Not at all. No apologies needed - I was just trying to clarify, and I apologise if my posting seemed terse - I just wanted to check what you were hinting (?) at.
I don't know whether the moderator powers-that-be could/should meld these threads.
To quote you, perhaps they don't "show up" in the statistics because they don't "show up"? Perhaps there's a pile of them somewhere?
Whichever thread, and being a West Susssex non-statistic, I'm afraid that I have absolutely no faith in the statistics of West Sussex police. When knocked off (witnessed) and having to visit A&E, they didn't breathalyse the driver, and they didn't take any kind of proper statement, so I had to handle it myself.
My wife was stationary in her car at traffic lights was rear-ended, and she was breathalysed. I know the policy, so why wasn't my accident dealt with properly? Had I not needed an ambulance, I'd have told them how to do their job properly myself.
Cyclists don't count, and their statistics are totally duff.
A slight issue on lighting, is that while I've seen the odd one without lights at night, my own headlights are so powerful that it has caused me little problem - and this is the case for 99% of cars on the road these days.
If you challenge "pure" motorists as to when and where they saw one, they tend to be extremely vague on time and place, so my contention is that a lot of the statements should be taken with a pinch of salt.
My father-in-law goes apoplectic about unlit cyclists, but goes even more so when pushed to provide a time and a place. Good sport, but bad politics!
