As picked up by road.cc
Editorial Patterns in Bicyclist and Pedestrian Crash Reporting
Stuff you already knew...
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Yes, indeed. The voting motorist really does not want to be reminded of their own risk-taking and potential for error.
After all, a certain KSI-rate is "inevitable" in our high-mobility society ( just so long as nothing happens to me / family / friends ).
A high-mobility society is good for our economy ! ( Even if that economic fixation is destroying our life-support system. )
After all, a certain KSI-rate is "inevitable" in our high-mobility society ( just so long as nothing happens to me / family / friends ).
A high-mobility society is good for our economy ! ( Even if that economic fixation is destroying our life-support system. )
- Wanlock Dod
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Graham wrote:... A high-mobility society is good for our economy ! ...
Yes indeed, I expect that is why per capita GDP is so much higher in the Netherlands than in Little Britain
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Noted on the BBC, that bastion of bad linguistics, that snow and ice was responsible for 125 collisions in Scotland yesterday...
There was me thinking it was motorists...
There was me thinking it was motorists...
A shortcut has to be a challenge, otherwise it would just be the way. No situation is so dire that panic cannot make it worse.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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Just hearing Jame's Burke and his Connections. Sloppy writing I reckon, and often found on our illustrious R4.
I was only half attending, but he said that when Columbus set sail he found America that nobody knew was there.
Rubbish!
Mick F. Cornwall
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he found America that nobody knew was there.
I blame American's destruction of the English language proliferating our airwaves for crap writing and inane thinking.