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Crashes involving bikes mostly driver’s fault

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Bod

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Aug 15, 2017, 3:05:31 AM8/15/17
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More than two thirds of all crashes between drivers and cyclists in
Central London are the fault of the motorist, research indicates.

The City of Westminster Council found that drivers were to blame for 68
per cent of collisions between cyclists and motor vehicles in the
borough in the past 12 months. It found that cyclists were at fault for
only 20 per cent. In the remaining 12 per cent of cases, no cause could
be found or both parties were to blame.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crashes-involving-bikes-mostly-drivers-fault-9s2ssx06vn9

Bod

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Aug 15, 2017, 3:15:22 AM8/15/17
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Three quarters of parents think they’d fail their driving test if they
had to take it again.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/road-safety/11190562/Britains-bad-driving-caught-on-camera.html

James Wilkinson Sword

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Aug 15, 2017, 9:03:14 AM8/15/17
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Person found at fault by law or insurance and person at fault are not the same thing.

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James Wilkinson Sword

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Aug 15, 2017, 9:03:14 AM8/15/17
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:05:29 +0100, Bod <bodr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

James Wilkinson Sword

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Aug 15, 2017, 9:03:16 AM8/15/17
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Who cares? The driving test is a load of shit. I could pass it again by simply driving like Miss Daisy.

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James Wilkinson Sword

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Aug 15, 2017, 9:03:17 AM8/15/17
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:15:19 +0100, Bod <bodr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Colonel Edmund J. Burke

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Aug 15, 2017, 9:34:48 AM8/15/17
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That's because you limeys can't drive worth a shit. Yer worse than those squinty-eyes chinks.
LOL

Colonel Edmund J. Burke

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Aug 15, 2017, 9:35:58 AM8/15/17
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James? Would you have "done" Miss Daisy in the backseat of that old car of hers?

James Wilkinson Sword

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Aug 15, 2017, 9:36:45 AM8/15/17
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At least we drive on the left. Do you write words from the right too? Like the arabs?

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James Wilkinson Sword

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Aug 15, 2017, 9:37:18 AM8/15/17
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I wouldn't have done her anywhere, she's old and wrinkly!

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Nick Finnigan

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Aug 15, 2017, 12:59:27 PM8/15/17
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On 15/08/2017 08:05, Bod wrote:
> More than two thirds of all crashes between drivers and cyclists in Central
> London are the fault of the motorist, research indicates.


> The City of Westminster Council found that drivers were to blame for 68 per
> cent of collisions between cyclists and motor vehicles in the borough in
> the past 12 months.

How did they find that?

It found that cyclists were at fault for only 20 per
> cent. In the remaining 12 per cent of cases, no cause could be found or
> both parties were to blame.
>
> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crashes-involving-bikes-mostly-drivers-fault-9s2ssx06vn9

No, thanks.

JNugent

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Aug 15, 2017, 1:57:31 PM8/15/17
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On 15/08/2017 17:59, Nick Finnigan wrote:

> On 15/08/2017 08:05, Bod wrote:

>> More than two thirds of all crashes between drivers and cyclists in
>> Central London are the fault of the motorist, research indicates.
>
>
>> The City of Westminster Council found that drivers were to blame for
>> 68 per cent of collisions between cyclists and motor vehicles in the
>> borough in the past 12 months.
>
> How did they find that?

Magic, of course.

Or by asking cyclists.

One or the other.

James Wilkinson Sword

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Aug 15, 2017, 2:12:21 PM8/15/17
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:57:28 +0100, JNugent <jenni...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 15/08/2017 17:59, Nick Finnigan wrote:
>
>> On 15/08/2017 08:05, Bod wrote:
>
>>> More than two thirds of all crashes between drivers and cyclists in
>>> Central London are the fault of the motorist, research indicates.
>>
>>
>>> The City of Westminster Council found that drivers were to blame for
>>> 68 per cent of collisions between cyclists and motor vehicles in the
>>> borough in the past 12 months.
>>
>> How did they find that?
>
> Magic, of course.
>
> Or by asking cyclists.
>
> One or the other.

Cyclist approaches roundabout and swerves to the right, shoving his arm out to indicate because bikes don't have real indicators. Car smashes into bicycle as cyclists didn't bother giving any warning, after all, sticking his arm out for too long would make him lose his balance. Driver gets blamed for not giving cyclist the right to turn right.

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MrCheerful

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Aug 15, 2017, 2:15:18 PM8/15/17
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Nothing from the last four years ?

MrCheerful

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Aug 15, 2017, 2:15:58 PM8/15/17
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I was told that only very new stuff is allowed.

Mr Pounder Esquire

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Aug 15, 2017, 2:27:56 PM8/15/17
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Bod is a bit of a dick.


Colonel Edmund J. Burke

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Aug 16, 2017, 9:01:06 AM8/16/17
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On 8/15/2017 6:36 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:34:48 +0100, Colonel Edmund J. Burke <burke...@std-girls.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/15/2017 12:05 AM, Bod wrote:
>>> More than two thirds of all crashes between drivers and cyclists in Central London are the fault of the motorist, research indicates.
>>>
>>> The City of Westminster Council found that drivers were to blame for 68 per cent of collisions between cyclists and motor vehicles in the borough in the past 12 months. It found that cyclists were at fault for only 20 per cent. In the remaining 12 per cent of cases, no cause could be found or both parties were to blame.
>>>
>>> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crashes-involving-bikes-mostly-drivers-fault-9s2ssx06vn9
>>
>>
>> That's because you limeys can't drive worth a shit. Yer worse than those squinty-eyes chinks.
>> LOL
>
> At least we drive on the left. Do you write words from the right too? Like the arabs?
>

I'm ambidextrous, so I write both ways.

Sick old pedo Andrew Andrzej Baron

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Aug 16, 2017, 10:24:51 AM8/16/17
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> I'm ambidextrous, so I write both ways.

Good fer ya!


James Wilkinson Sword

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Aug 16, 2017, 10:38:40 AM8/16/17
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I had a colleague who could do that. Right or left hand, mirror language or normal, and even both at once.

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