DfT caught out again
Discussion
The following PR was issued by Safe Speed at 6am today:
UK ROAD SAFETY PERFORMANCE DISASTER
News: For Immediate Release
Despite DfT claims to the contrary, the UK roads are showing the
poorest improvement of any European country, Safe Speed reveals.
Yesterday, the new DfT Report: "Tomorrow's roads - safer for
everyone: The first three year review" claimed: "But we are
particularly concerned that the number of fatalities on our roads
each year has not continued to fall since 1998. It is understood
that this is a problem across Europe."
But using the DfT own preferred performance indicator, UK roads
fatalities have been the poorest performing of all in Europe
(excluding those countries for which data is unavailable) in
recent years.
Road deaths. 2002 as percentage of 1994-98 average
UK 96.1%
Sweden 96.0%
Finland 95.9%
Spain 94.1%
Luxembourg 92.5%
Denmark 88.5%
France 87.4%
Austria 84.7%
Ireland 84.5%
Netherlands 81.7%
Germany 77.1%
Portugal 64.7%
Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety
campaign said: "Once again we have caught the DfT
attempting to delude the public about their failed road
safety policies. Safe Speed has been warning for years
that modern road safety policy, based on "speed kills" and
speed cameras, is doing far more harm than good.
Paul continues: "Speed camera operations must cease
immediately because speed cameras are killing us. They
are, in fact, 'weapons of mass distraction'. They are
distracting local authorities from implementing proper
engineering improvements, they are distracting the Police
from their job of policing all road traffic laws, and worst of
all they are distracting drivers from proper observation of
the road ahead.
Paul continues: "Experienced drivers know instinctively that
speed cameras are bad for road safety. Thousands of
hours of analysis carried out by Safe Speed proves that
drivers are right and that the DfT is dangerously wrong.
These latest figures for comparative European performance
just add yet more proof."
Notes for Editors
=================
The DfT Report quoted is available from the DfT at:
www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_rdsafety/documents/pdf/dft_rdsafety_pdf_028165.pdf
Our figures, with simple calculations, and verifiable web
based data sources are contained in the following Excel 97 spreadsheet:
www.safespeed.org.uk/pr113.xls and also zipped:
www.safespeed.org.uk/pr113.zip
==========================================
Looks like this is going to put the cat among the pigeons AGAIN over the next 24 to 48 hours.
Best Regards,
Paul Smith
Safe Speed
www.safespeed.org.uk
UK ROAD SAFETY PERFORMANCE DISASTER
News: For Immediate Release
Despite DfT claims to the contrary, the UK roads are showing the
poorest improvement of any European country, Safe Speed reveals.
Yesterday, the new DfT Report: "Tomorrow's roads - safer for
everyone: The first three year review" claimed: "But we are
particularly concerned that the number of fatalities on our roads
each year has not continued to fall since 1998. It is understood
that this is a problem across Europe."
But using the DfT own preferred performance indicator, UK roads
fatalities have been the poorest performing of all in Europe
(excluding those countries for which data is unavailable) in
recent years.
Road deaths. 2002 as percentage of 1994-98 average
UK 96.1%
Sweden 96.0%
Finland 95.9%
Spain 94.1%
Luxembourg 92.5%
Denmark 88.5%
France 87.4%
Austria 84.7%
Ireland 84.5%
Netherlands 81.7%
Germany 77.1%
Portugal 64.7%
Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety
campaign said: "Once again we have caught the DfT
attempting to delude the public about their failed road
safety policies. Safe Speed has been warning for years
that modern road safety policy, based on "speed kills" and
speed cameras, is doing far more harm than good.
Paul continues: "Speed camera operations must cease
immediately because speed cameras are killing us. They
are, in fact, 'weapons of mass distraction'. They are
distracting local authorities from implementing proper
engineering improvements, they are distracting the Police
from their job of policing all road traffic laws, and worst of
all they are distracting drivers from proper observation of
the road ahead.
Paul continues: "Experienced drivers know instinctively that
speed cameras are bad for road safety. Thousands of
hours of analysis carried out by Safe Speed proves that
drivers are right and that the DfT is dangerously wrong.
These latest figures for comparative European performance
just add yet more proof."
Notes for Editors
=================
The DfT Report quoted is available from the DfT at:
www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_rdsafety/documents/pdf/dft_rdsafety_pdf_028165.pdf
Our figures, with simple calculations, and verifiable web
based data sources are contained in the following Excel 97 spreadsheet:
www.safespeed.org.uk/pr113.xls and also zipped:
www.safespeed.org.uk/pr113.zip
==========================================
Looks like this is going to put the cat among the pigeons AGAIN over the next 24 to 48 hours.
Best Regards,
Paul Smith
Safe Speed
www.safespeed.org.uk
D-Angle said:
The following PR was issued by Safe Speed at 6am today:
What time?!
Watch out scameraships, the man never sleeps...
Ahh, you've discovered my secret weapon. I sleep about 3.5 hours a night on average. That's 31.5 hours a week head start on the average 8 hours a night type. I've been working on this for years!
Best Regards,
Paul Smith
Safe Speed
www.safespeed.org.uk
safespeed said:
Ahh, you've discovered my secret weapon. I sleep about 3.5 hours a night on average. That's 31.5 hours a week head start on the average 8 hours a night type. I've been working on this for years!
Best Regards,
Paul Smith
Safe Speed
www.safespeed.org.uk
3.5 hours a night??!!
Man, you must be building up a sleep debt as big as the speed camera fine total for last year!
Keep it up, Paul.
Tomorrow's breaking news....Transport 2000 and BRAKE in crisis summit meeting, no time for cake and tea in the desperate fight for survival..........and, in North Wales, a pressure build-up is causing concern for the structural integrity of the skull of Chief Constable, Richard Brunstrom. When quizzed on a clifftop ramble, Mr Brunstrom fell in, but caught a speeding seagull before he hit the water........
Get some rest, Paul.
Tomorrow's breaking news....Transport 2000 and BRAKE in crisis summit meeting, no time for cake and tea in the desperate fight for survival..........and, in North Wales, a pressure build-up is causing concern for the structural integrity of the skull of Chief Constable, Richard Brunstrom. When quizzed on a clifftop ramble, Mr Brunstrom fell in, but caught a speeding seagull before he hit the water........
Get some rest, Paul.
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