The breakfast food ad on Channel 7 before the shot of the dead motorcyclist was in particularly bad taste.
I heard an ABC radio report overnight that a rider died. It said the car turned across the path of the bike. If it's the same fatal and the car did fail to give way, this is disgracefully biased reporting.
A complaint should be made to the media authority ....
I forgot, where riders are concerned there is no media authority that will help.
If this crash was the fault of the car drive, the police media unit, true to form, blames the victim
Damien
Police are looking for witnesses to the fatal crash in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton on Friday night May 2 or early Saturday, May 3 2014. A young male on a motorcycle died. The Channel 7 report was 19 seconds of bias in my opinion.
Police warned riders to take extra care. It looked to me like the road was in reasonable condition with good street lighting. It looked to me like the car turned in front of the rider. If so, there would have been no excuse for not giving way.
The ABC reported they think a man stopped to assist and moved the bike. The man may have given the victim CPR. Police want to talk to him.
I have not heard that police will charge the car driver with anything.
I would very much like to assist the rider's family if I can and I would like observe at any Coroner's court hearing. To do that we need the name of the victim. If anyone reading this can help, please send the information to d.codognotto.oam@bigpond.com or phone 0419 846 855. It can be anonymous.
Too often in these cases the victim is blamed for the crash because of his/her choice of transport while the driver gets off lightly or scot free. Remember the cupcake killer?
Damien
IRG
Police are looking for witnesses to the fatal crash in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton on Friday night May 2 or early Saturday, May 3 2014. A young male on a motorcycle died. The Channel 7 report was 19 seconds of bias in my opinion.
Police warned riders to take extra care. It looked to me like the road was in reasonable condition with good street lighting. It looked to me like the car turned in front of the rider. If so, there would have been no excuse for not giving way.
The ABC reported they think a man stopped to assist and moved the bike. The man may have given the victim CPR. Police want to talk to him.
I have not heard that police will charge the car driver with anything.
I would very much like to assist the rider's family if I can and I would like observe at any Coroner's court hearing. To do that we need the name of the victim. If anyone reading this can help, please send the information to d.codognotto.oam@bigpond.com or phone 0419 846 855. It can be anonymous.
Too often in these cases the victim is blamed for the crash because of his/her choice of transport while the driver gets off lightly or scot free. Remember the cupcake killer?
Damien
IRG
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