Safespeed mentioned in the EDP
Discussion
There's always an argument in the letters section of the Eastern Daily Press about scameras, today's has a letter in response to a letter moaning about a columnist who said scameras are there to raise money -
Criticism of columnist was based on inaccuracies
D Denman in her attack on columnist Tim Lenton (Letters, April 21), displays her usual mixture of accuracy, inaccuracy and mistaken beliefs.
She should properly examine evidence and articles referred to her by me, as she still indicates no comprehension of vital matters concerning road safety, before again venturing to misinterpret what Mr Lenton is quite plainly saying to those willing to heed other than negative, uneducative propaganda.
As an official consultee to the Driving Standards Agency, a former instructor to advanced level and a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists and the Association of British Drivers, I have nothing but admiration for Mr Lenton's efforts to raise public awareness to what is seriously wrong with many speed limits.
Miss Denman mentions alleged reductions in road collisions as resulting from "the food sense of the majority of British drivers and to our enforcement of sensible speed limits". Really? What she means is speed limits to a great extent is happening due to pressure from 'road safety' organisations, which are for the most part quite indifferent to the ideal of raising driving and riding standards.
Searchers for the truth will benefit from a study of Safe Speed's researches into the effects of badly-sited speed cameras (www.safespeed.org.uk). Safe Speed excels at correcting official misinterpretation of its own meticulously correct statistics.
Miss Denman castigates Mr Lenton yet fails to mention refreshing new thinking in leading circles of road safety, epitomised by speeches at the Institute of Advanced Motorists from the IAM's new chairman John Maxwell of the AA, and the head of traffic policing for the Association of Chief Police Officers, Richard Brunstrom. Both dealt in detail with the need for speed limits to become "sensible" to all road users - Mr Brunstrom used the word "barmy" to describe all too many speed limits - and both called for reintroduction of adequate numbers of police Class One officers on patrol on our roads. Nowhere are silly speed limits worse than in Suffolk, which knowingly or not is unwisely lagging behind redeveloping opinions on superior road safety. I mean 70 years' proven road safety, based on far better driver education.
Criticism of columnist was based on inaccuracies
D Denman in her attack on columnist Tim Lenton (Letters, April 21), displays her usual mixture of accuracy, inaccuracy and mistaken beliefs.
She should properly examine evidence and articles referred to her by me, as she still indicates no comprehension of vital matters concerning road safety, before again venturing to misinterpret what Mr Lenton is quite plainly saying to those willing to heed other than negative, uneducative propaganda.
As an official consultee to the Driving Standards Agency, a former instructor to advanced level and a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists and the Association of British Drivers, I have nothing but admiration for Mr Lenton's efforts to raise public awareness to what is seriously wrong with many speed limits.
Miss Denman mentions alleged reductions in road collisions as resulting from "the food sense of the majority of British drivers and to our enforcement of sensible speed limits". Really? What she means is speed limits to a great extent is happening due to pressure from 'road safety' organisations, which are for the most part quite indifferent to the ideal of raising driving and riding standards.
Searchers for the truth will benefit from a study of Safe Speed's researches into the effects of badly-sited speed cameras (www.safespeed.org.uk). Safe Speed excels at correcting official misinterpretation of its own meticulously correct statistics.
Miss Denman castigates Mr Lenton yet fails to mention refreshing new thinking in leading circles of road safety, epitomised by speeches at the Institute of Advanced Motorists from the IAM's new chairman John Maxwell of the AA, and the head of traffic policing for the Association of Chief Police Officers, Richard Brunstrom. Both dealt in detail with the need for speed limits to become "sensible" to all road users - Mr Brunstrom used the word "barmy" to describe all too many speed limits - and both called for reintroduction of adequate numbers of police Class One officers on patrol on our roads. Nowhere are silly speed limits worse than in Suffolk, which knowingly or not is unwisely lagging behind redeveloping opinions on superior road safety. I mean 70 years' proven road safety, based on far better driver education.
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