Injured Perth cyclist urges road users to put phones down
A cyclist has told how his life changed in a matter of seconds after he was hit by a car at an intersection in Ardross.
Ian Beard is now in traction in Royal Hospital and believes all road users drivers and cyclists need to change their ways to prevent more deaths.
Mr Beard was knocked out colpatagonia better sweater on saled by a car driven by a driver who did not see him. When he woke up, he found the impact had resulted in three fractured vertebrae and spinal damage.
While it could be as long as six weeks before the full extent of his damage is known and a long road to rehabilitation lies ahead of him at Shenton Park, Beard says he will continue to campaign tirelepatagonia better sweater icelandic hoodyssly for road users to show more courtesy to each other.
He told Radio 6PR the accident, which was caught on CCTV, was worse than he had thought.
I ve seen the CCTV footage and it was a lot more horrific than I imagined, he said.
It was pretty violent but that s just how things can change in a matter of seconds.
I was knocked out cold after I went over the top of the car. I have a recollection of hitting the vehicle but nothing much after that.
A fireman who rides his bike to work and competes in local cycling events, Mr Beard said people needed to take responsibility for their actions.patagonia day pack reviews
He was also quick to point out that smart phones had made the situation on roads much worse for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.
As a cyclist, there s no way we should be allowed to ride two abreapatagonia winter guide pantsst on thpatagonia guide glovese roads, we need to look at changing that rule, he said.
We should all have a fair share, cars, pedestrians and bikes.
People just need to be a bit more considerate and just have some situational awareness.
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They don t even look and I don t know how many more people aren t killed or injured because they don t even look where they are going.
Mr Beard said he was determined to return to cycling.
I ll just take it day by day and try my hardest with the physio and stay positive and hopefully cycle out of Shenton Park some time this year, he said.
I am sceptical that the data shows that smartpatagonia better sweater on sale2 phones are a significant problem.
1) The rate of serious injury and death has continued to decline on a per capita per annum basis throughout the explosion in popularity of smartphones.
2) Anecdotally, there is an extraordinarily high level of phone use while driving. This is why the police can catch so many, in a short amount of time, with so few officers. Extrapolate this across all vehicle trips and it seepatagonia better sweater on sale0ms that a very,patagonia outlet store 3462 very significant proportion of trips involve some phone use. Investigations of accidents are finding that drivers have been using phones only partially because phones are causing accidents. but also partially because there is just an enormous amount of phone use.
I can t see that the isolation of phone use has been shown (at least from what I can find) to be much more significant than radio dial use, cigarette use, or chatting to a passenger.
I am all for the effort to make roads safer. It would be interesting to see if the Road Safety Council have a conclusive study that points to extraordinary danger from phones. Such evidence would have to show that the state was reasonably expecting a massive decline in deaths / injuries but only achieved a slight continual decline due to smart phone use.
Thu Jul 31 05:10:28 UTC 2014
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