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What is the biggest cause of road accidents in the UK?
On 03/12/2019 09:28, NY wrote:
"JNugent" wrote in message ... On 02/12/2019 20:25, Bod wrote: On 02/12/2019 20:19, JNugent wrote: On 02/12/2019 20:15, Bod wrote: The most common cause of accidents is to driver error. Over 100,000 (108,479) crashes occured in the UK due to cars suddenly braking, drivers failing to look properly, poor car maneuvering and/or loss of control.2 Jul 2018 How interesting. What does it have to do with cycling? Cyclists cause a fraction of that amount of accidents. You have no idea of the number of accidents in which cyclists are involved (as cyclists). There are far more powered vehicles on the road than bicycles on the road (apart from in large towns, maybe) and they go faster so can cause more damage if things go wrong. So it is hardly surprising that they will be the cause of more accidents. The potential seriousness of the effects of an accident is one thing and you are obviously correct in what you say about that. But accidents befalling motor vehicles on the highway (and which cause injury or damage( have to be reported to the police and so may be accounted for in official statistics, to a nicety. Accidents befalling cyclists do not have to be reported. There is thus no way of knowing how many there are. I doubt that many cyclists who fall off their bikes - or have other accidents short of injuring themselves so badly as to bneed emergeny hospital treatment - report that to the police for official purposes. But cyclists are not *always* blameless. Consider a cyclist who rides through a red traffic light into the path of other traffic, or who pulls out of a side road. Other traffic brakes hard to avoid hitting him; maybe one of them skids and hits other vehicles/pedestrians, or is rear-ended. The cyclist is not hit, and continues unaffected. Is that cyclist blameless? Now consider the same situation where it was a car, not a cyclist, who went through a red light or pulled out of a side road; is that car driver blameless? In my mind, both a blameworthy to the same extent, but there is a philosophy that accidents are always "not the cyclist's fault". Quite so. |
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