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Kinetic energy disease

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  1. Stickman
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    Article in The Grauniad.

    This bit jumped out:

    Ian Roberts, a professor at the nutrition and public health intervention research unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, began his career as a paediatric trauma doctor. "I saw lots of children hit by cars," he says, "and it really is awful." He describes these deaths as "kinetic energy disease" – a reference to the idea of mismatched masses in motion. When one of those masses is protected by metal casing, but the other isn't, it's clear who is more likely to be hurt.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. fimm
    Member

    Long article, but good.
    My quote is about a woman from Copenhagan who was hit while she was cycling by a bus that ran a red light: "Her experience wasn't just an accident. It was the action of a negligent driver, whose licence was revoked when the case came to court two years later"

    (Do we think that a British bus driver who ran a red light and permanantly injured someone would loose their licence? Unfortunately it isn't clear from the article if it was "only" the licence to drive a bus that was revoked, or the one for a car as well.)

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. twq
    Member

    I think the content of the article was good, but the framing story about a near-death won't inspire many people to take up cycling.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. fimm
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    I don't think the article was intended to encourage people to take up cycling, though...

    Posted 10 years ago #

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