Anger after Montreal cyclist hits child about to board school bus with lights flashing
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Global News watched three cyclists ignore the stop sign and flashing lights on two school buses on Friday afternoon alone, not far from where a person on a bicycle hit a child.
Several residents on Jeanne-Mance Street in Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal borough say cyclists passing a stopped school bus with its lights flashing happens multiple times each day.
“I just sat in front of my house and I witnessed another cyclist going right through a stop sign with a school bus letting kids off,” says Mayer Feig who lives on Jeanne-Mance.
On Friday afternoon Global News witnessed three cyclists ignore the stop sign and flashing lights on two school buses letting children off, not far from where a person on a bicycle hit a child who was about to board a school bus Thursday.
The child’s family didn’t want to speak to media Friday afternoon, but Feig says the accident doesn’t surprise him.
“The same thing happened to my son a year ago, and to another neighbour a few months ago,” he told Global News right before a school bus driver screamed at two more cyclists ignoring the flashing lights on the stopped bus.
Feig says some mothers are now afraid to let their kids walk to the bus.
Magali Bebronne of cycling advocacy group, Vélo Québec, says she too is appalled by the accident but insists the law isn’t being adequately communicated.
“Well, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about rules,” she explains. “The truth is, it’s only since 2018 that this particular article of the highway code has been applied to cyclists.”
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