2023-09-03 Rider & pedestrians down / fatalities, Coventry

More on this terrible series of events and the victims:

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and sectioned under the Mental Health Act after two people were killed when they were hit by a car in separate collisions in Coventry.

West Midlands police said they detained a 33-year-old man after a series of collisions in the city at about 8am on Sunday. They confirmed that the incident was not being treated as terror-related.

Two pedestrians were hit on Gosford Street in the city centre, one of whom, aged 44, died from their injuries. A 47-year-old cyclist was killed when he was hit by the same vehicle on Woodway Lane, about four miles away on the north-east outskirts of the city.
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The driver of the car then crashed into a house on Beckbury Road, where he fled the vehicle, and police called in a drone team and dog unit to help locate him before he was arrested at about 9am.

Flowers and candles were being left at the scene where the cyclist was killed. He was returning home from a night shift at the nearby University hospital less than a mile away, where he was a support worker.

He had two children, both of whom had left messages addressed to their father. “I wish I could turn back time to at least tell you I love you one last time,” one read. “I will try to be a better daughter and sister, so please don’t worry about us.”

The other read: “You were a good dad. Thank you for taking care of us.”

Friends and colleagues who were leaving flowers at the roadside described him as a “very happy man” who was “always helping people”. “It’s so horrible for the family,” one said.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/04/man-sectioned-after-fatal-collisions-in-coventry