Re: Gobsmacked


Matt B wrote:
> Even the danger element is comparable, given bicycling accounts for less
> than 1% of the annual passenger mileage

Not if you compare like for like, ie compare roads where both cycles
and cars can legally travel. Then the proportion of people killed by
cyclists is much lower.

And per journey the differences are much greater still.

> in the UK each year, and that
> only a fraction of the annual RTCs each year have a car driver as the cause.

Stupid statement. Only a fraction of the annual RTC's do not have a
falling tree as the cause.

...d

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