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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!y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1e4b8efb-0b2d-404a-9bdc-f204a95fb197@y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Reporting near miss to police - any point? Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:32:37 -0700 (PDT) References:   Lines: 17 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.150.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1244899957 29683 127.0.0.1 (13 Jun 2009 13:32:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:32:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.150.242; 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: 2167 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:709561

On Jun 13, 12:49=A0pm, Judith M Smith  wrote: > > What had you done to cause him to take this action?

It doesn't matter. He's a cyclist, so he can do what he likes, and it's still always the driver's fault. Anyone who's selfish and irresponsible enough to be driving in the first place has to accept the consequences whenever anything happens, even if they didn't actually do anything wrong on that occasion. That's the price you pay for daring to put yourself in charge of a ton of metal: every time you collide with a more vulnerable road user, it's your fault, end of story.

Personally I have grave doubts that the reported incident happened as described, or even at all. But how like the usual suspects to automatically believe every word in order to take the opportunity to indulge in some more motorist-bashing. Business as usual on URC.