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Originally Posted by Kursk
Accidents are an inevitable fact of life. I might have an accident in my car, on my motorbike, as a cyclist or as a pedestrian. Some people have an accident in their pants whilst typing from their armchair  .
Perhaps all pedestrians should be made to wear a registration plate? They can have personalised numbers like FAT50.... |
Really? You don't say?!
Anyway, carry on avoiding the questions and making yourself feel better by posting puerile drivel.
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Originally Posted by dave6x
Only nearly? They were lucky! I'm a regular walker doing several miles each day and I have been run into twice by cyclists illegally riding on footpaths, and suffered a fair amount of foul verbal abuse for "being in their way" on narrow footpaths! Much more dangerous at night when over 90% of cyclists seem to think that they can ride without lights on the footpath!
One of the safest places to walk locally is on a 2.5m wide combined cycleway/footway constructed 2 years ago at a cost of several £100,000, but cyclists are very rarely seen on it as they prefer the narrow footpath on the other side of the road!!!
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It's happened to us here too but the fact is that idiots are to blame not cyclists or drivers. Surely it's not much to ask cyclists to make themselves visible and neither should it be too much to ask drivers not to park dangerously or drive recklessly. Whilst one side or other persists in blaming everyone else nothing will change and people will continue to die and suffer needlessly. Yes drivers kill/injure far more people than cyclists ever will but that doesn't mean cyclists should feel free to act irresponsibly even if they're stupid enough to not to wear safety gear, use lights etc. Every time a cyclist, driver or pedestrian gets killed or seriously injured a family is devastated so we should all be doing as much as we reasonably can to act responsibly and reduce the risks to us all because sooner or later the family in question might be our own.