There was blood on the track as I made my way to work yesterday morning. Yes, actual human blood, a substantial patch of gore, slowly drying on the bonded gravel surface of a busy cycle path. It was, I happen to know, the blood of a cyclist, involved in what I must call a 'collision' with a far faster, far heavier electric bike. This took place on Sunday. My wife, Eve, saw the horrible aftermath, but not the crash, and arrived home soon afterwards, white-faced and shocked, saying: 'It could have been me.' ...read
PETER HITCHENS: The fresh pool of blood on our local cycle path which makes me despair of the government's utter complacency over the deadly menace of e-bikes
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