Petronella Wyatt: Just how many times has her mother been run over by cyclists?

So he's a 'youth' and a 'lycra lout'...don't really go together do they!?
Also Patronella (sic) does seem to have a few unsympathetic friends...they each seem to like sniggering at the unfortunate 'buzzing' of the 'old dear' and her propensity for attracting cyclistic injury and ailment....her mother is elderly and frail...she seems to get about a bit on her own though..(and at night)...shouldn't she be chaperoned?...maybe the the cyclist should be 'chapeau' 'roned...
It all smells fishy...in no way do I condone any bad cycling, but I think there appears to be a wee bit too much 'artistic' license (geddit) to this 'story'...what difference, indeed, does she think a license would make to either situation...even motorists have been known to 'flee the scene of an accident'...and a good lot of those (of which I am one...it's my primary mode of transport....) have valid licenses.....
'She was run down by a bicycle.'- surely she was knocked over by a bicycle...or did the hooligan actually need to bunny hop (the coffin dodger)...dear, sweet, frail old lady....was she on the road, was she at a pedestrian(pelican/belisha)crossing.
Perhaps she had escaped from her nursing home on more than one occasion. Perhaps Petrolheadonella is a liar, I can't say for certain, I hope her mother is on the mend, physically and (mentally- she did call her kid Petronella)however she came about her limb shattering experience...
I'm off down the precinct to buzz some oldies on my 13 year old's GT BMX....gnarly braaa!!

Type her name into the Daily Mail search engine and see just how many stories there are for her ...

COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLS••T PROPAGANDA from Middle Englands favourite rag..

DISGUSTING!!!!!!!

Have we considered the possibility that Petronella's mother is magnetic, and has been attracting bicycles to her body? That would explain her extreme bad fortune.

And also her collection of nails, bolts and iron filings.

On the plus side, if she drops her keys down a drain, she can easily get them back, and she can always work out which way is north.

As the eagle eyed reader in question I have doubts whether the incidents related by Petsy ever happened. The fact she doesn't state her mum has been hit not twice but three times is distinctly fishy. Sounds like she lifted the text from the earlier article but didn't want to flag this fact to the newspaper paying her for original content so didn't add a link to the earlier article. Any normal person would certainly wish to highlight the fact this was the third such incident in two years.

Naturally, a normal person wouldn't get off on writing bile for the Daily Mail but let's say Petsy is right and her mum has been kit three times by cyclists. It would be victim-blaming of us to state this is the fault of the pedestrian. If there are doddery old dears crossing Regent Street responsible road users ought to slow down in their presence: and that goes for motorists as well as cyclists.

I once hit an old woman crossing a road. I had a green traffic light. She had a red but crossed anyway and didn't look. I was executing a turn and my view was blocked by pedestrians standing still. In law it was the old lady at fault but nevertheless I should have known there would be folks crossing the road on red and should have been ready and able to stop.

This was at a point where I knew there would likely to be a problem. It would be different on a clear stretch of road where it would be more unusual to have pedestrians leaping without looking but, still, we're sharing the road and if we expect motorists to give us room and consideration we ought to do the same for pedestrians.

Maybe all pedestrians by law should only be allowed to cross at designated crossings once the crossing has notified road users to stop?
As for newspapers and the media in general, i dont agree with it, i dont read it and i dont beleive a word it says.

Cycling license or no cycling license, i wont be getting one, and i will carry on riding regardless.

people are quick enough to moan about their own safety, but wont act to do anything about it. Like looking before crossing the god damn road!

Q: "Just how many times has Petronella Wyatt's mother been knocked over by rogue cyclists?"

A: Not enough

(do I win?)

Being a avid cyclist in London for 4yrs I have been witness to many near misses and incidents involving myself others. In that time I have had 2 crashes knocking me off my bike caused by other cyclists. Near misses usually come in the form of either cars turning left in front of me without Indictcating, cars coming from my left at round abouts (particularly scary!). The most near misses I have and are usually daily are pedestrians stepping into the road and not using crossings. I do take an offence is best defence type attitude but consider myself to be very aware while riding and I think it's that has prevented me from having a serious accident from other peoples poor actions.

On the flip side, I also get to witness other cyclists bombing through lights of various colours (usually not wearing a helmet). I have also had a friend seriously hurt while crossing at a green crossing light by Victoria station.

Basically it comes down to this: Everybody needs to take some personal responsibility for thier actions.

Cyclists need to know they are road users and therefore obey the road laws

Pedestrians need to remember one of the first lessons in life, look both ways before crossing the road!

Drivers need to obey road laws as well and remember their actions can easily kill.

We also need balanced commentary on the whole subject not ranting and raving and inaccurate reporting slanted towards your own agenda.

apart from the usual comments that have already been made about DM quality, a red light in london is bound to be covered by cctv from somewhere and if an ambulance was called the police would likely have been notified as well etc.

Love the way she describes the 'convulsions' of amusement each time as well. Will be very interesting to see if these incidents did indeed occur. But then, if she says that yes they did, but no the Police weren't called, then short of interrogating the old dear or checking confidential medical records, you can't really argue (can you?).

Ex-lover of Boris Johnson. Writes for the Daily Mail. Goes by the name of Petronella.

Don't you think she's suffered enough?

did the PCC thing yesterday, IF the lady was indeed hit by a cyclist then i would hope that the police would investigate.

However i don't believe it ever happened and this is nothing more than incitement.

Hang on.

"The 64-page TRL study reports that police blamed adult cyclists for, at most, 25 percent of collisions where cyclists were injured. Motorists were to blame for up to 75 percent of all injury incidents involving adult cyclists."

That doesn't add up. "At most 25%" plus "up to 75%" *could* add up to 100%, but only if "at most" and "up to" both mean "exactly" -- and if they did then those phrases wouldn't be in there woolying up the figures. And even they did, then you'd logically infer that either in no incident were both parties to blame, or that in up to 25% of incidents there was somehow no-one to blame.

Oh, and: Unsubstantiated and/or wildly-opinionated editorial bile? What were you expecting from the Mail and the Standard?

Sounds like the Mail may have been short of a comment piece and so recycled most of an old one with a few new parts.

I think I'll fill out the PCC form tonight as well. Lets see if the story stands up to a little more investigation.

More hatred, lies and distortion from the Daily Hate? Now there's a surprise. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story seems to be the motto with Ms Wyatt.

All pedestrians should be required by law to wear helmets.

I think I may have met her mum, or someone like her. Riding through a village at the weekend an old lady step out into the road after first looking left and not looking right.. thankfully for her (and me) I thought she was going to do just as she did.

Typical Daily Mail bullshit.

Maybe someone should suggest to her that her mother look at what traffic is coming before stepping out into the road, in future.

Not condoning any kind of hit-and-run incident, but the majority of these types of accidents could easily be avoided if people didn't step out into the road without looking.

I submitted a complaint to the PCC, on grounds of a false, inaccurate or misleading article. I wasn't alleging that it was false - can't prove that - but that the veracity of the stroy ought to be tested, and in any case there are inaccuracies or misleads in it.

Unless of course Petsy really does have "friends" who she imagines would laugh at her mother's misfortune.

As you say it is not good to make light of a road traffic accident. However, she does seem to have a serious hatred for cyclists in general.

If this had happened to my mother, I would be requesting help from the public to try and identify the culprit so he/she can be brought to justice.

Was her mother crossing the road at a proper - well lit - crossing? And did she actually look before crossing? I've known car drivers to ignore crossings completely narrowly missing pedestrians.

Perhaps pedestrians should have a license to allow them to cross the road.

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