Less Police means more deaths

[welsh blackbird]

From Sunday's Observer

www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,1120621,00.html

It's what's been said here all along!

[forever_driving]

A newspaper article that I agree with? What's the world coming to?

[Apache]

Watch the feckers squirm. Safety Partnerships are responsible for the increase in deaths by hiding or manipulating these figures, ironically they have probably caused more pain and misery than if they had found something else to interfere with. Now can we all be grown up and start addressing ROAD SAFETY!

disclaimer: I in no way intended to racially abuse any minority, intend a threat of death, or park more than 51cm away from the kerb in this statement

>> Edited by Apache on Monday 12th January 10:13

[james_j]

I expect the "safety" freaks will be quiet for a while and hope this all blows over.

[gh0st]

I see Brunstrum had to get his little word in there.

If he had his way the whole force would probably be cybernetic speed camera enforcement drones, because as we all know, only speed kills.

[hornet]

"If we don't get people doing proper enforcement, casualties will start to rise rather than fall - something about which we are very concerned,' said Robert Gifford, director of the Parliamentary Advisory Committee on Transport Safety."

Earth to Mr Gifford - casualties HAVE risen. You can dress up reduced KSIs as much as you want, but who cares that less people are getting minor bumps when more people are being killed?

I'm getting mixed signals here - I thought PACTS were in league with the likes of BRAKE and SSI regarding camera enforcement? They issued a press release debunking "speed camera myths" and hammering on about 35% reductions didn't they? Sure there's a big thing on Safespeed about it. Now their director appears to be saying what we've been saying on here for ages - we need more police on our roads.

Have they seen sense, or are they just having a problem differentiating their arse from their elbows?

[hornet]

Wouldn't it be awful if someone were to contact BRAKE and SSI, highlighting the remarks attributed to Mr Gifford? After all, voicing the opinion that we need more human traffic police is something that only rabid "anti camera fringe groups" do, surely?

Would hate to see that quote being used to generate inter lobby group tension....

And who are RoadPeace?

[anonymous-user]

hornet said:

And who are RoadPeace?

www.roadpeace.org/

Seem to have about the same mandate as BRAKE without the rabid anti-speeding rhetoric.