XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Robert Bannister   
    wrote:   
   > On 15/01/2014 3:54 am, Your Name wrote:   
   > > In article , Greg Goss   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >> "J. Clarke"  wrote:   
   > >>> In article , robban@clubtelco.com   
   > >>> says...   
   > >>   
   > >>>> In fact, towards the end of the 19th century the traffic situation with   
   > >>>> horse-drawn vehicles was as bad if not worse than today. There are a few   
   > >>>> photographs and drawings around of grid lock in London and elsewhere.   
   > >>>> Road accidents were also very common. No speedometers or speed limits   
   > >>>> back then.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> And Christopher Reeve would have told you that horses are not   
   > >>> particularly safe.   
   > >>   
   > >> As could Pierre Curie's widow.   
   > >   
   > > Horse travel is just as safe as any other form of transport - people   
   > > have died using any of them.   
   >   
   > Very few people die from walking accidents, but I suppose that isn't   
   > transport. Come to think of it, it takes a lot of pedestrians to create   
   > the equivalent of a traffic jam, but I suppose a crush is just as   
   > dangerous as a crash.   
      
   Lots of people have die in walking accidents every year, especially   
   those not looking where they're going.   
      
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