UK Road Death Toll - 3221

There are tons of speed scameras in Leicestershire and:
Leicestershire deaths up from 54 to 65
Ditto North Wales:

2003 - 49 fatalities
2004 - 58 fatalities

A rise of 18%!!

quote:

A rise of 18%!!

easy answer:
+ in number of camera's
- in number of traffic cops.

but an increase in the number of cyclists killed on the roads..........

I found this report very interesting:

“Speed cameras cause accidents and their deployment should be frozen, said Durham's chief constable Paul Garvin yesterday, because they cause fatal road accidents. He said forces around the country should curb their reliance on speed cameras, according to a report in a local newspaper, and rely instead on "intelligence-led traffic policing".

The county has no fixed speed cameras and was the only county in the north-east to experience a fall in the number of fatal road accidents during 2004. Garvin said that an excess of fixed cameras can damage police efforts to reduce dangerous driving, remarks he supported with yesterday's DfT road death statistics for 2004, which show that the number of people killed on roads in the county fell by 10 in the last year.

Instead, said Garvin, intelligence-led traffic policing was the only way forward. While clearly not content with a figure of 32 dead from road accidents last year, a spokesman said that the policy of "focusing on poor driving and criminal driving rather than simply relying on speed cameras" was having an effect.”

Dan

How many people are potentially affected by the illegal level of microwaves transmitted/ejected/focused/targeted_at_innocents by these cameras ?

Probably slightly less than those who are so affected by use of mobile phones... or normal radio's...etc etc

quote:

Originally posted by andy c:
Probably slightly less than those who are so affected by use of mobile phones... or normal radio's...etc etc

I wonder if it is routine for the police to check whether the drivers of vehicles involved in accidents were using a mobile phone at the time of impact? It is now so commonplace to see drivers dialling or talking on their telephones while driving erratically that some technological fix is the only way to stop this suicidal/murderous behaviour. How much longer before the EU gets serious about driver phone use in a moving vehicle? It seems obvious that individual governments really don't care about this issue. Driving defensively has taken on a whole new meaning when an articulated petrol tanker is coming at you on the wrong side of the road with the driver clearly dialling his mobile phone on the top of the wheel! Is it going to take a major disaster to bring this moronic activity to an end?

Nime me old Danish, I think he refers to microwave emmissions from mobile phones and the danger to health they possibly cause, as with the high power camera stations where policemen warm up their cornish pasties for free, and not the actual use of them as telephones whilst driving, innit.

Fritz Von Are you having a larf ?

How observant me old tøse! My two-point-five remaining brain cells did a bit of lateral thinking and used the chance to have a good moan having faced near death at the hands of yet another petrol tanker driver only this Friday last who was clearly dialling his mobile with both hands on top of the steering wheel!
Where's my rope?

A serious fine & kick up the arse here for using a mobile at a petrol station (sparks and all that) never mind driving a tank full of the shit, which I'm sure is against company policy as well, innit`?


Fritz Von Reminds me of when our Mick got a shock

I was filling up my car with petrol one hot summer's day day when a moron came up with a lit cigarette. Naturally I told him to take it elsewhere. But he then insisted on holding the lit cigarette to my open petrol filling orifice! He claimed there was no danger whatsoever since petrol fumes can't burn. Naturally I was now forced by circumstances to tell him to leave in no uncertain terms! Having become bored by my reaction he cheerfully wandered off to find another minefield to play in. I wonder if they ever looked at the pump surveillance tapes?