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On 03/08/2011 15:57, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > On 03/08/2011 15:44, Abo wrote: >> On 03/08/2011 15:26, Simon Mason wrote: >>> QUOTE: "THE parents of a teenage cyclist caught in a road smash >>> will fight for greater speed restrictions in residential areas >>> after their son "miraculously" escaped death on a busy main road >>> just weeks after a new 30mph zone was introduced. > >> It could be argued that if the speed limit were higher then the car >> would already have been further along the road when he fell off >> therefore no accident would have happened at all > > Sure it /could/, but nobody would be silly enough to actually argue that > because it would amount to "if things were different then they wouldn't > be the same".

Just like no-one would be silly enough to actually argue that wearing a helmet didn't improve safety if they wore a helmet themselves. At least no-one who was remotely honest or sane.