On 13-Sep-2011, "Mrcheerful" wrote:

Doug wrote:
On 12-Sep-2011, Tony Dragon wrote:

On 12/09/2011 05:46, Doug wrote:
It could so easily have been a cyclist victim

or not

and it clearly shows that
pavements are not that much safer than roads.

It does no such thing.


"Man arrested after woman hit by car in Bedminster

OK


A woman in her 20s has been injured after a car came off the road
and onto
the pavement in Bristol.

Right


Emergency services were called to Cannon Road, in the Bedminster
area of the
city, at 13:15 BST on Sunday.

An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said the area had been
cordoned off
while officers investigated the scene.

Good


"The woman's injuries are not thought to be life threatening.

Good

A man, also in
his 20s, was arrested in connection," the force spokesman added."


We don't know what for.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-14872478


So nothing to do with cycling then?

Any potential source of danger on our roads and pavements is of
serious concern to vulnerable cyclists, much as you would like to
brush it all under the carpet.


then address the problem of the millions of cyclists that infest the
pavement every day.

Yes but they are not nearly as dangerous as millions of cars on pavements
every day. Cars may not seem dangerous when they are parked on pavements but
they only have to move a short distance slowly to be able to kill someone
easily, and sometimes they do. Of course, cars crashing on pavements and
damaging buildings, which they often do, are much more lethally dangerous
than bicycles being ridden on pavements.

Motorists try to blame cyclists for pavement use because they want to try to
brush their own pavement use under the carpet.


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