The express are continuing their pointless demonization
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/863550/cyclist-killed-bicycle-accident-two-pedestrians-every-week
The express again
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sirmy wrote:The express are continuing their pointless demonization
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/863550/cyclist-killed-bicycle-accident-two-pedestrians-every-week
I like this bit
meaning roughly two people every week are being killed or badly hurt in crashes with bikes.
If the figures they give in the previous line are anything to go by, it's fewer than 1 every 15 weeks killed, but by combining killed with 'seriously injured' they make it sound deliciously terrible. The Express reader will process this as two killed every week by cyclists (and it's their fault).
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The Express are flogging a dead horse. Everyone's already moved on to other "news", such is our atten
Ooh look - squirrel!
Ooh look - squirrel!
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Remember, over a hundred pedestrians killed or seriously injured by motorists each week (5588 in 2016). The express is complaining about knives being taken to a gunfight. They're wilfully ignoring the bigger danger.
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And 9 people taken to hospital in just one car accident with a total of 11 injured. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/07/car-hits-pedestrians-outside-natural-history-museum
"It takes a genius to spot the obvious" - my old physics master.
I don't peddle bikes.
I don't peddle bikes.
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MikeF wrote:And 9 people taken to hospital in just one car accident with a total of 11 injured. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/07/car-hits-pedestrians-outside-natural-history-museum
Luckily for the editor of the Express, that falls into another area of interest. Terrorism.
Of course, terrorists on bikes would be the dream combination.