> A cyclist who killed a pedestrian when he knocked him over on a pavement in Cornwall has been spared a jail term. But the pedalheads keep telling us that cycling on the pavement is safe? Well my frend, a single anectote does not proove very much about risk explosure as any statistian will be quik to point out. I meen, it's not like you wood stop ryeding on a boing 747 just ...

On Nov 18, 1:39 pm, "zaax" <zaax_guard-gro...@yahoo.com> wrote: A cyclist who killed a pedestrian when he knocked him over on a pavement in Cornwall has been spared a jail term. But the pedalheads keep telling us that cycling on the pavement is safe? "It will not advantage anyone to send you to prison," she said. It would certainly help to discourage others from cycling on the ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7098383.stm Pavement death cyclist sentenced A cyclist who killed a pedestrian when he knocked him over on a pavement in Cornwall has been spared a jail term. At Truro Crown Court Peter Messen, 28, was sentenced to one year in prison suspended for two years and given 300 hours community service. The judge heard Messen, who had pleaded ...

Knight Of The Road wrote: "zaax" <zaax_guard-groups@yahoo.com> wrote But she accepted Messen was a vulnerable man who had had a difficult childhood, attended a special school until he was 16 and had been diagnosed as having behavioural and medical problems. I'll have to remember this defence if ever I mow someone down while driving my articulated lorry along a pavement....

"zaax" <zaax_guard-groups@yahoo.com> wrote But she accepted Messen was a vulnerable man who had had a difficult childhood, attended a special school until he was 16 and had been diagnosed as having behavioural and medical problems. I'll have to remember this defence if ever I mow someone down while driving my articulated lorry along a pavement. -- -- ...