A ten-year-old girl who died when a lorry hit her on her way to school was wearing earphones when the incident happened, an inquest heard.And immediately became another statistic that told us London traffic must be institutionally racist, I suppose?
The coroner said it was a “tragic death” and that he hoped his recommendations would help minimise the chance of it happening again.Those recommendations being to not wear anything that reduces your chances of hearing the lorry that's about to squash you?
Ha ha ha ha ha! No. Of course not. Everything's the fault of someone else, now, remember?
He said that he would be writing to the department of transport calling for better management of roadworks. That would include barriers being more sturdy as vandals often dragged them off.So when the new, sturdier barriers fall on some toddler & kill them, some other coroner can demand lighter ones, I suppose?
He said that more attention to safe routes for pedestrians should be addressed when roadworks are carried out.There was a safe route. But I guess he's never heard the expression 'You can take a horse to water, but...'?
Well, to be fair, you can't really expect a ten year old to understand the concept of spatial awareness - but you could be excused for expecting the Coroner to grasp it - no?
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing 'the older generation' has survived. Walking 1 - 2 miles to and from primary school each day, unaccompanied, along narrow roads.
ReplyDeleteDarwin was right.
Spacial awareness prolongs the life of a species.
I actually looked, albeit briefly, at the report.
ReplyDeleteThe 'Aims' part tells you all you need to know.
I feel I am living through the last days of Rome before the Barbarian hordes ransack the place.
A once great country, trashed ! And all because we became complacent about the world and our place in it.
Eyewitness Abdimasad Abdulle (Labour, Peckham) ... said, speaking through an interpreter: “One earpiece seemed to be in the ear and another on the ground.”
ReplyDeleteWell, the lorry driver did not sound his horn as he did not see her, and you're unwise to rely on your ears overly with the plethora of bicycles and hybrids.
@ Joe Public
There weren't as many foreign drivers then.
"...but you could be excused for expecting the Coroner to grasp it - no?"
ReplyDeleteIndeed. But all coroners seem to develop a bad case of 'something must be done!' syndrome.
"I feel I am living through the last days of Rome before the Barbarian hordes ransack the place."
Ditto!