Paralysed, after hitting barrier, 'stupidest device I've ever seen' Options

[yeekin]

[suPerHerO]

makes you wonder how are things done at grassroots level eh?

just outside my room, where the carpark is, a bunch of contractors have torn up the road (again, for the 8th time prolly this 2 years) and have NOT covered it up and have NOT even appeared to work on it for the last 2 weeks. furthermore, i DO NOT see anything in that bloody hole, even there are cables ect in there, they shouldn't be left exposed to the elements correct?

and now it's raining on and off and that bloody hole will be a breeding cesspool for mosquitos. and the MOE wonders why there is a surge of dengue fever cases as of late.

isn't it nice that they newspapers don't say there's a dengue OUTBREAK instead?

[caleb_chiang]

Poor planning of installation of the barrier...

But we all know that cycling on overhead bridges are not allowed... Now got accident then blame the government...

[graphicleo]

i dun get it leh. wat barrier? how it look like? got pic?

[caleb_chiang]

Something like a inverted U shape... with enough space for one's bike to pass through it...

Hmm... thinking of this... could that 40 yr old try to do a stunt? Erm... I rest my case...

[Hadrian]

Don't understand why they can't just place speed bumps, or strips, like those on most other overhead bridges. Yes they won't stop people from cycling on them, but at least they won't injure them so heavily either.

The cause is apparently the contractor failing to put up the obstacle at both ends of the bridge on the same day. So essentially, it has become somewhat of a trap. If you cycled up the end without it, you wouldn't be expecting there to be one on the other end, so naturally you would cycle down the other end as well. Can just imagine the cyclist going straight into the thing without knowing what hit him...

40 yrs old and permanently paralysed...

[Shun]

oh my god~!! this is absurd!!

i really pity the man and his family. paralysed for life

do u really need to put such things to stop people from cycling? and nobody at LTA had EVER thought that such barriers are dangerous? it sounds like a TRAP to punish people who cycle. it might be wrong to cycle on the bridge or watever, but it doesn't give u the right to cause hurt or endanger an offender - there is no excuse at all!

Two others also rammed and hurt, so they would'nt do anything if this case didn't get so serious huh?

if this happened in the US, the LTA would be sued and the family will be compensated for the rest of the man's life. who is gonna provide for the family? What about the medical expenses? the compensation for the suffering?!

So what will the man and his family do now?

[blazin]

The underpass near my house also have but its green in color. It is a must because before the under pass is a steep slope around 40degree so if u don have that, most of the cyclist will speed down the slope.....

If there r ppl walking in the underpass n the cyclist is not reacting fast enough, there will probably have more accidents..........

[sunnycrowe]

There was a similar barrier near my place installed several years ago.... no reported accidents....

It was just an isolated incident... that poor man should know better that cycling on such bridge is not allowed... and i wonder how he did not notice the huge barrier and rode right through it (even with poor visibility at night)..... It was an unfortunate , some might say, careless incident...

Installing speed bumps are useless, cyclists will still cycle on the bridge and only slow down when approaching the bumps... worst still, another careless cyclist will "not" notice the bump and fly off the bump and cause another accident....

Heres what authorities shld do:

1) Come up with a barrier design that will deter cyclists yet allow pedestrian and wheelchair to access, without endangering the lives of all. ( i cant think of such design, really.)

2) Retain the current barrier design but replace it with a softer material.

3) Install some lights (lampost) near the barriers to warn cyclists

4) Build a bridge with steps instead of slope.. it will solve all problems..

[e3lipse]

barricade like to prevent bikes from going thorough easily
thats wat they are good at
blame the contractors

[marshal99]

I think the cyclist was speeding fast hence why he was injured so badly after he hit the barrier. He's a danger to himself and pedestrians , if he got injured , he got himself to blame. Sorry , no sympathies for the reckless.

[Sion]

[noelchiew]

althought it's sad and unfortunate that the man got paralysed, i would say he's completly innocent.

i see the words "ram" and to get so seriously injured, he obviously is cycling very fast. so why is he cycling so fast??? blame himself for speeding, just so typical of some human to put blame on other things just to comfort themselves.

come on, bikes no brakes meh? see cannot stop meh? seems like he's reckless also. i have to agree too that it's funny they only put one up instead of doing both in a day? what gives...

[jesuswasacoolguy]

the govt trying to push the blame to the contractor??

[hantona]

Actually My flat is beside the overhead bridge.
I can imagined how the poor man rammed to the barrier.
Imagine you had been cycle over the same bridge for about 3 years,
then you suddenly notice the barrer. Too late as you came down the slope from the bridge and ready to accelerlate to a up slope area.
I knew as I myself also do that.
My parents had just mentioned to me that the barriers being install and this incident happened.

LTA should BEAR part of the responsibilty to condition of the poor man.

Actually now at Pasir Ris, there are funny road barriers to prevent cyclists to ride fast which I think are very stupid designs.

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