Reduced speed limit saved boy's life.

QUOTE:
"THE parents of a teenage cyclist caught in a road smash will fight
for greater speed restrictions in residential areas after their son
"miraculously" escaped death on a busy main road just weeks after a
new 30mph zone was introduced.

"We thank the council for reducing the speed limit to 30 mph along the
stretch of road where Toby had his accident and the driver for keeping
to the limit because if the car had been driving faster the outcome
would almost certainly have been tragically different.

"As a family we will continue to campaign for lower speed limits where
children live, play and journey to and from schools."

http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/ne...lous-survival/

--
Simon Mason

On 03/08/2011 15:26, Simon Mason wrote:
QUOTE:
"THE parents of a teenage cyclist caught in a road smash will fight
for greater speed restrictions in residential areas after their son
"miraculously" escaped death on a busy main road just weeks after a
new 30mph zone was introduced.

It could be argued that if the speed limit were higher then the car
would already have been further along the road when he fell off
therefore no accident would have happened at all

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On 03/08/2011 15:26, Simon Mason wrote:
QUOTE: "THE parents of a teenage cyclist caught in a road smash
will fight for greater speed restrictions in residential areas
after their son "miraculously" escaped death on a busy main road
just weeks after a new 30mph zone was introduced.

It could be argued that if the speed limit were higher then the car
would already have been further along the road when he fell off
therefore no accident would have happened at all

Sure it /could/, but nobody would be silly enough to actually argue that
because it would amount to "if things were different then they wouldn't
be the same".

- --
Guy Chapman, http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
The usenet price promise: all opinions are guaranteed
to be worth at least what you paid for them.
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Abo wrote:
On 03/08/2011 15:26, Simon Mason wrote:
QUOTE:
"THE parents of a teenage cyclist caught in a road smash will fight
for greater speed restrictions in residential areas after their son
"miraculously" escaped death on a busy main road just weeks after a
new 30mph zone was introduced.

It could be argued that if the speed limit were higher then the car
would already have been further along the road when he fell off
therefore no accident would have happened at all

Not if he'd started further back.

BugBear

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 07:26:09 -0700 (PDT), Simon Mason
wrote:

if the car had been driving faster the outcome would almost certainly have been tragically different.

If they had never allowed him on a bike he wouldn't now be in
hospital.

On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:57:06 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
wrote:

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On 03/08/2011 15:44, Abo wrote:
On 03/08/2011 15:26, Simon Mason wrote:
QUOTE: "THE parents of a teenage cyclist caught in a road smash
will fight for greater speed restrictions in residential areas
after their son "miraculously" escaped death on a busy main road
just weeks after a new 30mph zone was introduced.

It could be argued that if the speed limit were higher then the car
would already have been further along the road when he fell off
therefore no accident would have happened at all

Sure it /could/, but nobody would be silly enough to actually argue that
because it would amount to "if things were different then they wouldn't
be the same".


Hello Porky

No-one could be silly enough to argue that if, over a period of 6 years, there
were just 7 posts to a newsgroup from one particular IP address and 5 of those
came from someone called Guy Chapman then the other two from someone called Lou
Knee were nothing to do with Guy Chapman.

But some ****wit argued exactly that.

--

Total number of posts to URC from
IP Address:80.254.146.36 over 6 years = 7

Guy Chapman : 5
Lou Knee: 2

Coincidence?
(Guy Chapman Dell Magnet)

On 03/08/2011 17:19, bugbear wrote:
Abo wrote:
On 03/08/2011 15:26, Simon Mason wrote:
QUOTE:
"THE parents of a teenage cyclist caught in a road smash will fight
for greater speed restrictions in residential areas after their son
"miraculously" escaped death on a busy main road just weeks after a
new 30mph zone was introduced.

It could be argued that if the speed limit were higher then the car
would already have been further along the road when he fell off
therefore no accident would have happened at all

Not if he'd started further back.

Good point :P

*but*, if he had started even further back then he'd have seen it in
time despite the extra speed

On 03/08/2011 17:40, Peter Parry wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 07:26:09 -0700 (PDT), Simon Mason
wrote:

if the car had been driving faster the outcome would almost certainly have been tragically different.

If they had never allowed him on a bike he wouldn't now be in
hospital.


If he had been trained to ride one he wouldn't be in hospital.

"when he lost control of his bike while cycling with friends".



--
Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a
legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a
vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton - Lancaster
University

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 07:26:09 -0700 (PDT), Simon Mason
wrote:

QUOTE:
"THE parents of a teenage cyclist caught in a road smash will fight
for greater speed restrictions in residential areas after their son
"miraculously" escaped death on a busy main road just weeks after a
new 30mph zone was introduced.

"We thank the council for reducing the speed limit to 30 mph along the
stretch of road where Toby had his accident and the driver for keeping
to the limit because if the car had been driving faster the outcome
would almost certainly have been tragically different.

"As a family we will continue to campaign for lower speed limits where
children live, play and journey to and from schools."

http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/ne...lous-survival/


"he lost control of his bike while cycling with friends at the junction of
Roebuck Rise and the A329 Oxford Road at Purley and was in collision with a
Honda C-RV on Monday last week. ""


ie ****ing about on their push-bikes to the detriment of other road users.
--
Simple Simon Mason - who cycles at 25mph in 20mph limits just because the limits do not apply to cyclists.
This includes exceeding the speed limit past three schools. A total disregard for the well-being of vulnerable road users.
The actions of a true psycholist.

On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:07:19 +0100, Judith wrote:




Hello Porky

The vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis (Chun, 1903), which
translates to "vampire squid from Hell", is the only known member of the
Order Vampyromorphida, the seventh order in the Class Cephalopoda and
combines features from both octopodiformes (octopuses) and decapodiformes
(squid, cuttlefishes, etc.) suggesting it may represent an ancestral
line between the two groups (Robison et al., 2003).


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snip

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If you are riding a bicycle you are winning.