On 17/08/2012 21:13, Phil W Lee wrote:

Kim Bolton :
Dave - Cyclists VOR wrote:

Although deaths and injuries fell significantly for motorists,
pedestrians and motorcyclists, the number of cyclists killed rose for a
third consecutive year. Deaths rose by 7% from 104 in 2009 to 111 last
year, although the DfT says the number of cyclists rose by just 0.5%.
The cycling casualty rate is, however, well down on the average annual
death rate of 186 during 1994 to 1998.

1998 was 14 years ago, and 2009 - 11 saw a rise in cyclist KSI,
against the trends of lower traffic volumes and slightly-rising
cyclist numbers.
This is not good news for those who say that individual cyclists are
safer because of the increasing numbers, and one must ask what it is
that cyclists are doing wrong.

Since this rise is also affecting pedestrians, it is far more likely
that the motorists are the ones doing something wrong.
A brief survey at any roadside will confirm that few, if any,
motorists drive completely within the law.
It's interesting that this rise in death and serious injury among
vulnerable road users has come about in the period since the
government announced "an end to the war on motorists".
It seems that many motorists regarded that announcement as a
declaration that road traffic law would no longer be enforced, and it
is noticeable that few police forces do enforce the law in respect of
driving, despite it being by far the most common cause of traumatic
death and serious injury in the country.
So it's probably due to politically motivated neglect of duty on the
part of the police and CPS.
By apparently directing this neglect, Hammond should be charged with
conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, along with all the senior
police officers who colluded in allowing the carnage.

And given the sheer weight your opinion carries within the judicial world,
M'Lud, that amounts to a praeconium ex cathedra.

Ignore it at your peril, ye Princes, Officers and Ministers of State and of
Crown and serried ranks of the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal.