How many die later from serious injuries on our roads?
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From: Brimstone on 11 Feb 2010 07:24 "Christopher Bowlas" <chris.bowlas(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:165114c3-dd54-423a-99ef-fda6cc46e6ba(a)k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... > On Feb 10, 1:36 pm, "Brimstone" <brimst...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> "Adrian" <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:7tfnvkF4ckU15(a)mid.individual.net... >> > When he was a kid, he was seriously injured and in a coma after running >> > into the road in front of an oncoming car to "rescue" the corpse of a >> > dead bird. >> >> I didn't recall his injuries being that serious. > > Do you mean that only his head was injured? > >> > His pig-headed unwillingness to accept any possible fallibility on his >> > own part is what's led to him extrapolating that incident into "all car >> > drivers are evil murderers" >> >> Similarly the more recent event where Doug was struck by a car wanting to >> cross his path and his refusal to give way, despite it being the most >> sensible thing to do. > > Does he think his home planet revolves around a red star? According to the first law of the Dougverse, everything revolves around Doug.
From: Adrian on 11 Feb 2010 07:27 "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > What damages your credibility is that you only adopted this attitude > after his health meant he had to > stop driving cars.
From: Christopher Bowlas on 11 Feb 2010 07:34 On Feb 11, 12:24 pm, "Brimstone" <brimst...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > "Christopher Bowlas" <chris.bow...(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message > news:165114c3-dd54-423a-99ef-fda6cc46e6ba(a)k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... > > On Feb 10, 1:36 pm, "Brimstone" <brimst...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> "Adrian" <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > >>news:7tfnvkF4ckU15(a)mid.individual.net... > >> > When he was a kid, he was seriously injured and in a coma after running > >> > into the road in front of an oncoming car to "rescue" the corpse of a > >> > dead bird. > > >> I didn't recall his injuries being that serious. > > > Do you mean that only his head was injured? > > >> > His pig-headed unwillingness to accept any possible fallibility on his > >> > own part is what's led to him extrapolating that incident into "all car > >> > drivers are evil murderers" > > >> Similarly the more recent event where Doug was struck by a car wanting to > >> cross his path and his refusal to give way, despite it being the most > >> sensible thing to do. > > > Does he think his home planet revolves around a red star? > > According to the first law of the Dougverse, everything revolves around > Doug. ',' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonian
From: The Medway Handyman on 11 Feb 2010 12:56 Adrian wrote: > "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much > like they were saying: > >> What damages your credibility is that you only adopted this attitude >> after > > his health meant he had to > >> stop driving cars. Mental health presumably? -- Dave - the small piece of 14th century armour used to protect the armpit.
From: Christopher Bowlas on 12 Feb 2010 00:17
On Feb 10, 8:06 pm, "Norman Wells" <cut-me-own-thr...(a)dibblers- pies.co.am> wrote: > In 2007, there were just 646 deaths of pedestrians on the roads. We're not > told what they were doing, nor who was responsible. That total represented > 22% of all deaths on the roads that year. 49% of deaths were to car users, > whom you obviously don't count since they made their own choices. 20% were > motorcyclists, and the same presumably applies to them. A further 5% (about > 146) were pedal cyclists. Again, we're not told what they were doing nor > who was responsible for their demise. > > You will say all of the pedestrians and pedal cyclists were killed by > rampaging motorists. That means about 800 vulnerable innocents mown down by > callous drivers. I'd say that a more accurate starting point, given a fair > apportionment of blame, would be half of that number, so about 400. > > Even if it's 800, that represents just about 1 in 1000 deaths in Britain. > So, 99.9% of deaths occur through other causes. If you're a pedestrian or a > pedal cyclist, you're therefore likely to be killed on the roads once every > 80,000 years on average. If you take my figure, that rises to once every > 160,000 years. So how many years would it take for Doug to be killed twice? |