Cyclist kills OAP

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On 25/08/2019 17:11, MrCheerful wrote:
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bikesexual - Urban Dictionary

https://www.urbandictionary.com › define › term=bikesexual
The sexual attraction of a man towards a bike, commonly small bikes or
children's bikes.

ps: There is help out there for you.

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Bod

On 25/08/2019 17:11, MrCheerful wrote:

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Oh, come off it.

We have it on very good authority (here) that it isn't possible for a
cyclist to do any serious damage.

This has to be fake news.

On 25/08/2019 23:54, JNugent wrote:
On 25/08/2019 17:11, MrCheerful wrote:

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Oh, come off it.

We have it on very good authority (here) that it isn't possible for a
cyclist to do any serious damage.

This has to be fake news.

Doesn't appear fake to me when you consider the horrendous total of
deaths on the roads worldwide.

More should and could be done to drastically reduce this figu

Annual Global Road Crash Statistics
View the WHO’s infographics on road safety facts.

Nearly 1.25 million people die in road crashes each year, on average
3,287 deaths a day.
An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled.
More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages
15-44.
Road traffic crashes rank as the 9th leading cause of death and account
for 2.2% of all deaths globally.
Road crashes are the leading cause of death among young people ages
15-29, and the second leading cause of death worldwide among young
people ages 5-14.
Each year nearly 400,000 people under 25 die on the world’s roads, on
average over 1,000 a day.

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Bod

On 26/08/2019 03:36, Bod wrote:
On 25/08/2019 23:54, JNugent wrote:
On 25/08/2019 17:11, MrCheerful wrote:

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Oh, come off it.

We have it on very good authority (here) that it isn't possible for a
cyclist to do any serious damage.

This has to be fake news.

Doesn't appear fake to me when you consider the horrendous total of
deaths on the roads worldwide.

Whoosh!
More should and could be done to drastically reduce this figu

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Road traffic crashes rank as the 9th leading cause of death and account
for 2.2% of all deaths globally.
Road crashes are the leading cause of death among young people ages
15-29, and the second leading cause of death worldwide among young
people ages 5-14.

Those figures - which are oddly and ambiguously expressed - could be
"improved" by measures to increase the incidence of death from other
causes. Then road accidents would decline as a proportion. Would that be
"good"? You'd have a job convincing me of that.

More sensibly, I'd like to see deaths from other causes fall further,
even if it means that deaths from road accidents then become the Top of
the Pops "among young people ages 15-29" and "young people ages 5-14".

I feel relatively sure that the writer you quoted - and yourself - meant
something subtly different.