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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!w6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <737ae901-40d5-4ad1-83e3-520ea0244d53@w6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Deliberate Ramming Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:31:25 -0700 (PDT) References:   <8u99d1FuitU1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 17 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300199485 3333 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2011 14:31:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2085 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:802477

On Mar 15, 1:54=A0pm, Tony Raven  wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > If the only account of the incident is from someone that didn't see > > the event, and didn't see the events immediately preceding the event, > > =A0how does the spokesman know it was deliberate? > > In the US its known by the acronym SWSS - Single Witness Suicide Swerve > where the driver swears the cyclist suddenly swerved in front of them > and the dead cyclists fails to challenge it.

And of course only a car-hater would automatically jump to the conclusion that the driver was lying. Maybe the cyclist swerved to avoid a pothole or an animal running out? Maybe they suddenly got a puncture? Maybe they had a fit? But no, the evil motorist shouldn't be driving in the first place, so must take the blame for all collisions regardless of actual fault.