The "New" Highway Code.

Particularly liked the tables of speed limits and stopping distances ;-)

Coo... you're quick. I posted that some time ago. Still, nice to see you're awake.

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Disproportionately soft on pedestrians and cyclists, isn't it?

Because, despite the disproportionate responses on sections of Usenet, the majority of illegality and dangerous acts on the road is committed by vehicle drivers?

Excluding the obvious (more laws apply to vehicle drivers, a vehicle is inherently more dangerous in an accident) what evidence have you that more dangerous acts are committed by vehicle drivers than by pedestrians?

No more than than 'squashme' who used the word 'disproportionately' first.

Nice one! Seems to sum up what I end up seeing from the driving seat almost every day of the week.

Not my experience, pedal cyclists seem to have the monopoly on fuckwitted behaviour.

Thankfully this isn't being posted to the c*cling newsgroups as well or we'd have the green ink brigade all over us again.

Halmyre

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The ratio of motorists to cyclists is about 40 - 1. It inevitably follows that many more dangerous acts are committed by vehicle drivers, quite aside from the fact that their vehicles are vastly more dangerous than cycles. Do try to get a sense of proportion.

-- UK Radical Campaigns

Where from? cos you certainly don't seem to have one, either....

The clichés that could be used to respond to this are as endless as the amount of, doubtless ultimately futile, wasted time it would take to even try to get a reasoned response successfully across the gap between that sentiment and reality.

Er... quite.

Do you actually understand the meaning of the word "proportion"?

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drivers,

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Bicycles ***ARE*** vehicles. You can't be much of a radical if you think that the only proper vehicles are motor vehicles.

Jeremy Parker