Almost as dangerous - walking that is

**cheshirecat** · 17th December 2010, 08:51

"On average, 40 pedestrians are killed and 1000 pedestrians are injured on New Zealand roads every year."

from here

Then if course if we include Manners Mall . . . .

**Juzz976** · 17th December 2010, 09:26

I think your underestimating how many people actually walk compared to how many people ride motorcycles.

Also include people who can walk enough to injure or kill themselves but lack the capacity to mount a bike.

I walked to subway this morning for morning tea and I ride a motor bike, gee looks like I'm gonna die a young man....

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 17th December 2010, 09:42

They need to pay more ACC...

oh wait... hmmmm

**Juzz976** · 17th December 2010, 09:51

Shoe tax!

Anyone with a foot larger that 600cc pays more too.

**Scuba_Steve** · 17th December 2010, 09:58

Even more dangerous when drunk

“Doing the math, you find that on a per-mile basis, a drunk walker is eight times more likely to get killed than a drunk driver.

They add a caveat that drunk walkers don’t kill other people, as drunk drivers do; but even factoring for that, “walking drunk leads to five times as many deaths per mile as driving drunk.”

**jim.cox** · 17th December 2010, 10:29

So when are helmets going to be made compulsary for them too?

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 17th December 2010, 11:12

Originally Posted by jim.cox

So when are helmets going to be made compulsary for them too?

Make every one wear bubble wrap... I like bubble wrap

**Juzz976** · 17th December 2010, 11:17

Pull em all over and give them Safety Tips, literature and inspect them to make sure they're upto road legal standards and appropriately licenced

**SMOKEU** · 17th December 2010, 11:23

Won't be long before we see pedestrian licences.

**davebullet** · 17th December 2010, 13:14

If self induced, then it's a form of natural selection.

**firefighter** · 17th December 2010, 13:18

This thread is fucken awesome! hahahaha.

**rwh** · 17th December 2010, 14:16

Originally Posted by NighthawkNZ

Make every one wear bubble wrap... I like bubble wrap

But think of all the sexual abuse claims, what with all the people who can't resist popping it?

Richard

**Buyasta** · 19th December 2010, 05:43

Originally Posted by Juzz976

Shoe tax!

Anyone with a foot larger that 600cc pays more too.

Sounds like someone bought into the whole "You know what they say about guys with big feet?" thing and wants to take out their inadequacy issues on those with more generously proportioned feet.

Makes you wonder whether the folks who wrote that legislation had similar hangups.