Two cyclists have been killed by hit-and-run drivers in Birmingham in the last two weeks — adamtranter has called for an urgent meeting, saying 'the pace of the delivery of schemes to protect vulnerable road users needs to be accelerated'
"I am writing as two people cycling have been killed in Birmingham in just over two weeks by hit-and-run drivers," he wrote."We cannot accept this as normal. Everyone should feel safe using our roads but through a combination of design, policy and enforcement priorities, this is not the case.
"A big difference could be made by focusing on what seem like low-level offences, such as illegal number plates or anti-social parking, but that often lead to other more serious road violence and other crimes that blight our communities. There is a huge disparity between the focus these issues are given between neighbourhood team areas, exacerbated by worrying downward trends in prosecutions via third-party dash-cam reporting from members of the public.
Highlighting a further incident, on Friday 26 May, Tranter continued:"Just last Friday, a cyclist was taken to hospital with potentially serious injuries on Bristol Road South, near Longbridge Island, after a collision with a motorist held on suspicion of driving while unfit through drugs. I said we often know the problems and the solutions.
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