"Driver mounted the footpath and drove through a crowd of pedestrians"

Luckily there were no cyclists in the way this time. but it just shows
how dangerous even pavements can be. Those who cycle on pavements for
their own safety please take note.

"Pedestrian struck by car fleeing police in Londonderry

A woman has been taken to hospial after being struck by a car which
drove into a crowd outside a Londonderry bar.

The woman was flung into the air as the driver of the car fled from
police.

A police spokesperson said officers had stopped a silver Volkswagon in
the Water Street area at about 0215 BST on Saturday.

The vehicle accelerated away before police could question the
occupants.

The car's escape route was blocked by other traffic and as officers
again approached the vehicle the driver mounted the footpath and drove
through a crowd of pedestrians.

The police later found the car on fire in the Lislane area at about
0330 BST.

The woman was taken to hospital for examination and released a short
time later with injuries which are described as superficial."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11373049

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On Sep 21, 6:47*am, Doug wrote:
Luckily there were no cyclists in the way this time.

So OT then,

but it just shows
how dangerous even pavements can be.

Don't cycle on pavements.

Those who cycle on pavements for
their own safety please take note.

Good idea, keep to the roads


"Pedestrian struck by car fleeing police in Londonderry


So not a normal driver then.


A woman has been taken to hospial after being struck by a car which
drove into a crowd outside a Londonderry bar.

The woman was flung into the air as the driver of the car fled from
police.

A police spokesperson said officers had stopped a silver Volkswagon in
the Water Street area at about 0215 BST on Saturday.

The vehicle accelerated away before police could question the
occupants.

The car's escape route was blocked by other traffic and as officers
again approached the vehicle the driver mounted the footpath and drove
through a crowd of pedestrians.

The police later found the car on fire in the Lislane area at about
0330 BST.

The woman was taken to hospital for examination and released a short
time later with injuries which are described as superficial."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11373049


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On 21 Sep, 06:53, Marie wrote:
On Sep 21, 6:47*am, Doug wrote:

Luckily there were no cyclists in the way this time.

So OT then,

No because drivers pose a serious threat to all cyclists. Why are you
trying to suppress the fact?

*but it just shows
how dangerous even pavements can be.

Don't cycle on pavements.

Those who cycle on pavements for
their own safety please take note.

Good idea, keep to the roads

And make roads much safer for cyclists instead.


"Pedestrian struck by car fleeing police in Londonderry

So not a normal driver then.

They all seem 'abnormal' to me because they drive too fast and too
dangerously, as well as congesting and polluting with little regard
for human welfare or the environment.


A woman has been taken to hospial after being struck by a car which
drove into a crowd outside a Londonderry bar.

The woman was flung into the air as the driver of the car fled from
police.

A police spokesperson said officers had stopped a silver Volkswagon in
the Water Street area at about 0215 BST on Saturday.

The vehicle accelerated away before police could question the
occupants.

The car's escape route was blocked by other traffic and as officers
again approached the vehicle the driver mounted the footpath and drove
through a crowd of pedestrians.

The police later found the car on fire in the Lislane area at about
0330 BST.

The woman was taken to hospital for examination and released a short
time later with injuries which are described as superficial."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11373049

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On Sep 21, 7:27*am, Doug wrote:
On 21 Sep, 06:53, Marie wrote: On Sep 21, 6:47*am, Doug wrote:

Luckily there were no cyclists in the way this time.

So OT then,

No because drivers pose a serious threat to all cyclists. Why are you
trying to suppress the fact?

I'm not, but your post was OT


*but it just shows
how dangerous even pavements can be.

Don't cycle on pavements.

Those who cycle on pavements for
their own safety please take note.

Good idea, keep to the roads

And make roads much safer for cyclists instead.


So if cyclists don't cycle on pavements, the roads will be safer?

"Pedestrian struck by car fleeing police in Londonderry

So not a normal driver then.

