Good Neibours

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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In the summer of 1999 whilst returning from holiday in Cornwall we were driving on theA361 between Taunton & Street when we were hit head on by an oncomming car. Our car was a right off but fortunatly we were not, sustaining mainly brusing. The offending car had apparently also just clipped the car in front of us. Into this scene of carnage stepped the people from this car. Incredibly they were friends & near neighbours from our small villiage of Freshford nr Bath, who completely unknown to us were also travelling home from their holiday. We were subsequently whisked off to Hospital for a check up & eventually arrived back at our home late that night. To our delight we found that our neighbours had unloaded all our personal & holiday gear from the wreck of our car & transported it back to our house even putting our freshly cut Cornish daffodils into a vase. David P.
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