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The Mail piece also includes this
*A few days later I received the following reply: ‘Thank you for your request for compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2008. We have looked carefully at the information sent to us . . . and I am sorry that I cannot make a full or reduced award because paragraph 11 of **the Scheme excludes the payment of compensation for injuries caused by a vehicle *unless the vehicle was used in a deliberate attempt to cause injury.’
That has nothing to do with cyclists per se. Why is it in the article, besides allowing the writer to feel even more victimised and hard done by?