Please consider letting us make things safe enough that people we love stop getting killed
[Republished with the kind permission of David Slack, from More than a Feilding newsletter, 7 April 2022]
Another half second and she might have been dead, our daughter. How would the news story have described it? Probably: a young woman cyclist died today in the CBD in a collision with a tow truck.
Instead there was just a broken bike, and half a second made all the difference.
There was a tow truck, belting through the streets the way they do at haulaway rush hour....