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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!s16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1cf1cd98-2400-4a38-94cd-218f0ce6d25b@s16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,uk.transport Subject: Re: Another motherless family? Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 18:32:33 -0700 (PDT) References:     Lines: 52 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242523953 2874 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2009 01:32:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 01:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; 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: 3542 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:829288

On May 17, 12:43=A0am, JNugent  wrote: > Tom Crispin wrote: > > On Sat, 16 May 2009 22:59:08 +0100, Judith Smith > >  wrote: > > >> On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:08:53 +0100, Tom Crispin > >>  wrote: > > >>> Police were called on Friday evening May 15 to the junction of > >>> Woolwich Road and the Kent-bound A102 in Greenwich following a > >>> collision between a lorry and a female pedal cyclist, a police > >>> spokesman said. > > >>> London Ambulance Service attended. The woman was pronounced dead at > >>> the scene. Police had not yet been able to establish her identity. > > >>> The lorry did not stop at the scene. It is described as having blue > >>> material (e.g. canvas, or plastic sheeting) on its side. Anyone who > >>> witnessed the collision or has information that may assist police > >>> should call the Collision Investigation Unit at Catford Traffic Garag= e > >>> on 020 8285 1574. > > >>> Greenwich Cyclists have placed a white bike and flowers at the scene. > > >>>www.britishschoolofcycling.com/photos/whitebike.jpg > > >> How long do you leave it there before you remove it? > > >> Don't you think it could add to the injuries of any cyclist turning > >> left and becoming trapped between a lorry and the railings? > > > Another Judith classic! > > > Any cyclist turning left at the photographed junction would be cycling > > the wrong way down a slip road from a road where cycling is > > prohibited. > > Oh, do come off it. > > You either know the junction or you don't. > > And there's no shame in not being a habitu=E9 of SE London.

And then there's the laughable assumption that cyclists never cycle the wrong way down one-way streets (especially in London, where they're foolishly thinking of legalising such behaviour "because so many people do it"). I've never seen a cyclist on a road where cycling's prohibited, but I'm in no doubt that it happens, given the attitude of many of the cyclists on here that cyclists should never be stopped from doing anything due to their using a morally superior form of transport.