On 22/03/2014 10:02, Bertie Wooster wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 09:21:33 +0000, Dave- Cyclists VORC
wrote:

On 21/03/2014 23:41, Bertie Wooster wrote:
Earlier today I left Chinbook Meadows with Meg.

Is that what you have called your daughter?

No.

Meg sat nicely on the pavement infront of the zebra crossing.

Isn't that child abuse?

No.

Cars in both directions stopped for us, and I called Meg to heel and
started to cross the road.

Cyclists wouldn't have stopped at all.

CRASH

A young lad in a car with a loud beatbox, smashed into the car infront
of him. That car then smashed into the shiny new car in front of her.
And that car was shunted onto the crossing narrowly missing Meg.

Thankfully they will all be insured. Unlike cyclists.

Possible - but by no means a guarantee.

1.2 million of the 34 million drivers are uninsured - approx 3.5%,
compared to the vast majority of uninsured cyclists. (Est/Min figures).

The MIB takes care of claims from uninsured motorists. Who takes care
of the claims from uninsured cyclists?

Since 2005, when police were given powers to stop vehicles identified as
being driven without insurance, an average of 500 have been seized
nationwide each day. Of those, an estimated 30% are crushed.

How many cycles have been crushed?

I continued over the crossing and went on my way, betting that the
three car drivers wished they had gone by bike.

They have far more sense than that.

Oh - so they crash instead!


Motorists account for 1 single fatality per 208,311,415 miles driven. A
simply incredible safety record.

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Dave-Cyclists VORK
Motorists account for 1 single fatality per 208,311,415 miles driven. A
simply incredible safety record.