A non-Speed Kills article!!
Discussion
I posted about this a few weeks ago, but the February issue of Reader's Digest carries an interesting article about the state of our roads. It's online for you all to read now.
Have a look here
The thing is, at no time is there a sniff of Speed Kills in this article. It takes a number of sad examples, and cites various road maintenance problems which could be put right to improve safety, but at no point does it jump on the Speed Kills bandwagon.
I liked it so much, I wrote to RD and sent them a virtual pat on the head. Now they want to publish my letter, which is nice - the more people who realise that speed isn't the only cause of accidents, the better.
What do you think?
Have a look here
The thing is, at no time is there a sniff of Speed Kills in this article. It takes a number of sad examples, and cites various road maintenance problems which could be put right to improve safety, but at no point does it jump on the Speed Kills bandwagon.
I liked it so much, I wrote to RD and sent them a virtual pat on the head. Now they want to publish my letter, which is nice - the more people who realise that speed isn't the only cause of accidents, the better.
What do you think?
A very well written article that should get more publicity.
With the unfortunate death of the death of the police motorcyclist it shows that all the training in the world can sometimes not help.
It seems that the councils cut corners to save money in the short term just like the government did with the trains all those years ago. Almost every road I drive on these days has pot holes or pot holes that have been repaired. An investment in the short term of roads being resurfaced would surely pay dividends in the long term.
I mean why can't we have the tarmac surface that is used in Holland on our motorways - It is supposed to cut spray very well.
The sooner the councils realise that putting up cameras don't solve every problem under the sun the better.
With the unfortunate death of the death of the police motorcyclist it shows that all the training in the world can sometimes not help.
It seems that the councils cut corners to save money in the short term just like the government did with the trains all those years ago. Almost every road I drive on these days has pot holes or pot holes that have been repaired. An investment in the short term of roads being resurfaced would surely pay dividends in the long term.
I mean why can't we have the tarmac surface that is used in Holland on our motorways - It is supposed to cut spray very well.
The sooner the councils realise that putting up cameras don't solve every problem under the sun the better.
Junctions...
If you think one third is bad for rural areas - in older cities, especially with terraced housing networks like the lovely salubrious city I live in, a hell of a lot more accidents take place at junctions - mainly because there are so damn many of them.
Good article though, if a bit heavy on blaming engineering, didn't see much mention of education in there.
(Cmon Wildcat write off to DfT about the singin Hedgehogs!)
>> Edited by Kurgis on Thursday 19th February 15:26
If you think one third is bad for rural areas - in older cities, especially with terraced housing networks like the lovely salubrious city I live in, a hell of a lot more accidents take place at junctions - mainly because there are so damn many of them.
Good article though, if a bit heavy on blaming engineering, didn't see much mention of education in there.
(Cmon Wildcat write off to DfT about the singin Hedgehogs!)
>> Edited by Kurgis on Thursday 19th February 15:26
I'd love to see public information films and adverts about behaviour at junctions. Can remember some from years ago - the Think Once, Think Twice, Think Bike stuff. I know everyone's supposed to have passed their test, but I really think some Janet and John stuff about road positioning and what to look out for would help a lot.
An interesting topic, that None of the so called safety organisations will acknowledge.As a member of the association of british drivers , the monthly journal has a fund of infomation of use to us.Have been reading for some issues, articles from a Highways Engineer, JJ Leeming who made a life study, of Road accidents in his county , more than 40 years ago.Many accidents that he investigated,had fatalities and police reports were prepared.He looked at the reports, from an Engineers view, and saw in many cases the reason was Surface-visabilty-lack of signage etc not as per the report.All applicable to-day, but its far easier to blame the speeding driver, and stick a camera up.
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