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Scott Peoples was an Australian road racing cyclist with an emerging career in professional cycling before his death at the age of 20 in a training accident in regional Victoria.〔 〕 Before his death he had won two stages of the Tour of Southland and placed 3rd overall in the Tour of Tasmania.〔 He was a member of Australia's youth cycling team and a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=News - Latest News )〕 ==Accident and inquest== On 15 December 2006, Scott Peoples was struck from behind by a Nissan Patrol four-wheel drive while training on a two lane country highway in Merton, Victoria, and died at the scene. The 73-year-old driver of the vehicle, Kenneth Blay, later pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving and was fined $3000 and disqualified from driving for 3 years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BFA e-news June 2008 edition ) 〕 People's family pressed the Victorian Coroner to hold an inquest into his death on the grounds of how such a collision could occur on a clear day, along a straight stretch of road, with a cyclist wearing bright coloured clothes. The Coroner accepted the request and hearings started in August 2008.〔 The Bicycle Federation of Australia was invited to make a submission to the inquest.〔 The inquest heard evidence that Kenneth Blay suffered a stroke three years before the accident, suffering loss of vision and was told by a doctor not to drive. The court also heard Mr Blay hit another cyclist in 2004 in similar circumstances, causing the rider to suffer a broken leg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cycle crash inquest told of driver's poor sight )〕 The lawyer for the Peoples family submitted to the Coroner that he consider recommending legislation making it mandatory for doctors to report any person they believe unfit to hold a licence to VicRoads. Hearings in the inquest, case number 4776/06, were concluded in December 2009. The coroner's findings are expected to be delivered after several months. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scott Peoples」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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