Cyclist down: Mayo 29 May 2017

Chuchote

http://irishcycle.com/2017/05/29/man-airlifted-with-critical-injuries-after-car-and-bicycle-collision-in-co-mayo/

A man who was cycling a bicycle was airlifted to hospital yesterday afternoon after a collision with a car driver on the main road between Ballina and Killala in Co Mayo.

Sergeant Margaret Flanagan of the garda press office said: “A road traffic collision occurred at 16.45 on the R134 at Rathroeen. A pedal cyclist was in collision with a car and was taken via air ambulance to Mayo University Hospital with critical injuries. The matter is under investigation.”

magicbastarder

do the gardai have some sort of style guide where they usually refer to the cyclist in a way which makes it sound like they were the one to crash into the other vehicle?

Grassey

In fairness that statement is rather neutral.

Cyclist collided with car Vs Car collided with cyclist - both implies fault on the former.

Saying X was involved in a collision with Y is a statement of fact with no fault implied.

Chuchote

It used to be the way that you had to write that an x and a y were involved in a collision.

But that was in the days of seven-year apprenticeships to journalism with concurrent professional courses.

papu

Poor guy, hope he makes a recovery

cython

magicbastarder wrote: »

do the gardai have some sort of style guide where they usually refer to the cyclist in a way which makes it sound like they were the one to crash into the other vehicle?

Grassey wrote: »

In fairness that statement is rather neutral.

Cyclist collided with car Vs Car collided with cyclist - both implies fault on the former.

Saying X was involved in a collision with Y is a statement of fact with no fault implied.

Chuchote wrote: »

It used to be the way that you had to write that an x and a y were involved in a collision.

But that was in the days of seven-year apprenticeships to journalism with concurrent professional courses.

Interesting that Sticky Bottle seem to be reversing the trend, by using partisan language that sides against the motorist, while in the next breath conceding that fault/blame is uncertain (though their spelling of the word "collision" reveals the standard of "reporting" I feel we can expect from them:

A cyclist is critically ill in hospital after suffering serious injuries in a collission in Co Mayo.

The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon at about 4.45pm on the R134, the road between Ballina and Killala.

A motorist driving a car collided with the injured man, who was knocked off his bike.

The exact cause of the collission is not yet known but is under investigation by the Garda.

Chuchote

I don't really want to discuss this on a thread about a very sick man. I'll talk about it over in J&K's Party Bus maybe?

Beasty

I've just deleted a post that was completely inappropriate given we are talking about someone who has been critically injured.

Can I also ask posters to drop the comments about terminology used when reporting these incidents. It seems to crop up every time someone starts one of these threads and we just go over the same ground again and again

Any questions PM me

Thanks

sprite0

Sad news. The cyclist involved in this collision passed away last night. RIP.

Chuchote

Terrible news. The tenth person killed on a bike on the roads of Ireland in five months. RIP

jon1981

Terrible I didn't see anything in the news about it yet.

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Fcuk.
R.I.P.
This is too much now, really too much.

magicbastarder

jon1981 wrote: »

Terrible I didn't see anything in the news about it yet.

on irishcycle.com:
http://irishcycle.com/2017/05/31/man-confirmed-dead-after-cycling-collision-on-sunday/

jon1981

jon1981 wrote: »

Terrible I didn't see anything in the news about it yet.

Was also mentioned on the bulletin on Morning Ireland on RTE radio 1

jon1981

And we are only halfway through the year

Chuchote

jon1981 wrote: »

And we are only halfway through the year

40% through the year, I think? (Arithmetic not my thing, though…)

tomasrojo

Chuchote wrote: »

The tenth person killed on a bike on the roads of Ireland in five months. RIP

Terrible alright. It's the ninth person though. One of the ones that was counted previously wasn't cycling at the time, so he's gone into the pedestrian statistics, I think.

mr spuckler

tomasrojo wrote: »

Terrible alright. It's the ninth person though. One of the ones that was counted previously wasn't cycling at the time, so he's gone into the pedestrian statistics, I think.

correct, the guy that died on james st in Dublin.

RIP to this man and the lady in Kerry.

onmebike

Really awful news again. RIP to both of these people.

sprite0

The human face of the latest statistic
https://m.facebook.com/Ballina-Cycling-Club-401900079894742/