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Old 05-08-04 | 06:58 AM
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bentbaggerlen
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Hmmm..... I think your right, We should form a movement to ban bunk beds we could call it the BBB... no thats been taken...

Take a look at the rest of the sight, like the safer then walking page.

Deaths per billion passenger kilometres
car 3
motorcycle 109
pedestrian 54
pedal cycle 45
bus/coach negligible
light goods vehicle 1
rail 0.5
air (UK registered aircraft) 0
marine (UK registered vessels) 0.4

Now if you take a look at the report they took their infomation from (yhttp://www.data-archive.ac.uk/doc/4356/mrdoc/pdf/a4356uab.pdf) you would find that many of the motorcycle, pedal cycle and pedestrian deaths are due to being hit by a car. But the way the infomation is entered is skewed, If a pedestrian is walking down the sidewalk, and a driver jumps the curb, the death would be recorded as a pedestrain death.... makes me want to know who paid for this report? The whole sight is little off.
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