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[email protected] · August 1st 14, 12:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:11:16 -0500
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:05:13 -0500
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:44:30 +0100
Mizter T wrote:

https://twitter.com/JamieSmalley/status/494200837670182913/photo/1

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/7756

Absolute idiocy.

How do you know he wasn't doing a perfectly legal 30mph and suddenly
had to swerve because some pillock on a bike wandered into his path?
Seen those sorts of near misses a number of times. Most of the supposed
deaths by lorry were due to the cyclist not using any common sense.

He must have been going a fair bit to get across the subway like that.

Its not even a car length.

He had to get through the railing which is meant to resist vehicles, and

If you want to stop 1.5 tons of car doing 30mph - never mind a bus or HGV -
you're going to need something a big stronger than the railings I see there.

jump half the subway.

That car would straddle the subway. Do you think something doing 30mph stops
dead the minute it leaves the road?

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Spud