Mrcheerful wrote:

Judith Owen, 59, was coming out of Mr Chips in Rosliston Road, Burton,
when a man cycling on the pavement without lights on his bike collided
with her.

'A total of 1,043 pedestrians — around 20 a week — and 896 cyclists
plus motorcyclists and others were victims of motorists who drove off
from accidents without stopping in 2013.

There were 4,154 people injured on London’s roads in hit-and-runs in
2013, compared to 3,876 the previous year...'
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/eighty-hit-and-runs-each-week-on-londons-lawless-roads-9830590.html

'The Government has faced calls to clamp down on the growing number of
illegal motorists as an alarming rise in the number of hit-and-run
deaths was revealed.

In 2004, 145 people were killed in 23,714 hit-and-run incidents. There
were 119 deaths in 18,357 such crashes in 1997 when Labour came to
power. This is a 22 per cent increase in deaths and a 30 per cent rise
in the number of hit-and-run crashes...'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1515864/145-hit-and-run-deaths-prompt-calls-for-action-against-illegal-drivers.html

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john smith
'_The Guardian_. Wrong about everything. All the time'
(Anon)