On 17/01/2013 20:46, ARW wrote:
fred wrote:
"Bridget Driscoll achieved notoriety by becoming the first pedestrian
to be killed in a car accident in the United Kingdom. Whilst visiting
the Crystal Palace in London on 17th August 1896, she was hit by an
automobile which was giving demonstration rides at a maximum speed of
4 mph. R.D."

Whats the point of these new 20mph city speed limits ? They obviously
need to be about 3mph

Death by rail was much earlier.

William Huskisson

As, indeed, was the first car death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ward_%28scientist%29

Though still many years after WH.

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Rod