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Re: 'Text driver faces jail over death'
« Reply #90 on: 04 February 2008, 22:18:18 »
Admit i hav'nt read every post but she should be done for texting/driving. No more though. Cyclists take the piss then moan when they get hurt. Recently a Mother who lost her daughter is now campaigning about it. The daughter cycled to the left of a truck that was in the left hand lane at a red light indicating left. I feel sorry for the girl cyclist & her grieving family but what was she doing there in the first place? Cold'nt she wait behind the truck then follow it?
   How would you feel if you were the truck driver? He just went to work & killed a young girl through no fault of his own, he has to live with that. She should'nt have been there.
     Sorry as i honestly feel for a waste of life it was her fault. 2 lanes means 2 lanes, no iffs or bits. :(
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« Reply #91 on: 04 February 2008, 22:21:12 »
ive done a bit of digging and there seems to be an increasing number of cyclist involved accidents, where the cyclists are to blame ,(not what i think what ive read)so much so its being discussed by the police chiefs association with a view to change laws and how to enforce them and punishment etc i didn't realise it is such a problem
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« Reply #92 on: 04 February 2008, 22:22:11 »
It's 22:20... I first posted this at 12:20 today... 90 replies in 10 hours sounds like a record to me  ;D

..so can I now have my posts back Mr. TB?  :'(
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Re: 'Text driver faces jail over death'
« Reply #93 on: 04 February 2008, 22:24:32 »
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It's 22:20... I first posted this at 12:20 today... 90 replies in 10 hours sounds like a record to me  ;D

..so can I now have my posts back Mr. TB?  :'(
Who said it was me?  Such accusations may cause loss of posts ;D
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« Reply #94 on: 04 February 2008, 22:24:39 »
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It's 22:20... I first posted this at 12:20 today... 90 replies in 10 hours sounds like a record to me  ;D

..so can I now have my posts back Mr. TB?  :'(


What have you been doing now??
Why do you only have 6 posts??
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« Reply #95 on: 04 February 2008, 22:28:42 »
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It's 22:20... I first posted this at 12:20 today... 90 replies in 10 hours sounds like a record to me  ;D

..so can I now have my posts back Mr. TB?  :'(
Who said it was me?  Such accusations may cause loss of posts ;D

I didn't actually say you took them away.... I only suggested that you have the power to grant them back  ;)
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« Reply #96 on: 04 February 2008, 22:29:23 »
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It's 22:20... I first posted this at 12:20 today... 90 replies in 10 hours sounds like a record to me  ;D

..so can I now have my posts back Mr. TB?  :'(


What have you been doing now??
Why do you only have 6 posts??

Oh the list of my mischief is too long... ;D
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« Reply #97 on: 04 February 2008, 22:33:21 »
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It's 22:20... I first posted this at 12:20 today... 90 replies in 10 hours sounds like a record to me  ;D

..so can I now have my posts back Mr. TB?  :'(
:-/MMMMMMM....dunno. Are you in a charitable mood Jaimie???
    do you think he's REALLY sorry??? ::) ;D ;D
       Give 'em back. This is bound to happen to me one day & i'll want the support of my fellow Migeeeezzz!!!!!
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« Reply #98 on: 04 February 2008, 22:34:13 »
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It's 22:20... I first posted this at 12:20 today... 90 replies in 10 hours sounds like a record to me  ;D

..so can I now have my posts back Mr. TB?  :'(
:-/MMMMMMM....dunno. Are you in a charitable mood Jaimie???
    do you think he's REALLY sorry??? ::) ;D ;D
       Give 'em back. This is bound to happen to me one day & i'll want the support of my fellow Migeeeezzz!!!!!


Yes yes I am really really sorry  ::)
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« Reply #99 on: 04 February 2008, 22:43:12 »
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ive done a bit of digging and there seems to be an increasing number of cyclist involved accidents, where the cyclists are to blame ,(not what i think what ive read)so much so its being discussed by the police chiefs association with a view to change laws and how to enforce them and punishment etc i didn't realise it is such a problem

i am going o sound old fashioned here and i make no apology for it....

When we were at school we were encourage to do cycling proficiency tests, these were a basic form of education and road craft for pushbikes.

HOWEVER...i believe that they also helped people when the came to driving motorbikes and cars, by riding on the road as cyclist they were more aware of the risks and were also more aware of cyclists.


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« Reply #100 on: 04 February 2008, 22:43:52 »
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It's 22:20... I first posted this at 12:20 today... 90 replies in 10 hours sounds like a record to me  ;D

..so can I now have my posts back Mr. TB?  :'(
:-/MMMMMMM....dunno. Are you in a charitable mood Jaimie???
    do you think he's REALLY sorry??? ::) ;D ;D
       Give 'em back. This is bound to happen to me one day & i'll want the support of my fellow Migeeeezzz!!!!!


Yes yes I am really really sorry  ::)

oh please give him posts back.....

we wont hear the last of it otherwise  ::)
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Re: 'Text driver faces jail over death'
« Reply #101 on: 04 February 2008, 23:49:51 »
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i am going o sound old fashioned here and i make no apology for it....

When we were at school we were encourage to do cycling proficiency tests, these were a basic form of education and road craft for pushbikes.

HOWEVER...i believe that they also helped people when the came to driving motorbikes and cars, by riding on the road as cyclist they were more aware of the risks and were also more aware of cyclists.

I did one too, but there's a whole load more cars on the roads now.  Cycle lanes should be rubbed out/painted black again & given back for car use.  :o   :y Unless they are dedicated lanes away from the actual high way, ala East Lancs/A580 for those that know it. This accident proabably wouldn't have happened if cars & cyclist weren't trying to share the same bit of road.
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« Reply #102 on: 05 February 2008, 00:08:52 »
just to keep the thread going on and on.....i posted on page one of this thread about reading in mcn that there was lobbying to make it the drivers fault if a cyclist was in collision with another vehicle and martin replied that this was wrong.i have found the article on the mcn site archive....amy aeron thomas,director of roadpeace(admittedly not strictly a cyclists group) said that they were calling for a change in the law so that in any collision involving a cyclist the motor vehicle driver is held responsible unless it can be proved that the cyclist was in the wrong (driver would be guilty until proven innocent?).... the rac commented that this "would give cyclists carte blanche to behave as recklessly as they liked" :o
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« Reply #103 on: 05 February 2008, 00:11:15 »
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... (driver would be guilty until proven innocent?).......

I thought we already were!  >:(
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« Reply #104 on: 05 February 2008, 00:14:22 »
probably because we have a bigger carbon footprint ,apparently that is VERY important at the moment ;)
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