocked off his bike along a new cycle lane by a driver watching Netflix on their phone.



    A lorry driver who was watching videos on his mobile phone at the wheel before a crash which killed three people has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

    Tina Ince, Alex Britton and Tom Watson were all killed in the collision along the A303 near Andover, Hampshire on 25 August 2021.

    Tina Ince, 58, from Portsmouth and Tom Watson, 30, from Southampton, had stopped to help Alex Britton, 28, also from Southampton, who had broken down on the westbound carriageway at Picket Twenty.

    Tom was driving a flat bed recovery vehicle and was on his way to another job when he stopped to help. Tina had been driving a food delivery truck.

    Michal Kopaniarz, 40, from Shropshire, failed to see the three stationary vehicles ahead of him on the carriageway as a direct consequence of being on his phone.

    He ploughed his heavy goods vehicle into them and all three were instantly killed.

    Kopaniarz pleaded guilty to causing their deaths by dangerous driving at Winchester Crown Court on January 18.

    Kopaniarz also admitted perverting the course of justice by destroying a Samsung mobile he was using at the time of the collision.
    Michal Kopaniarz, 40, from Shropshire, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving Credit: PA

    On Friday, February 24, Kopaniarz was sentenced to nine years and nine months for causing death by dangerous driving and two years and three months for perverting the cause of justice.

    During the investigation, police found dashcam footage that showed Kopaniarz breaking his mobile phone in half shortly after the collision had occurred and then discarding the two parts into the verge along with the SIM card.

    Having retrieved the broken parts, and crucially, the SIM card, the police were able to rebuild it and recover enough evidence to prove that Kopaniarz had been watching a video on Facebook at the time of the collision.

    Being distracted by his phone and not paying attention to the road meant that he collided with the vehicles, causing the untimely death of three people.

    Simon Jones, prosecuting, told the court previously: "This defendant knew in August 2021 that it was his dangerous driving that caused the death of three people and he knew that his destruction of his phone was done with a specific purpose."

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