68YO Man Knocked Down by High-Speed Cyclist Who Was Allegedly Using HP at Lakeside

Here are a few reasons why you shouldn’t use your mobile phones while driving any sort of vehicle:

1. You could knock into stationary objects
2. You could knock down other people
3. You could knock down elderly people
4. You could do any of the above, and land yourself in trouble.

68YO Man Knocked Down By Cyclist

On Thursday (17 June), a post on the ROADS.sg page was published, detailing an accident that had occurred involving a cyclist and a pedestrian.

The post was written by the son of the pedestrian who had been knocked down, who can be called Jovi from the post.

The incident took place on Wednesday (16 June) night, around 9.30pm along Yuan Ching Road.

According to the post, Jovi’s 68-year-old father had been knocked down on the pavement by a bicycle when he was on his way to his stall. Carrying two big bags of packed chilli sauce,  he had just finished crossing the road when a bicycle with a female cyclist “came at a very high speed and knocked him down from behind.”

Jovi’s elderly father had immediately fallen on impact and hit his head against the ground. As a result, he allegedly blacked out for a few seconds.

When he came to, he was “already in a pool of blood”, wrote Jovi in his post. In the picture that accompanied the post, a dark pool of blood can be seen on the pavement, along with several drops of blood surrounding the pool.

An elderly man wearing a pink shirt, presumably Jovi’s father, can be seen sitting up from the ground, even as his head and neck area is covered in blood.

Jovi wrote that according to an eyewitness, the cyclist had been using her mobile phone prior to the accident. Furthermore, there were no lights installed on the bicycle.

Jovi says that an assessment of the injury indeed revealed that there was a big impact seemingly caused by a hit from a fast object.

Son of Pedestrian Cautions Other Cyclists

Using his father’s incident as an example, Jovi urged all other cyclists and riders to “ride at a safe speed” on pavements shared with pedestrians, especially pavements that were narrow.

Jovi further added the doing so would give riders “ample time to react”. He emphasised the importance of this, writing that senior citizens “are old and their reaction is slow”. Hence, they “[don’t] have time to react” if they suddenly appear to be in the way of riders.

A very good lesson on “driver” responsibility is then given: Jovi states that “this is when the rider plays an important part” by ensuring that they themselves are given ample reaction time in order to avoid such accidents.

Other than asking riders to “install lights at the front and back of the bicycle” if they were going out at night, he also stated that riders should “stop [your] bicycle at a side first” should they want to use their mobile phones.

Additionally, Jovi also urged authorities to create more cycling paths, pointing to the “significant rise of riding hobbyist and..food delivery riders” as evidence of its necessity.

“There’s a saying in Chinese that the road is like the mouth of a tiger but with so many riders on the pavement nowadays, a pedestrian walkway can be a mouth of a tiger too,” writes Jovi at the end of his post.

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