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Ambrose Nankivell
Guest
Tony Raven wrote:
> While the aeroplane was tongue in cheek David, if you want to run the
> risk argument you would take the car to get a bottle of milk -
> assuming there was no convenient bus, train or plane, as going to the
> same shop on foot or bicycle is 10-15 times more dangerous than
> driving.
Assuming that the per mile statistics are equally applicable to journeys to
the shops of course.
Mind you, I'm not aware of any car drivers having been killed within a
mile's radius of where I am in the last year, but I can think of two
pedestrian killings within 200 metres: One by a car at a bus stop, one by
some youths on the pavement.
So it seems you're right.
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> While the aeroplane was tongue in cheek David, if you want to run the
> risk argument you would take the car to get a bottle of milk -
> assuming there was no convenient bus, train or plane, as going to the
> same shop on foot or bicycle is 10-15 times more dangerous than
> driving.
Assuming that the per mile statistics are equally applicable to journeys to
the shops of course.
Mind you, I'm not aware of any car drivers having been killed within a
mile's radius of where I am in the last year, but I can think of two
pedestrian killings within 200 metres: One by a car at a bus stop, one by
some youths on the pavement.
So it seems you're right.
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