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Old March 21st 06, 02:31 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Default Motorist drives along pavement

David Hansen wrote:

The unacceptable face of motoring (and some pedestrian groups who
are not au fait with the real dangers those they claim to represent
face) often imply that only cyclists ride along pavements.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4827894.stm is about a
motorist driving along a pavement, in the course of which he injured
six people, one very badly.

True to form the police appear to have already gone out of their way
to excuse the motorist. Other groups in the motoring lobby will no
doubt follow their lead.


Tragic, but hardly a case of a motorist deliberately driving on the
pavement. If anything, this incident should lead to calls for an end
for the obsession with leaving decomposing flowers and soggy teddybears
at the site of every accident. ISTR a few years ago someone was very
nearly run down by a train while attempting to place flowers on the
actual railway track where someone else (who was trespassing) had been
run down and killed the day before.

All the funds that are squandered on rotting roadside "memorials"
should instead be collected and given to the surviving relatives to
help cover the (often quite steep) funeral expenses.

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