Ben Saunders Quotes

I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.

One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

It is never easy to play "chicken" when you face a driver alone in his car while you have passengers in the front and back seats who tend to grab for the steering wheel whenever a collision appears imminent.

We lose 30,000 lives on our highways every year. We can certainly do better.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.

Anyone who dials a phone while driving is flirting with death. And anyone who texts while driving is insane.

Some cyclists are complete prats, obviously, but so are some drivers.

For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.

When I was young, I would drive so fast. Now I see it a different way.

A lot of people has lost their lives due to indiscipline on the roads.

I'm a bit of a reckless driver.

When you look the wrong way to cross the street, you've got to be careful with it.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I'll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood.

Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce.

It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it.

The M6 is terrible and there are always accidents when there is a big highway with lots of traffic.

I feel very fragile cycling in London, whereas in Berlin there are proper cycle paths everywhere.

I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.

As SUVs are higher and heavier, they are more likely to kill the people they hit. Driving an SUV in an urban area is an antisocial act.