{"id":637,"date":"2015-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Il prezzo di un ciclista &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mentre leggevo lo strillo del <strong>South China Morning Post<\/strong> questa mattina, non dico che mi ha preso un colpo, dal momento che vivendo qui conosco &#8220;usi e costumi&#8221;, ma da americana e anche non, devo ammettere lo shock &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lo strillo: &#8220;<em>Multato di HK$ 4,500 l&#8217;autista del van che ha causato la morte del cilcista inglese, ma assolto dall&#8217;accusa di guida pericolosa<\/em>&#8221; &nbsp;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Ecco fissato il prezzo della vita di un ciclista! Poco pi&ugrave; di &euro; 500 !!!!<\/p>\n<p>Il Banker <strong>Colin Robertson<\/strong> aveva solamente 39 anni quando l&#8217;autista di un van, <strong>Lam Wing-sang<\/strong>, lo ha centrato in pieno causandone la morte. Stava in sella alla sua bicilcetta da corsa dalle parti di <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">South Perimeter Road<\/span>, vicino all&#8217;aeroporto e non indossava l&#8217;apposito abbigliamento &#8220;notturno&#8221; che riflette le luci ed &egrave; fluorescente, ma una tuta nera &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Tanto &egrave; bastato per far sentenziare al giudice <strong>Debbie Ng Chung-yee<\/strong> della corte di Tsuen Wan che &#8220;l&#8217;imperizia nella guida e l&#8217;imprudenza della condotta del ciclista, hanno determinato il fatale incidente&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lam si &egrave; visto anche sospendere la patente per un anno &#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Credo che Hong Kong sia una delle poche citt&agrave; al mondo, Cina esclusa, dove i pedoni non hanno assolutamente l&#8217;ultima parola, anzi non ne hanno nessuna &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Jaywalking a Hong Kong &egrave; una delle cose assolutamente da NON fare perch&egrave; pericolosissimo &#8230; Anche solo camminare sul ciglio della strada o ai margini del marciapiede pu&ograve; essere fatale &#8230;. e non sto esagerando affatto &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HP&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; English Version &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hong Kong<\/strong>, <strong>China<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While reading this &#8220;screaming headline&#8221; in the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">South China Morning Post<\/span><\/strong> this morning, I was not caught off guard&#8230;..because I live here, but for other Americans and not, it might come as a shock &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Van driver fined HK$ 4,500 over death of British cyclist but cleared of dangerous driving<\/em>&#8221; &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So we now understand that a cyclist&#8217;s life is worth no more than 500 euro &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Banker <strong>Colin Robertson<\/strong> was only 39 years old when a 55 year old van driver, <strong>Lam Wing-sang<\/strong>, collided into him, killing him. He was riding his bicycle along the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">South Perimeter Road<\/span> near the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hong Kong Airport <\/span>and didn&#8217;t have the proper &#8220;night &#8221; clothing on. &nbsp;He wasn&#8217;t wearing the reflective and fluorescent clothing but dark ones &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>As she sentenced Lam in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tsuen Wan Court<\/span>, Magistrate <strong>Debbie Ng Chung-yee<\/strong> said, &#8220;<em>The defendants careless driving behaviour and the deceased&#8217;s unwise cycling on that road &#8230; led to the misfortune.<\/em>&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lam also had his license suspended for one year &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that Hong Kong is one of the few cities, where pedestrians do NOT have the last word, they actually have no word at all &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Jaywalking is one of the most dangerous things to do here and, just simply walking down a normal street, even on a sidewalk, can become hazardous &#8230;. I am not pulling your leg here, I am as sincere as can be &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mentre leggevo lo strillo del South China Morning Post questa mattina, non [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}