I wonder how close they're going to look? Naturally one would expect CSCP to strenuously maintain that they were making a useful contribution (notwithstanding the larger numbers of people actually being killed on our roads)!
I heard the sad news that some more people were killed on the A6 the other week near Carlisle. Apparently a notorious accident blackspot that had claimed lives last year too. I was wondering what the situation would be if engineering changes were made to that bit of road to make it safer? If the accidents went down would it make CSCP look good? Are the DfT likely to take such things into account?
Anyway, while I'm here (been away quite a lot these last few months) it may amuse my fellow forumites to hear that Mrs. Mole was "Scammed" a few weeks ago on the M6! (oh how we laughed!)
. She'd unexpectedly got half a day off work and decided to nip down to Manchester to get herself some more maternity clothes - yes, exceeding the speed limit with my unborn child in her womb!) It was late morning, no rush hour traffic, dry roads, good visibility etc so some scammer decided to do her at the reckless speed of...
... 79 MPH.
WELL THAT'LL MAKE CUMBRIA'S ROADS A LOT SAFER THEN!
Strangely enough, the next day I was using said stretch of road and doing "about 80" when I was passed by a marked police car going "a bit faster than that". No lights, no siren, just going about his (or maybe her) business. What is it about putting a copper in a van on a bridge? When they're in their cars driving like the rest of us, they never give us a minute's bother and yet as soon as you sit one in a van, all discretion, training, common sense etc seems to go out of the window!
Oh, and the other bit of news was that I was involved in an RTA the other week and YES! it was down to excess speed! Naturally, you wouldn't be expecting me to shout about it if it had been MY fault and indeed it wasn't! It was a narrow (single track) NSL road not far from where I live and some nutter came tanking round a blind bend towards me far too fast for the conditions, locked up and hit me. I was stationary by this time - having only been doing about 25 before the accident and I had wriggled as far on to the verge as the hedge permitted by the time he hit me. He probably wouldn't have been doing much more than 45 when he saw me and probably rather less than 20 when he hit me so nobody was hurt but it really did hammer home the message that simple numerical enforcement of speed limits just isn't the answer - and never will be other than in a very small minority of cases!
OK, I'm preaching to the converted but I do feel better for a little rant!
Night Night!