bigbluemeanie
Navigation
Home | Links | | Bluemeanie | Scarlett | Videos
About This Site
About
A personal weblog with photographs and comments. Quiet ramblings, quite rambling...
- No legacy is so rich as honesty - William Shakespeare
Members
Most recent entries
- Shoe, shoe, shame on you!
- Boycott Israel
- Protests against the slaughter in Gaza
- A clear and mild day
- Frozen Haystack
- Last ride of 2008
- Entering a New Year
- Stop the War Protest
- Stop the War
- Ranganathan Temple
- Pilgrimage
- Haunted Warlingham
- Things you won’t see from your car - Part 3
- Road Widening in Progress
- The Woldingham Viewpoint Vandals
Recent entries with comments
- Stop the War - (3)
- Things you won’t see from your car - Part 3 - (3)
- Heat efficiency - (6)
- Parisian graffiti tag - (1)
- Where have all the bees gone? - (1)
- How not to serve beer - (2)
- Biddenden Maids - (1)
- Scandinavia - (1)
- Pachabel Rant - (1)
- Sainsburys involved in dodgy pricing? - (2)
- Pumpkin season begins chez moi - (2)
- A figure of defiance - (2)
- Cycle Lanes of Surrey: 2 metre special - (3)
- Cycle Lanes of Surrey: 15 metre special - (1)
- Dangerous Waste - (3)
Feeds
Categories
Monthly Archives
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
- February 2004
- January 2004
- December 2003
- November 2003
- October 2003
Links
- Full linklist
- Bluemeanie.org
- Scarlett's weblog
- GeoURL
- Blogflux
- LS Blogs
- Blogwise
- Wikablog
- Technorati
- Blogarama
- Oxted Frappr
- Bloggernity.com
- The Blog Directory
- The Green Providers Directory
Lately listening to
Site Statistics
- This website has been viewed 560209 times
- Page rendered in 0.4073 seconds
- 55 queries executed
Site Credits
- Powered by: ExpressionEngine
- Based on a design by:
BlogMoxie 
The original content of this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
Next entry: U (Berlin cycling)
Previous entry: Fashionista
About two weeks ago a young driver from Oxted crashed and completely wrote off her vehicle here when her tyre burst as she drove over some pieces of asbestos that had been dropped in the road. She was lucky to walk away without serious injury (according to a police officer who witnessed the accident).
It is illegal to dispose of asbestos in landfill sites, like the one at the Oxted quarry. The streets in and around Oxted are currently being littered with the debris of the trucks coming to-and-from the quarry, which is currently being filled with landfill as part of the reclaiming/landscaping exercise. Could one of these trucks also have littered the asbestos which caused the accident?
Asbestos is a dangerous substance: over 3,000 people die every year in this country from asbestos-related disease (and the number is expected to rise to 10,000 by the year 2020). It is also the greatest single cause of work-related deaths in the UK.
Here are my previous posts on the subject:
- Chalkpit Lane
- The Oxted Quarry
- Local Planning Meeting: The Chalkpit Lane Issue
- Follow them home
- Something Fishy
Filed under: Europe • England • (3) Comments • Permalink
Oops, thanks. I’ve corrected the did/die.
And a similar piece of litter caused the death of more than 100 in a Concorde.
did = died
That’s much fewer than the deaths by smoking. 40% of smokers die from smoking.
There is a misconception that the degree of asbestos exposure makes a difference. Actually it is the site on the body that is exposed that makes a difference.
Dr Neil White did some research on asbestos. He informed me that one single fiber lodged in the lungs was what causes asbestosis. Symptoms only appear after 20 years. Death is certain within 5 years of onset.
Not to downplay smoking: after only a few years the scar tissue on the alveoli is so bad that smokers should be advised not to scuba dive due to the high risk of air entrapment and cerebral air embolism.