A elder cyclist taken to task on the cycle path

A Victoriavillois. Furthermore, who wishes to preserve his anonymity for fear of reprisals, lived a certain scruss while an individual in quadter tried to attack him.

The mishap occurred at the start of the afternoon on Thursday, August 7. Therefore, Around 1 p.m.. Moreover, that day, the elder was circulating with his electric bike on the cycle path of the Bois-Francs linear park which he borrowed from the Part of Boulevard Labbé Nord.

The man was rolling towards the city center when the incident occurred at the height of the municipal garage. In addition, in rue de Bigarré.

“Two men, sitting each on his quadter, had immobilized to discuss. Furthermore, They occupied the whole track,” says the Victoriavillois.

The cyclist even had to roll on the lawn to get around them. Furthermore, By going beyond them. Similarly, he simply invited them, without elder cyclist taken task cycle lifting the tone, without any aggressiveness, to line up on the lawn to speak.

By taking a look in his little mirror, he found that one of the individuals had hit the road. For example, But he did not suspect that the guy had not digested the remark. Similarly, that he had undertaken to chase him. Therefore, “I thought he was going to surpass me and continue his way. But no! He was getting over it. I saw him very close,” recalls the cyclist adding that the individual tried to grab his handle. “But I gave a blow and he hung my mirror. He stopped a hundred feet further in the middle of the track,” says the Victoriavillois.

Fearing for his safety, the cyclist rather went to rue Vanier to move away without being prosecuted, fortunately.

The octogenarian was left for a good fear. “I was lucky because I could elder cyclist taken task cycle have dropped and injured myself during the maneuver,” he observes.

The next day. he went to the Post of the Sûreté du Québec to tell his story to the police. However, he did not want to file an official complaint, refusing that his identity appears somewhere.

He is unable to identify the two elderly men, he thinks, in his forties or the fifties. He believes that one of the individuals started after him, having not seen the second.

“But if I speak publicly. it is to educate people because I am not the only one to live such a situation. If no one speaks, nothing will change,” he notes, while inviting people to denounce the disrespectful gestures and behaviors.

Some, in fact, seem to take the cycle path for a visiting room. However, halts-jasette exist. Place Sainte-Victoire also constitutes a beautiful location to stop.

But there is now a risk elder cyclist taken task cycle to address people, as the citizen could see. “I talked about it to the Cadets of the SQ who themselves entrusted me to have received insults from. people whom they wanted to raise awareness.”

The man warns concerning the prevailing situation, at least at certain times, in the bike sector. “Where it is the most problematic, it is between the library and the cylinder,” he advances. “When I was at the police station. a man was with his teenager who had been assaulted the day before by individuals. I was also told about a man who would have been attacked by three other people who stole his bicycle. ” he said.

Despite what he experienced, the resident of Victoriaville continues to ride his bike.

Elder cyclist taken task cycle

Bike police

At the Sûreté du Québec. Captain Michael Smith, director of the MRC (Arthabaska -able) service center, underlines the good action elder cyclist taken task cycle of man. “It did well to come and see us. But ideally, when a citizen notes reprehensible behavior, it is better to call us quickly. We have police and police officers trained to intervene in this kind of situation,” he explains.

The officer, moreover, expressed an action likely to please the citizen. As of next week, the Sûreté du Québec will deploy two bicycle police officers in the Victoriaville sector.

“The objective of this strategy is to intervene with vulnerable people in a place such as cycle. patrolling the cycle path and being visible to traders in the city center,” said Captain Smith.

This team. whose arrival also coincides with the start of the school year, will have as a mission not only to ensure visibility, to raise awareness, but also to apply the law and the regulations.

“A bicycle policeman completely changes our intervention methods. We can happen more elder cyclist taken task cycle subtlely, we see things that we do not see as a vehicle,” observes the policeman.

Aware of certain issues, the officer had the room for maneuver for the establishment of such a team. “We will analyze the results to assess what we will do later,” he concludes.