• nailingjello@piefed.zip
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    3 days ago

    It sounds like you are saying that if a drunk cyclist hits a pedestrian, it’s impossible for the pedestrian to get injured.

    Or if that same cyclist weaves out in to the street, a car that hits them cannot be damaged (and the driver of the car won’t be held liable even though cyclists pretty much always have the right of way vs. cars).

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        1 day ago

        Yeah and donkeys kill more people per year than sharks and more people die at their home every year than at volcano eruptions and earthquakes put together.

        If you want to quantify danger of something you need to account the number of encounters.

        And you did not answer the question.

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            3 days ago

            Based on their comment above I asked if the following assumptions were correct. They appeared to confirm them:

            It sounds like you are saying that if a drunk cyclist hits a pedestrian, it’s impossible for the pedestrian to get injured.

            Or if that same cyclist weaves out in to the street, a car that hits them cannot be damaged (and the driver of the car won’t be held liable even though cyclists pretty much always have the right of way vs. cars).

            Are you saying there are recorded facts that agree with their assumptions? Could you please provide a source?

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              No, I’m saying cyclists injure fewer pedestrians per year than sidewalks do, which is what your disagreeing comment appeared to be replying to. It’s a recorded fact that cyclists injure fewer pedestrians per year than sidewalks. For my country, that’s in the Recorded Road Casualties of Great Britain dataset.

              I replied about your assumptions in another comment.

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      3 days ago

      Not impossible, but very very rare in practice.

      And whether the driver is liable varies around the world. Most countries require drivers not to hit dumb animals, including drunk humans.