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« on: November 30, 2023, 09:41:47 »
From Wiltshire Times, 30th November 1936



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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2023, 07:07:02 »
Figures up to 2022:

https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F65143a8bb1bad4000d4fd900%2Fras0601.ods&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK

Figures have improved slightly. Needless to say most of the KSI involve cars.
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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2023, 11:09:07 »
There's a memorial to a cyclist on the A3052 Exeter-Lyme Regis road. He suffered a heart attack. Back in the mid-1960s, I organised 10-mile cycling "out-and-home" time trials that started at the top of Trow Hill above Sidmouth and went past the memorial, with a U-turn after five miles. The events were organised under Road Time Trials Council rules, with the police being notified, but I'm sure that U-turns were banned decades ago!

In the late 1990s I spent a lot of time peering at microfilm copies of Wiltshire newspapers of the 1900s. There were quite a few cases of cyclists being fined for riding on the footpath or without lights - and of people being sent to  prison for stealing bicycles.
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