From what little I know of the case here, there was no contributory negligence on the part of the cyclist who was killed. It does seem that the prosecuting attorney made a very poor choice in her choice of prosecution. Under U. Erm, no. The verb decimate originally alluded to the Roman punishment of executing one man in ten of a mutinous legion. Some traditionalists argue that this and other later senses are incorrect, but it is clear that these extended senses are now part of standard English.
It is sometimes also argued that decimate should refer to people and not to things or animals such as weeds or insects. It is generally agreed that decimate should not be used to mean 'defeat utterly. The rate of fatalities for bicyclists 60 and older is five times greater than the average. Farmers have the greatest number of bicycle incidents. The peak hour for bicycle accidents is usually to a. Monday is the peak day for bicycle accidents.
It was also found that more bicycle accidents happened in July, which is Beijing's tourism season. Generally speaking, roads and streets with higher speed limits, such as arterials and rural highways, have higher rates of bicycle accident fatalities. Bicycle accidents can be attributed to many causes, including road and environmental conditions, traffic safety measures, operations of motorized vehicles, and bicyclists' habits and skills.
The most pressing factor contributing to bicycle accidents is the inadequate and insufficient facilities provided for bicyclists. To reduce the annual toll of bicyclist injuries and fatalities, a number of countermeasures, such as improvement of road and environmental conditions, education in traffic laws, training in cycling, and use of helmet, are recommended. Hopkins U. Note that the State's Attorney in defending her decision to not press for a more serious charge said, " You mean the one that could be read as saying that bicyclists don't have the right to ride on the roads?
Dear Nash, A fairly predictable descent from arrogant ignorance to silly evasions and self-contradictions and finally to the bottom of a childish barrel. Amusingly, much of the audience won't even know what your "SO" meant. Come back when you learn how to work a four-function calculator. The illiteracy and mis-spelling are acceptable, but you really can't expect to post numeric nonsense on a technical group without having your errors pointed out.
Dear Nash, Er, no. No number in your citation addresses your "'s of head injuries everyday in any Chinese city" claim. Those are all percentages of some unknown number of accidents. But it's good to see that you've changed your mind about citations and started looking at reality to see if it corresponds to what you claim.
It isn't so much whether you're right or wrong about a particular matter--it's getting into the habit of looking into things.
I'd be pleased if you find evidence that I'm mistaken in thinking that you're off by an order of magnitude or so and that hundreds of bicyclists suffer head injuries every day in any Chinese city. But a quick google doesn't suggest that's the case: "We are fortunate to have an in-depth report for China where bicycle related deaths kill 22 per 1,, per year [18].
Of course, those are 22 "bicycle-related" deaths and thus include a fair number of pedestrians struck and killed by bicycles. This particular stretch of road does have a full-width shoulder. The area is dead flat with excellent visibility.
Which makes the driver's antics and crime all the more questionable. Distracted driver laws are inadequate. Very interesting - and infuriating - point. I hadn't thought of that. I agree. Since this is a tech group: I'd love to see a portable device that would deactivate or jam every cell phone within, say, feet of my bike. Maybe replace the caller's voice with "Watch out for the bike! Watch out for the bike! I actually learned something in this, er, discussion. Who knew that the disparaging term for people who ask for proof of a windy assertion is "citers"?
Not surprising. It's directly related to the popularity of vehicle type. But "accident" generally does not mean "injury," let alone "fatality. Yes, the elderly are more frail. But that does nothing to quantify the rate for either group. Ever notice how these "litany of horrors" abstracts always descend into the absurdly irrelevant? Brilliant, I tell you! Who could have guessed? Earthshaking science! Nobel Prize, here we come!
Bell Sports executives are probably drooling on their wing tips. And just think, no messy Safe Kids pass-throughs for their "political action" funds.
Just a nice, clean donation to a Party official. Watch for it! But, back to the original point: Where, exactly, did it say that "any [I believe you meant "every"] Chinese city has hundreds of cyclist head injuries every day of the year"?
The trick with citations is not merely to find one. It's to find one that's actually relevant to the point you were trying to make. Do you get the jist of what I was saying No.
