Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:34:53 +0000, Tony Dragon
said in
:

can you explain why none of my family have never had a near miss with
a car on the footway, but have had many with cyclists?

Can you explain why pedestrians are far more likely to be injured by
motorists than cyclists ?

Here is a word you missed *footway*

Can you explain why pedestrians are far more likely to be injured on
the footway by motorists than cyclists ?

They may be more likely (statistically) to be *killed* by an out of control
motor-vehicle which mounts the footway (perhaps even with a dead driver at
the wheel), but are pedestrians more likely to be *injured* by a
motor-vehicle mounting the footway than by one of the much more numerous
bicycles being ridden along it?