Brake Speaks Sense!

[chrisgr31]

Anyone listen to Radio 4 this evening just before 6? They were talking about the law about not driving with a mobile phone, and interviewed Mary watsit from Brake. Think we'll all agree with one comment she made which was "We need more police traffic officers".

Most of the rest was standard garbage

[8Pack]

Pity she didn't realise that the "speed camera" was used to replace them!... too late now..

[ledfoot]

Brake were on Sky news..........

With what looked like a 16 year old representative telling us they were appalled to hear that not all scameras have film in them

[tvrgit]

The last time I looked at the BRAKE web site, admirttedly over a year ago, quite a lot of what they said made sense. They were saying that speed is one factor but we need more police to pick up on the rest.

Unfortunately their step too far on the "speed kills" argument has kind of overshadowed the rest of it.

[Peter Ward]

Mary also said that even a deep conversation with a passenger was distracting, and that driving is the most dangerous thing that most people do daily and it deserves total concentration.

You have to agree with this. Concentration is vital to driving. Sadly, speed cameras dilute that concentration, forcing drivers to concentrate on something that is less important than many other things, ie. absolute (rather than relative/for-the-conditions) speed. This is the biggest hole in Mary's argument, but what can you do about it?

[james_j]

Beware of fools who add a sprinkling of sense into their argument. It's likely just a veneer, a way of opening the door to what they really want to do...

[Peter Ward]

james_j said:

Beware of fools who add a sprinkling of sense into their argument. It's likely just a veneer, a way of opening the door to what they really want to do...

You may be right, but an ad hominem response may not be the appropriate one if we want to hold a reasoned argument. It doesn't stop the politicians or the pressure groups, of course....