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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!r27g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <02d17efb-123d-421d-aca3-acb258ea408b@r27g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cyclist hits granny in pavement crash in Brighton Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:53:47 -0800 (PST) References:            <100pn4tfquu9schc04vu1ubg83ef59jgvv@4ax.com>  Lines: 42 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.151.152.80 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1232949227 10762 127.0.0.1 (26 Jan 2009 05:53:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r27g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.151.152.80; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3763 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:684016

On Jan 25, 4:06=A0pm, _  wrote: > Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:39:16 -0000, "pk"  said > > in : > > >>> Which does not actually change the documented fact that pedestrians > >>> are far more likely to be injured on the footway by motorists than > >>> cyclists. > > >> I think the fact that is documented it the number of reported injuries= not > >> the number of injuries per se, there is after all a legal duty to repo= rt > >> motor accident causing injury there will be close to 100% reporting of= car > >> related injuries but a far lower proportion of the minor cycle/pedestr= ian > >> collisions will be reported. > > > Reporting of injuries does indeed vary according to severity and > > cause. =A0Nearly all fatalities, and most serious injuries, are > > recorded. =A0Trivial injuries are mostly unreported, we can only infer > > things form the relative prevalence of those injuries which are > > reported. =A0For example, we know that half of all injury admissions > > to hospital are due to simple trips and falls, and many of these are > > on footways. =A0My council says that the major cause of footway trips > > is damage to the footways by motor vehicle encroachment. > > > probably better, though, to stick with the figures we do have rather > > than suppositions. =A0And also probably better to look to the causes > > and how they might be fixed, rather than advocating draconian > > responses to the symptoms. =A0Especially since the symptom is, in many > > cases, entirely legal now. > > BWAHAHAHAHAHAA! Ah shit, sorry, I normally try and not rise to Chapmans > idiocy but this time I couldn't resist. Now he wants to blame cars for > incidents on the pavement even when they're not *there*!!!

That is pretty fuckwitted, even for him. When will he realise that no- one is falling for his "I don't hate motorists" bollocks, and it just makes him look like the lying twat that he is?