Makes you wonder
 

About cycling on the road alone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-32795731

Shlt happens.

Statistically I'd say if was still fairly safe. Sport comes with risk.

I cycle far less partly because it's so damned dangerous here (we moved two years ago); we now have two good trail centres but a half hour drive away.
I can do a good run in half an hour or a surf in an hour from my doorstep.

A shame as I do enjoy it.

Should really NEVER do anything that could end up in injury, alone.

I remember once walking across a 3" beam, 2.5m above a cluttered floor, with a tool bag in one hand and a roll of wire in the other, and looking down and thinking, "What the HELL are you doing? No phone, alone here, only the farm family opposite, and if you fall, she might come round in two or three days if she hasn't seen, or heard you.........."

So I put the wire down, went and got my phone and walked the beam holding on one handed.

Previous to that, I'd been on the roof up a 30' ladder alone too.

Makes you think.

Yes but its all within your control ...

That could mean staying at home and cooking, walking up and down stairs, having a bath, DIY.

There is risk everywhere!

I agree.

My wifes uncle was painting the outside of his nieces house recently.
Something happened, and he fell/ladder slipped or something (we don't know yet as he's in a comma), he was found later by the tiler who had returned to complete his work approx. 4 hours after leaving to get more stuff.

The most dangerous thing I have to do on my farm is hang 30ft over empty silos on 2 widths of planks to adjust the slider openers at the top when we have a delivery of grain. I guess I could wear a harness with a rope attached but I feel relatively safe....

People "drown" in grain silos every year I think ..? :wonder:

No idea but I've heard a few cases of people falling into empty ones and the impact killing them due to the height. Not heard of people being buried alive though. I can't begin to imagine how horrible that would be. I've stood in a silo while the last tonne of grain has been augered into it to make sure that it doesn't over flow but I don't see how it could be possible to get buried/drown because you don't sink into it- not with wheat or barley anyway.

95% of people die in bed, never go to bed alone! :idea:

Nice cycle today and didn't die which was handy.


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Yeah must be a horrible way to go. Apparently it was on the increase in 2011:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...illinois-grain

I was hit by a pensioner would was blinded by the sunlight.... he didn't stop and the police did nothing.

Luckily my elbow wasn't too badly damaged.

dunx

P.S. Drunks are a random risk. Twenty years ago I did hundreds of miles a week and never had an incident ( deep in East Yorkshire.... ) except being skittled by a diesel spill in Scarborough caused by a council wagon !