BBC "Life in the fast lane" report

[Mr Whippy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6913402.stm

Anyone notice the 'Speeding is implicated in 82% of all road accidents' note under the image near the bottom of the page. It isn't in the main body of text, and from what I know is wrong?

Wasn't it 33% have excessive speed as a contributory factor, with 8% having excessive speed OVER the limit as a contributory factor.

So where does 82% come from?

Dave

[Yoda954]

Possibly a typo as it says in the text that 28% is attributable to speed.....

[havoc]

Cunning typo eh?!?

Another biased report from the BBC...

[Don]

havoc said:

Cunning typo eh?!?

Another biased report from the BBC...

You can't believe anything the BBC says, anyway. Turns out playing fast and loose with the facts is endemic in the organisation. Read the Telegraph. At least when your blood boils you'll believe theirs is too...