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Old June 21st 04, 06:56 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling,uk.transport,uk.transport.london
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Default Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:01:34 +0100, JohnB wrote in
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I thought it was BeHit who put 25000 children into containers.


Tee-hee! :-)

From the **** Happens department - BeHIT keep saying that cycling is a
leading source of death and head injury in children, but:

- over twice as many children die from congenital abnormalities as
from cycling
- more children die of leukaemia than from cycling
- more children die following assault than a cycle crash
- more children die from asthma and other respiratory diseases than
from cycling
- over twice as many children die of brain cancer than cycling head
injuries.
- as many children die of menigitis as of cycling head injuries.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBAS...eets/D8257.xls

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