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<\/a><\/p>\nA white VW Jetta accelerated to try and beat the robot turning red in Viking Road and connected Februarie at high speed from behind, flinging him some 50m through the air, after which the driver fled the scene of the accident. Februarie died on the scene from his injuries.<\/p>\n
A 32-year-old man from Langa was arrested later the afternoon after handing himself over to the police. He was charged with culpable homicide and reckless and negligent driving and taken into custody. He appeared in court on Monday 01 August.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are truly saddened by this unnecessary incident,\u201d said Pedal Power Association CEO, Robert Vogel. \u201cThis is even more tragic since the Western Cape was the first province to pass a \u2018safe passing distance\u2019 law in 2013, making it compulsory for motorists to pass cyclists with a berth of at least 1m.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vogel explained that statistics show 84% of cycling accidents are caused by vehicles connecting cyclists from behind at speed; not passing cyclists at a safe distance; or cyclists not being visible.<\/p>\n
The Pedal Power Association has for 40 years been promoting making our roads safer for cyclists. \u201cAs the safety of all our cyclists, from commuters to sports cyclists, is top of mind, PPA annually pours millions into a safe cycling campaign to educate road users about the vulnerability of cyclists on the roads,\u201d Vogel explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur objective is to educate all road users to be tolerant, respectful and courteous towards each other on the road,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The Association promote the slogans \u2018Please Share the Road\u2019 and \u2018Stay Wider of the Rider\u2019 throughout South Africa. \u201cAnecdotal evidence is that motorists are currently giving cyclists a wider berth, but there are still so many people who need to be educated on how vulnerable cyclists really are on our roads,\u201d Vogel said.<\/p>\n
A memorial service for Februarie will take place on Wednesday at 19h00, while his cycling club is organising a memorial ride to honour his life. The funeral takes place Saturday 7 August t 11h15 at the Desire of All Nations Church in Ottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just before 07h00 on Sunday morning 31 July, a cyclist was killed only three minutes away from his home in Thornton. The 41-year-old Randall Februarie, an IT Technician, husband and father of 3, was out for his usual early morning Sunday ride. A white VW Jetta accelerated to try and beat the robot turning red […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[270,685,269,2398,418],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-17777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-cycling-safety","tag-pedal-power-association","tag-ppa","tag-randall-februarie","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17777"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=17777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}