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Old July 16th 03, 11:46 AM posted to uk.transport,uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default the quest for safety

"Richard" wrote in message
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Well, it seems to be working!

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While I agree with much of what you say, the risk of dying due to cars is
more important to me as I can choose not to smoke, I can choose to live a
healthy life, but because of the way our towns are built, I can't choose

to
reduce the risk of me being killed by a speeding vehicle.


It would be a "badly driven vehicle" rather than a speeding vehicle. Speed
as a single factor doesn't kill.

The others are natural causes, or causes which we control personally.

And your 80% likelihood that the pedestrian is solely at fault is CR*P
chucked out by road lobbies trying to justify driving irresponsibly.


IIRC it was a survey by West Midlands Police that found in nearly 70% of
accidents it was the pedestrians fault. I don't consider the police "road
lobbies".

Mark
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