20 cyclists injured as driver does U-turn at race in Belgium

OldRidgeback wrote:

It's worth noting that Belgium has the worst road safety of any western European nation. The road death rate/head population in Belgium is around twice that of the Netherlands just over the border, and about 1.5 times that of France in the other direction.

The country has a bad record for drink driving offences and speeding compared with its near neighbours. 

Could the fact that Belgium is one of the major routes through from Europe to UK and even into France/Netherlands for goods has a major influence on RTC levels and from that KSIs?

technone wrote:

The wife caused the accident 100% and the husband should be jailed for threatening people with a bat (Who plays baseball in Belgium? All the people who buy bats there should be on a watchlist or something.). Hope they find their cells cozy.

Its funny, isn't it, that I myself discovered an interest in baseball some years ago, coincidentally shortly after getting burgled. And yet the bat tends to be kept under the edge of my bed...

brooksby wrote:

technone wrote:

The wife caused the accident 100% and the husband should be jailed for threatening people with a bat (Who plays baseball in Belgium? All the people who buy bats there should be on a watchlist or something.). Hope they find their cells cozy.

Its funny, isn't it, that I myself discovered an interest in baseball some years ago, coincidentally shortly after getting burgled. And yet the bat tends to be kept under the edge of my bed...

Nine of the ten poorest and most deprived areas of Europe are in the UK (embarrassing for one of the richest country's in the world). The remaining area that makes up the 10 is Hainault in Belgium. That probably answers the baseball bat question!

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Nine of the ten poorest and most deprived areas of Europe are in the UK (embarrassing for one of the richest country's in the world). The remaining area that makes up the 10 is Hainault in Belgium. That probably answers the baseball bat question!

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Did you know nine out of ten statisticians are talking nonsense, especially those who have never been to Albania, Romania, Hungary, Poland, southern Italy, rural Portugal and the mountains of Spain.

mike the bike wrote:

 

 

Nine of the ten poorest and most deprived areas of Europe are in the UK (embarrassing for one of the richest country's in the world). The remaining area that makes up the 10 is Hainault in Belgium. That probably answers the baseball bat question!

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Did you know nine out of ten statisticians are talking nonsense, especially those who have never been to Albania, Romania, Hungary, Poland, southern Italy, rural Portugal and the mountains of Spain.

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Of course you must be correct because those countries are poorer than the UK and by default they will have the most deprived areas. Just the sort of logic that our useless politicians rely on to dupe the voters. After all we don't have poverty in the UK do we that's because we are so determined to ensure their is an adequate distribution of wealth and opportunity.

Legin wrote:

mike the bike wrote:

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Nine of the ten poorest and most deprived areas of Europe are in the UK (embarrassing for one of the richest country's in the world). The remaining area that makes up the 10 is Hainault in Belgium. That probably answers the baseball bat question!

Did you know nine out of ten statisticians are talking nonsense, especially those who have never been to Albania, Romania, Hungary, Poland, southern Italy, rural Portugal and the mountains of Spain.

Of course you must be correct because those countries are poorer than the UK and by default they will have the most deprived areas. Just the sort of logic that our useless politicians rely on to dupe the voters. After all we don't have poverty in the UK do we that's because we are so determined to ensure their is an adequate distribution of wealth and opportunity.

Of course we have poverty in the UK, but I'm pretty sure our poverty isn't as impoverished as some places even in Europe.  We don't have large areas with no running water, no power, no internet, etc.  I'm pretty sure that there are inhabitants of large sections of rural continental Europe which would look at areas in the UK that we consider "poverty stricken" and think, "Whoa - I want to live *there*!  Luxury!!".

brooksby wrote:

Legin wrote:

mike the bike wrote:

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Nine of the ten poorest and most deprived areas of Europe are in the UK (embarrassing for one of the richest country's in the world). The remaining area that makes up the 10 is Hainault in Belgium. That probably answers the baseball bat question!

Did you know nine out of ten statisticians are talking nonsense, especially those who have never been to Albania, Romania, Hungary, Poland, southern Italy, rural Portugal and the mountains of Spain.

Of course you must be correct because those countries are poorer than the UK and by default they will have the most deprived areas. Just the sort of logic that our useless politicians rely on to dupe the voters. After all we don't have poverty in the UK do we that's because we are so determined to ensure their is an adequate distribution of wealth and opportunity.

Of course we have poverty in the UK, but I'm pretty sure our poverty isn't as impoverished as some places even in Europe.  We don't have large areas with no running water, no power, no internet, etc.  I'm pretty sure that there are inhabitants of large sections of rural continental Europe which would look at areas in the UK that we consider "poverty stricken" and think, "Whoa - I want to live *there*!  Luxury!!".

Apologies on re-reading the report it is 9 out of 10 in Northern Europe; it includes all the countries that many would consider as our "equals". Excludes the Med Countries, Norway and th eold Eastern Block. https://www.exposingtruth.com/new-research-9-10-poorest-areas-northern-e...