The Australian: Teen charged over hit-and-run death
A teenager has been charged with manslaughter over a fatal hit-and-run at Port Douglas, in far north Queensland. Police allege the 18-year-old Port Douglas man was driving the vehicle which hit and killed a 25-year-old female cyclist and injured a male pedestrian on Wharf St in Port Douglas [...]

Courier Mail: Woman killed in hit-and-run
Two people have died on Queensland’s roads, including a cyclist killed in a hit-and-run incident involving a four-wheel drive. The female cyclist, who was aged in her 20s, fell off her bicycle and was run over by the 1980s model Land Rover Discovery, as it drove off in Port [...]

Downtown Express: Trial of driver who killed cyclist is delayed
The trial of Eugenio Cidron, 27, charged with vehicular manslaughter and D.W.I. in the Dec. 1, 2006, death of cyclist Eric Ng, 22, on the West Side Highway bike path, has been postponed for the fifth time. On June 20, a N.Y. Supreme Court judge delayed [...]

The Age: Judge lashes MPs over low penalty
A Judge has criticised MPs for ignoring repeated calls to increase penalties for drivers who cause serious injury. Judge Thomas Wodak launched his broadside yesterday as he jailed a drink-driver who tried to cut off another motorist and slammed into a power pole, leaving his nine-year-old daughter [...]

Adelaide Now: Death driver on bond
A speeding driver who killed a cyclist in a “moment of stupidity” has avoided jail but not the grief of his victim’s family. Anthony Steven Doulos wept yesterday as he was sentenced in the District Court to a two-year jail term which was suspended upon him entering a three-year [...]

ABC Online: Judge calls for sentence increase for negligent injury offences
A Victorian victims’ group has supported a call for an increase in the maximum sentence of five years for the offence of negligently causing serious injury. Judge Thomas Wodak of the Victorian County Court has called for the increase after sentencing a man over [...]

ABC Online: Judge criticises law-makers over negligence jail terms
A Victorian County Court judge has criticised law-makers over the maximum jail terms for people found guilty of negligently causing serious injury. During sentencing this morning of Colin Gibbs Wilson from Bayswater over a road rage incident, Judge Thomas Wodak called for an [...]

The West: Father jailed despite daughter’s pleas
A road rage driver is behind bars for causing brain damage to his nine-year-old daughter, despite her teenage sister’s pleas to a judge to spare their father from jail. Colin Wilson, 40, of Bayswater, was involved in a road rage incident and ensuing smash on Stud Road, Rowville, in [...]

Globe and Mail: Bogota’s urban happiness movement – From living hell to living well: A radical campaign to return streets from cars to people in Colombia’s largest city is now a model for the world
On a clear, cloudless afternoon, Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogota, leaves his office early in order to pick up his [...]

Inner West Courier: Cyclists catch the bike bus
Safety in numbers and increasing traffic congestion around the Inner City have spurred the growth of a “bike bus” initiative in Marrickville. Bike bus was started in 2001 by Marrickville Transport Action Group’s Fiona Campbell when she began riding with a friend who didn’t feel confident cycling by [...]