"Safer Roads for Everyone"

[Streetcop]

This is well worth a browse at your leisure..

www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_rdsafety/documents/page/dft_rdsafety_504644.hcsp

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[corozin]

Interesting, but I read it 4 years ago when it was published

[Einion Yrth]

Chapter 6 is total bollox

[turbobloke]

Einion Yrth said:

Chapter 6 is total bollox

Sure is. Take this:

"The speed review has confirmed a strong link between vehicle speeds and the risk and severity of collisions."

Who needs to be told that hitting a tree at 20mph is better than going to the scene of the same accident at 50mph. Better still is to avoid the tree, or the kid, or whatever, by anticipating hazards and driving at a speed that's safe for the conditions. Speed limits set these days using political correctness, not established safety criteria like 85 %ile speed.

What they're doing is repeating the same old lie about one third of accidents caused by speeding, which chief constable Paul Garvin has already shown to be a big lie, he says it's 3% or 4%. This top bloke also says that speed cameras are purely about revenue raising.

This speed review probably involved ministers talking with each other, Brake, Slower Speeds Initiative, T2000, and ignoring thousands of consultation submissions from informed bodies and the public that said 'we don't believe you about speed and cameras, give us more traffic BiB'

We can, sadly, look forward to more years of unnecessary rises in deaths on the roads just like last year. It's a disgrace.