On 14-Sep-2011, "Mrcheerful" wrote:

Doug wrote:
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.


There is a massive difference between deliberate use of the pavement by
cyclists and inadvertent use by motorists , mainly the one of intent. I
regard an injury caused by someone deliberately taking an action as being
more serious than an injury caused by someone accidentally taking an
action:
Just the same as any reasonable man and the law.

You forget, motorists intentionally drive onto a pavement in order to park
there, during which they pose a risk to pavement users. Sometimes motorists
also have to drive along the pavement to a parking place. It can also be
argued that the moment a driver climbs into his car and drives off there is
intent to use a highly dangerous machine in public places, thus posing a
risk to others and especially when there is loss of control of that machine.

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