Respect is the route to safety

What a terrible tragedy that a young girl should die because a cyclist ran into her, having shouted at her to move when he could have swerved around her.
Her parents are angry the rider was only convicted of dangerous cycling and fined £2,200 - not even the maximum.
Who can blame them?
Another family is grieving; a lorry driver in Hampshire was fined £250 for careless driving after pulling out of a junction and killing a cyclist.
Both punishments seem paltry when put against the loss of a life, and the families deserve justice, but is that really the point of these two stories?
Surely the lesson to be learned is that everyone who uses the road should drive, and ride, with other people in mind.
Cyclists should not speed along pavements, jump lights and ride the wrong way down one-way streets.
And motorists should make it safer for cyclists to ride in the road - then more would do so.