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Leadsom's edited her webpage so it makes no sense. She's deleted the bit about Rhiannon being on the pavement (which is also what she claimed in the House of Commons), then left this in:
"If Rhiannon had been killed by a car which had mounted the pavement, the driver would have faced a sentence of up to 14 years in prison."
http://www.andrealeadsom.com/home/dangerous-and-reckless-cycling-10-minute-rule-bill/265
A student who knocked down and killed a grandmother as she read a text message while driving arrived at court today to hear her sentence clutching her mobile. Keisha Wall, 20, carried the device into Reading Crown Court before she was jailed for two and a half years for causing the death of 63-year-old Christine Lyon in Reading in February last year.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375700/Texting-motorist-killed-OAP-jailed-turns-court-carrying-mobile-phone.html#ixzz1JOyuAF00
I doubt Andrea Leadsom is a frequent cyclist or competent MP.
She's had three years to check what actually happened in Rhiannon's case and she still gets it wrong. I used to commute along the Lee and Regents canal, if a gang of youths who'd been drinking blocked my way I would probably want to get away from them. Leadsom is exploiting the grieving parents just as much as the media exploit James Bulger's mum and wheel her out to express her horror and sadness at something or other.