They all seem 'abnormal' to me because they drive too fast and too
dangerously, as well as congesting and polluting with little regard
for human welfare or the environment.




So only you see them as normal drivers.

A woman has been taken to hospial after being struck by a car which
drove into a crowd outside a Londonderry bar.

The woman was flung into the air as the driver of the car fled from
police.

A police spokesperson said officers had stopped a silver Volkswagon in
the Water Street area at about 0215 BST on Saturday.

The vehicle accelerated away before police could question the
occupants.

The car's escape route was blocked by other traffic and as officers
again approached the vehicle the driver mounted the footpath and drove
through a crowd of pedestrians.

The police later found the car on fire in the Lislane area at about
0330 BST.

The woman was taken to hospital for examination and released a short
time later with injuries which are described as superficial."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11373049

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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:53:31 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be Marie
wrote this:-

So not a normal driver then.

It's mildly amusing. Any behaviour "antisocial" by any cyclist is
claimed to be representative of all cyclists, while any "antisocial"
behaviour by a motorist is dismissed as being not representative.

"Secondly, the underlying unpredictability of cyclists’ behaviour
was seen by drivers as stemming from the attitudes and limited
competence of the cyclists themselves, rather than from the
difficulty of the situations that cyclists are often forced to face
on the road (i.e. drivers made a dispositional rather than a
situational attribution). Despite their own evident difficulties in
knowing how to respond, drivers never attributed these difficulties
to their own attitudes or competencies, nor did they do so in
relation to other drivers (i.e. they made a situational attribution
about their own and other drivers’ behaviour). This pattern of
assignment of responsibility is characteristic of how people
perceive the behaviour of those they consider to be part of the same
social group as themselves, versus those seen as part of a different
social group (see Pettigrew, 1979). In other words, drivers saw
cyclists as an ‘out group’, and blamed them accordingly for what was
seen as negative behaviour, whilst exonerating members of the ‘in
group’, namely themselves and other drivers."

That and much more is from TRL549.



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Doug wrote:
Luckily there were no cyclists in the way this time.
The woman was taken to hospital for examination and released a short
time later with injuries which are described as superficial."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11373049

Another OT post, by your own admission.
so a car ploughed through pedestrians and yet only one woman received
superficial injury? I would call that a triumph for modern car design, ride
your pushbike through a crowd and see how many people would be hurt by all
the sticky out bits.

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:47:41 -0700, Doug wrote:

Luckily there were no cyclists in the way this time. but it just shows


God, you are *so* ****ing boring. OT as well.

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On 21/09/2010 06:47, Doug wrote:
Luckily there were no cyclists in the way this time. but it just shows
how dangerous even pavements can be. Those who cycle on pavements for
their own safety please take note.

"Pedestrian struck by car fleeing police in Londonderry

A woman has been taken to hospial after being struck by a car which
drove into a crowd outside a Londonderry bar.

The woman was flung into the air as the driver of the car fled from
police.

A police spokesperson said officers had stopped a silver Volkswagon in
the Water Street area at about 0215 BST on Saturday.

The vehicle accelerated away before police could question the
occupants.

The car's escape route was blocked by other traffic and as officers
again approached the vehicle the driver mounted the footpath and drove
through a crowd of pedestrians.

The police later found the car on fire in the Lislane area at about
0330 BST.

The woman was taken to hospital for examination and released a short
time later with injuries which are described as superficial."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11373049

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If there were no cyclists involved then why post it to a cycling NG?
Should you not be posting it tu UK driving or uk legal?
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On 21/09/2010 11:38, Seymour Bush wrote:
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:47:41 -0700, Doug wrote:

Luckily there were no cyclists in the way this time. but it just shows


God, you are *so* ****ing boring. OT as well.

Look... Doug is quite right to be concerned.

It's high time that veering from the carriageway onto the footway and
ploughing through a crowd of pedestrians was outlawed and made an offence.