To the south of my home city of Bristol, England, there’s a bustling shopping road called North Street, filled with independent stores and bars. It’s the kind of road that is filled with life, but it also has a dual purpose as a busy road out of the city, so there is always traffic. It nominally has a 20mph speed limit, but that is seemingly disregarded by many of the motorists that use it. It’s the kind of road which would make a lot more sense without cars, or at least fewer.
On Sunday, a cyclist was killed on that road by a hit-and-run driver. In broad daylight. Not that there are ever any excusing factors in this, but this was an ordinary Sunday. As of Tuesday, little has been released about the victim, or the incident, only that a man died on the scene, and two further men were arrested, after the car was located.
