Prevention rather than cure?

[gh0st]

A lot of the threads that are about speeding and a lot of the articles go on to say that we must lower speeds as it makes the outcome of an accident better than it could have been.

Is this another way of saying that we are not interested in stopping accidents, we just want them to be not as bad as they could be?

If we increased driver skills and took the awful / doddery / incompetant drivers OFF the road, there would be less accidents, more road space, less congestion and more money to try to get the public transport system running.

WIll this rather simple and obvious solution ever come to pass or am i just dreaming....

Is this too harsh or a possible realistic way of improving driving standards in GB?


Drifting onto the hard shoulder or pulling out on a lane on the motorway without signalling - Ban until test retaken

Accident caused by pulling out in front of someone without looking - Ban until test is retaken



I only picked those 2 as they are the most dangerous and incompetant examples. Far more dangerous than "speeding" yet no attention is paid as they are not as "easy" to enforce

Gh0st (after a journey home from Reading where loads of people were cutting lanes, drifting onto the hard shoulder and pulling out in front of me )