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Cycling Accidents: a Turkey votes for Christmas - Julie Carlisle, Henmans LLP

11/10/12. I work in Oxford, a beautiful city synonymous with dreaming spires and students on sit-up-and-beg bicycles winding their way to their next classes. The reality however, as reported in the local press recently, is that deaths and injuries for cyclists have more than doubled in the past decade with 58 cyclists killed or seriously injured in Oxfordshire alone in 2011.

The reaction to this news, in Oxford at least was disappointing. The Deputy Council Leader tried to explain this terrible figure as an inevitable consequence of a rise in the numbers of cyclists, but it was some of the letters and comments posted in response that really took my breath away...

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