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Police received a report of the traffic accident on Tuesday at 9.48.
The man reported that a Toyota taxi on the street had stopped disembarking a passenger. At the time, a woman on a bicycle was huddled in the suddenly open door of a parked car.
The doctors went to the scene.
The victim was diagnosed with a leg injury.
Subsequently, the news spread on social networks that the participant in this traffic accident, a woman on a bicycle, was the Deputy Minister of Finance, Rūta Bilkštytė.
In his Facebook account, he shared the circumstances of the accident, explaining that in the morning, while he was driving on a bike path on Gediminas Avenue, the car suddenly stopped in front of his nose, the passenger door was opened and then the impact did not it could be avoided. .
“How much blood will it take for bicyclists to spill for police officers to actually detect bike lanes blocking cars? How much blood will be needed for greener transport?
I think this requires better infrastructure for cyclists, which has really been improving lately. But infrastructure will not help if there is no culture, ”commented R. Bilkštytė in his post.
The deputy minister was also outraged that the cars on Gediminas avenue stop in the bike lane, thus endangering the risk of injury to cyclists.
However, drivers of vehicles in the center of the capital are not usually penalized for this offense.
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