What age are these kids? Are they of an age that they should be able to look after themselves a bit?
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A knack and a dose.
An unfortunate meeting.
Yes it is.
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Thanks
Little cunts
State of that prick
E bike cunts and other cyclists on a path need belted about the place
Sense of entitlement nowadays is fuckin dire to behold,
Fat bitch munching away like gerbil while on the number 8 bus yesterday afternoon
Used the outside seat to put her pastry and coffee etc
Couldn’t believe the obese tramp left the coffee cup lid and her wrappings shirt her on the seat
I mean come on FFS,
Not even basic norms of bringing your rubbish with u as u exit,
Bin outside the bus as fatty ambles off
Jogger injured by e-bike feels ‘let down’ over Garda failure to prosecute
Karl Leonard’s landmark private prosecution opens door for possible compensation
KARL LEONARD WANTS GREATER PUBLIC AND GARDA AWARENESS ABOUT THE LAW ON RIDING E-BIKES. FROM LEFT: STEPHEN DUNNE, DUNNE’S E-BIKE AND LEONARD’S LEG AFTER HE UNDERWENT SURGERY. PHOTOGRAPH: ALAN BETSON
When he set out for a jog on a Sunday night last August, Karl Leonard never imagined he would be floored by a high-powered e-bike.
He was left clutching his smashed left foot in a desperate effort to keep it intact as bones protruded from his leg.
Leonard was running on a public footpath, shared with cyclists near Swords, Co Dublin, when the e-bike “came speeding around the corner”.
“I thought, ‘He is going to hit me’. I tried to dodge, he did too, but it was too late,” he says.
The impact was so loud that a man who arrived at the scene told him he had heard it from inside his house and came to investigate.
Leonard was in such shock after the incident that he was initially unaware of the pain.
“You would be amazed what adrenaline can do,” he says. “I think the survival instinct kicked in, my foot was dangling loose and I was trying to hold it together.”
Stephen Dunne, the e-bike user, stayed at the scene, but was so distressed and incoherent when phoning for help that a woman who arrived took Dunne’s phone from him and gave directions to the 999 operator, Leonard says.
Fire brigade paramedics arrived and put his leg in a splint and gave him pain relief while he waited for an ambulance.
“Every time my leg moved, I could feel the bones moving against each other, it was agony,” he says.
Two gardaí arrived and one spoke to Leonard briefly and he says he was told that what had happened was “not a Garda matter”.
Leonard was taken by ambulance to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, where he underwent a nine-hour operation to save his foot. Doctors told him his left leg was broken in seven places and he had “dozens” of smaller fractures.
After two weeks in hospital, a plastic surgeon directed his immediate discharge home to recover because he feared the open wound in his leg could become infected in hospital.
Leonard went to his parents’ home in Howth, Co Dublin, and returned regularly to hospital for specialised dressing changes and reviews.
Leg pain and mobility issues
Nine months later, the 48-year-old has not fully recovered and the leg breaks have not fully healed. He continues to have leg and knee pain and mobility issues, all putting him at a far remove from last August when he was planning to run a half marathon.
Last Tuesday, Dunne, of Russell’s Terrace, Kettles Lanes, Drynam Hall, Swords, was fined €250 at Dublin District Court after pleading guilty to careless driving.
Leonard believes Dunne, a father of three on Jobseeker’s Allowance, is genuinely remorseful. The plea included acceptance the e-bike was a “vehicle” under the Road Traffic Act 1961, as amended, which makes it an offence to drive a vehicle in a careless or dangerous manner.
Section 3.1 defines a mechanically propelled vehicle (MPV) as one intended or adapted for propulsion by mechanical means, including a bicycle equipped with an auxiliary electric motor greater than 0.25 kilowatts.
Leonard claimed the specifications of Dunne’s e-bike, including having a 750W brushless motor and maximum speed of 20-25km/h, made it an MPV.
The significance of being a vehicle or MPV means the user is required to be insured.
Leonard’s landmark case has brought it home to users of high-powered e-vehicles they may be held liable in civil and criminal proceedings for any injuries caused as a result of collisions with other road users.
Gardaí took a cautioned statement from Leonard six weeks after the incident and he expected them to bring a prosecution.
The absence of progress in that regard led to his lawyers advising him to take a private prosecution before the six-month time limit ran out.
Leonard feels “very let down” with the Garda “inaction” on the matter. The District Court’s acceptance that the private prosecution was a valid one underlines that there was a clear basis to prosecute, he says.
“The gardaí did not do their job and seemed unaware of the law about e-bikes. It’s disgraceful I was left in this position.”
He says he was “very lucky” that his legal team – solicitor Lisa Daly of EP Daly & Company Solicitors, of Dublin, and barrister David Staunton – were “on the ball” because, without the private prosecution, pursuing compensation would be more difficult without proof Dunne was driving a MPV.
Because Dunne was not insured to drive the e-vehicle, Leonard intends to join the Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland, which compensates those injured by uninsured drivers, to a pending personal injuries action.
There is a “pressing need” for gardaí and e-vehicle users to be properly educated about the law relating to use of e-bikes, e-mopeds and e-scooters, he says. He has complained to Fiosrú, the new Garda complaints body, about the alleged Garda failure to properly investigate the incident and he is awaiting a decision.
“Since this accident happened to me, a lot of people have told me they know about of others involved in similar accidents,” he says.
“Users of high-powered e-vehicles don’t seem to realise they need to be insured, taxed and licensed and should only be driven on roads. Something needs to be done.”
There seems to be alot of effectively electric mopeds on the cycleways which should be seized by Gardai. These are not E pedalic bicycles, but mechanically propelled vehicles that should be insured and taxed. IMO this is an enforcement issue that needs to be properly policed by the Gardai.
Same with the deliveroo bikes, not classed as bike
The one in the news isnt even a bike
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When cagers kill kids mate, they argue not to have their licencse taken away
This lad has missed the key point in this case which is that the finding in the Court that the vehicle was a mechanically propelled vehicle allows the victim to sue the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland who compensate where somebody is injured by an uninsured mechanically propelled vehicle. I wouldn’t be surprised if MIBI contest this finding because if it sticks the floodgates could open in terms of claims and ultimately the cagers will pay in higher insurance premia.
Yeah, the issue is with the term ebike used by the media
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After reading this article i have come to the conclusion that Karl is not a cunt. My bad as the young folk say.
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Cagers, killing kids since 1900
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in 2016.[2] That is, one person is killed every 26 seconds on average.
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Fair play to you. I was gonna add you to the list of strange hills lads have died on on TFK
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@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy back on the chain gang