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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe27.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,uk.food+drink.misc,uk.rec.driving,uk.transport Subject: Re: Hit me at 30 and there is an 80% chance I'll live. Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:20:45 +0000 References:  <05bac69e-8ed5-4b84-b756-650dbaa4d275@e38g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> 	 	<62830170-077c-4554-bc2e-0573027e4216@d19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <0259651e-ff06-40d4-ac8b-87a71412809d@e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> Lines: 53 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0259651e-ff06-40d4-ac8b-87a71412809d@e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.12.82.202 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe27.ams2 1237501258 86.12.82.202 (Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:20:58 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:20:58 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 4375 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:690170

Doug wrote: > On 18 Mar, 15:10, Toom Tabard  wrote: >> On 18 Mar, 07:38, Doug  wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 17 Mar, 18:47, squas...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> On 17 Mar, 18:21, Sylvia Wood  wrote: >>>>> Hit me at 30 and there is an 80% chance I'll live. >>>>> Hit me at 40 and there is an 80% chance I'll die. >>>>> Hit me at 80 and I'll fall down the stairs and break my hip. >>>> "Hit me with your rhythm stick >>>> Hit me, hit me >>>> Das ist gute, ce fantastique >>>> Hit me, hit me, hit me >>>> Hit me with your rhythm stick >>>> It's nice to be a lunatic >>>> Hit me, hit me, hit me" >>>> "Mr Justice Griffith Williams said that the 80 year old had not been >>>> wearing a helmet. The judge is the first to express sympathy for the >>>> view that this omission put the OAP at fault >>>> and made him partly responsible for his own brain damage. >>>> "There can be no doubt that the failure to wear a helmet may expose >>>> the pensioner to risk of greater injury," he ruled. Subject to >>>> limitations, "any injury sustained may be the pensioner's own fault". >>> Let me guess, he is a motorist? When are we ever going to get unbiased >>> courts which are not dominated by a particular faction? >>> So, it follows that we should all be wearing comprehensive body armour >>> to avoid the risk of greater injury which might be caused by another >>> person. Failing that we risk being blamed as a vulnerable victim who >>> happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, instead of the >>> injurer. Oh wait though! This only applies on our public roads. If we >>> are struck and injured in virtually any other location it would be the >>> injurer who automatically would be blamed. >> No. It can (and does) apply to any claim for negligence in >> circumstances where there are reasonable or standard precautions which >> the claimant could be expected to take to protect him/herself from >> injury. It's a concept which has applied in law for about 200 years: >> the specific current staute law is Law Reform (Contributory >> Negligence) Act, 1945. Nothing restricts it to public roads. >> > The problem is how blame is apportioned and by whom. I maintain there > is an inbuilt bias against vulnerable road victims. Firstly, it is in > the financial interest of vehicle insurance companies to ensure that > the vulnerable victim is blamed. Secondly, the police, courts and > local governments are dominated by motorists. Thirdly, it is in the > interests of the national economy, according to how things are > presently structured, to encourage car use as a means of accessing > retail outlets. Fourthly, modern public roads are primarily designed > for fast vehicular traffic which therefore discriminates against slow, > vulnerable road users. > Piss off back to your lentils you senile old turd