Squashme wrote:
On 5 Aug, 20:59, "Mrcheerful" wrote:
JMS wrote:
Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain: Quarterly Provisional
Estimates Q1 2010 are published today:

Highlights - quite good news:

Figures cf year ending March 2009

Pedestrian casualties down 4%
Motorcycle casualties down 4%
Car user casualties down 2%
Motorcycle users killed or seriously injured down 4%
Pedestrian KSI down 8%
Car KSI down 8%

Excellent news; Oh - hang on there are a couple missing:

Pedal Cyclist casualties UP 4%
Pedal Cyclist KSI UP 4%

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

It looks like cycling is still more dangerous year on year.

that is purely caused by helmet, lights and hi-viz wearing, when
will they learn?


Don't try and make excuses for motorists, just apologise.

We don't need to do either. We are becoming impresively safer, cyclo****s
are becoming increasingly more at risk.

SNIP UNRELATED OT BOLLOX


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Dave - intelligent enough to realise that a push bike is a kid's toy, not a
viable form of transport.