2 weeks ago, my partner was hit by a speeding car that failed to stop. He has a broken pelvis, broken bike, and broken spirit and yet, we - alongside people that know and love us - keep saying "how lucky we were" that the outcome wasn't worse.
While this is absolutely true, I also can't help feeling very resentful. We are lucky not to have been killed cycling home from work on a 30 mph road. Really? How low do we want that bar to be?
*CORRECTION* speeding driver. Not car. The fault is with the person behind the wheel (infrastructure, funding, attitudes yada yada), not their mode of transport.
Please don’t use this thread to campaign against cars. Use this thread to campaign for safer cycling: actions over words. Ask your councils and elected officials to prioritise vulnerable road users and hold them to account on delivering improvements. Oxford has £2.9m to spend.
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