Do you believe everything read NO So why are you taking me to task. Get over it already. Would you like to bike in a Chinese city Monday morning rush hour. A little too dangerous for my taste. That is alll I am saying about the dave's reck. Would you? Because that is what you are telling me. Have you answered even one of my questions No. Get a brain. How did that happen? We are waiting patiently for. I guess you're in for a long wait. You wrote the same rhetoric before.
I was writing to Bicycles. I do not want to be in those groups it just happened. But now I will cut them out.
Plus I am in the highest brain sex category by a British Study that you can be. I am meticulous about spelling and grammar and am smarter than most male brains and most female brains combined. I work 4X better than you Carl Fogel Too bad, you are plonked. I don't. Many activities eating, smoking, arguing with a passenger, gawking at attractive pedestrians, etc.
Downloading ringtones, the activity that supposedly kicked off this thread, is an entirely different matter, of course.
If the driver was doing that and caused a fatal accident, she should certainly have been held accountable. But that's not a reason to jump on the extremist anti-cell-phone bandwagon.
Many people use cell phones while driving, and most of those do it safely. Should a person with only one arm be prohibited from driving?
I'm aware of no State that takes that position. Most people would agree that a one-armed person can safely drive a car with automatic transmission. Is a driver with a cell phone in one hand any more impaired?
Laws against using a cell phone while driving are, in any case, largely unenforceable. Absent erratic driving an offense that stands on its own , cell phone use isn't usually noticeable enough to attract a police officer's attention. They would probably just start looking at their phone trying to determine what's wrong with it.
Dear Nash, Judging by your increasingly bizarre posts elsewhere, I suppose that your "brain sex study" was on some television show ten years ago.
Possibly "The Simpsons"? Good grief. Unfortunately your writing makes it appear that you are unable to think critically as well. Still, on the other hand, water is water. But Gloria Wilhelm, the mother of the victim, was not reticent.
She calmly read to Klaus a statement in which she chided the system that allowed Stark to continue driving even though her "irresponsible behavior continued to worsen. And she took a diplomatic jab at Rietz for her decision not to prosecute Stark for more than a petty offense. The driver took this path to and from work and had to see others out there. Disregarding the obvious is a total lack of responsibility.
She needs more than just to 'live with this the rest of her life. We can't do this with Matt. Another person told me they saw the accident scene and it was something no mother should have to witness all for a cell phone ring tone.
All for a self-indulged driver who has her priorities ridiculously out of order. After the hearing, Stark went upstairs at the courthouse to make an appointment with the probation office. Her mother told The News-Gazette that Stark didn't want to make any public comments because "she's afraid her words will get twisted. Stark sent a letter to The News-Gazette that was published in September in which she apologized to the Wilhelm family for what happened and said she took full responsibility for her actions.
I know that no matter what I say or do I can never take back what has happened or undo the hurt and grief I have caused. However, I still wanted to say that I am very sorry," she wrote. Mary Schenk is a reporter covering police, courts and breaking news at The News-Gazette.
Her email is mschenk news-gazette. An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. We drive aimlessly from red light to red light for pleasure in our gigantic gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs. It is a privilege that our relatively low gas prices allow.
It is no longer such when we endanger others doing it. Kids hang out car windows, drag race, and attempt to add every distraction to a car possible. Granted, I did it as a kid and I consider myself lucky - not for me but that I didn't kill someone else. Overall Americans tend to have this arrogant attitude of entitlement to "creature comforts" that is starting to not only irritate the rest of the world but cause real harm to those around us.
Add to this the asocial nature of humans brought on by a faster paced lifestyle and even the anonymity of hiding behind a keyboard all day, and we don't even care who we hurt - as long as it doesn't interrupt our schedule. Yet we continue to blame and regulate helmets, guns, acetone, ephedrine, and other inanimate objects as the real causes of these unfortunate "I'm only human" incidents.
Our "don't judge" attitudes take the focus off how we can prevent so many accidents. Now seat belt and helmet laws abound here in the US but they don't prevent anything.
Ask yourself which one's get more press? We have to start thinking about why we do what we do! I should just rename this blog, "The Eccentric Ranter" but I still want to share my hobbies.
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This, one of my many blogs, is a place where I can upload info of all sorts without stepping "off topic. About Me dmar To the left is a pic of me and Linda - my very tolerant and supportive girlfriend I'm just an average person with more than an average number of hobbies - "Jack of all trades, master of none!
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