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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <46ba581d-a1a4-46db-9419-c6d54bbce4f5@o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.legal,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: "Boy killed as car mounts pavement" Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 02:13:01 -0700 (PDT) References:  <49FD449D.4B02E0BA@sizef5353553itter.com> <6c67cda0-5bdb-499c-b880-400a72126f59@m24g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <49FD492E.9BB087F7@sizef5353553itter.com>  <_82dnbjK8fXU0WDUnZ2dnUVZ8jKdnZ2d@bt.com>  Lines: 69 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.154.123.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1241341981 28852 127.0.0.1 (3 May 2009 09:13:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 09:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.154.123.12; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 4536 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:829048

On May 3, 9:02=A0am, "Brian Robertson"  wrote: > Brimstone wrote: > > Mrcheerful wrote: > >> johannes wrote: > >>> Doug wrote: > > >>>> On 3 May, 08:15, johannes  wrote: > >>>>> Doug wrote: > > >>>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8030641.stm > > >>>>>> "An 11-year-old boy has died after a car mounted a pavement and > >>>>>> crashed into a group of pedestrians in Bristol. > > >>>>>> The female driver of the white Ford Focus left the scene of the > >>>>>> incident in Fastfield Road, Westbury-on-Trym, leaving the boy > >>>>>> trapped underneath. > > >>>>>> A man was treated for minor injuries, while three other children > >>>>>> at the scene were not injured. > > >>>>>> Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash, which happened > >>>>>> at 2115 BST on Friday. > > >>>>>> The woman has been described as white, with long blonde hair and > >>>>>> in her mid-30s." > > >>>>>> Any bets as to the driver's punishment if any? If pavements are > >>>>>> no safe from drivers where is? Children are sometimes killed by > >>>>>> cars even in driveways too and the walls of bedrooms are > >>>>>> demolished by crashing cars. Isn't it also ironic that cyclists > >>>>>> ride on pavements to try to avoid dangerous drivers? > > >>>>> Tell me Dough, how often does this happen that someone is killed > >>>>> by a car while walking on the pavement, and the car is officially > >>>>> registered, insured, MOT and the driver has full driving licence > >>>>> and not intoxicated? And don't add up the statistics this way: > > >>>>> Number of cars driving (or parked) on pavements =A0plus... > >>>>> Number of cars driving otherwhere than roads plus... > >>>>> Number of pedestrians killed (or nearly killed) > > >>>> How many times does it have to happen for you to care, Joann? > > >>> Exactly what to happen? The driver hasn't been found, so this is not > >>> related to the system of regulated car transport in general. It is > >>> more like a criminal act, the driver will be found and end up in > >>> prison. > > >>> Do you want me to stop going to work by the only means of transport > >>> possible, having a clean accident record for 40 more years and never > >>> caused any trouble? Who then will pay the taxes for your services? > > >> What about that cyclist that deliberately and pre-meditatedly rode > >> into a group of youngsters on a pavement and killed a young girl? > >> What should happen to him? =A0The maximum fine is only 2000 pounds, no= t > >> much for a life. > >>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2263354/Cyclist-knocked-down-a..= . > > > Can I caution the members of this group to be careful how they treat > > Doug's anti-car posts. He is intent on destroying this newsgroup just > > as he almost destroyed uk.transport. > > An amazingly sensible post, considering it is you!

Heh. You're both nobheads, but you happen to be correct in this instance.