Speeding program on radio 4.

[Munta]

This lunchtime, You and Yours on Radio 4 time did a phone in program on speeding

Page here www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/

Listen to the program here www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/rams/youandyours_20030916.ram

I didn't manage to catch it all but they had Mary Williams the Chief Executive of the road safety charity BRAKE and some chap (sorry couldn't remember your name) from ABD. Worth a listen.

Sorry if this has aready been posted

edited to change the URL for the program

>>> Edited by Munta on Tuesday 23 September 14:19

[supermono]

I notice the BBC website opens with "Speeding still accounts for one third of all road traffic accidents". Did somebody point out that this was untrue on the radio show?

If not, it's another target for the one third lie people...

[Busa_Rush]

The woman from BRAKE, in her first sentence, stated that neither of the first two callers were road safety professionals and that one third of all accidents were caused by speeding !

What arrogance. To have to belittle her opponents (who couldn't answer back - they'd gone haviing been telephone callers) because she didn't have a valid argument to use was alarming but typical of the "speed kills" lobby. No valid arguments so slagg off anybody who dares to suggest that speeding isn't the greatest evil known to mankind this century.



>> Edited by Busa_Rush on Tuesday 23 September 22:33

[ashes]

Condesending stuff. I feel sympathy for the lady losing a daughter, but would a camera stop some idiot doing 60 in a 30? Whoever he/she was should have got a hefty jail term.....

I hate the way the presenter makes so many assumptions "Speed is such a problem, how do we tackle it"

Police chief gave a much more balanced view - even managed to mention dangerous right-turns and road engineering ..... His days are probably numbered