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Entrepreneur-photojournalist KF Seetoh took to social media to call the panel aimed at deciding whether bicycles should have brakes after a fatal incident with a fixed gear bike earlier this year.
A girl who died in January in a multi-story parking lot was riding her friend’s fixed gear bike down a slope in the building. These bikes generally do not have a handbrake.
The 13-year-old had started learning to ride a bike only when she was in Primary 6 and was still a newbie to cycling. The girl was found immobile on the ground level of the multi-story parking lot at Blk 526A Pasir Ris Street 51 on the afternoon of January 8. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.
The Active Mobility Advisory Panel announced last week (September 10) that it will discuss whether to require brakes for bicycles following the death of a girl riding her friend’s fixed gear bike in January.
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In a Facebook post on Tuesday, renowned food guru KF Seetoh wrote: “Hey political genius, the problem wasn’t the brakes. They are the brains ”.
hey political genius, the problem was not the brakes. They are the brains. You have to install and regulate the “how to use …
Posted by Kf Seetoh on Monday September 14, 2020
He noted that it would be more crucial to educate people on how to use bicycles on roads and walkways, citing examples where cyclists often expect road users to slow down when they go through a red light.
He added that cars often also have to “brake” for reckless cyclists, endangering passengers inside the vehicles.
During the fatal cycling incident, the girl’s friend said she was unable to keep up after she began cycling down the ramp from the seventh to sixth levels of the building.
While the friend asked the girl to turn right, she continued to advance directly toward the metal railing at the side of the parking lot and collided with her, he said.
“They told the court that they threw her out of the building, but she held onto the railing ‘momentarily’.
However, he was unable to maintain his grip and fell to the ground, the court heard. / ITGS
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