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 Post subject: TV this evening
PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 20:28 
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As I got home this evening there was a news feature stating that in Herts and Cambs fatals due to RTC's were up 75% on the previous 12 months. This is appalling and let's hope it's just a very bad year and that it will revert to the mean, or, hopefully, even better than that in the next 12 months.
However, what was particularly interesting was a senior traffic police spokesman who stated, on air, that over 90% of all these crashes were due to driver error, mainly in the form of inattention to their driving. Exceeding the speed limit was not even mentioned once.
Is the message finally getting through? Let's just hope so as the Cambs. H.A. have just wasted £2.5M on SPECS cameras to address 1% of accident causation on the A14 from Cambridge to Huntingdon whilst telling our village road-safety committee that we can't have the cash for a much-needed light-controlled pedestrian crossing in our village as there is 'no money available'. You bet there isn't - they've just wasted it all!


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Liebchen .. it already posted in "News"

But I know what you say. Our family exposed fib in past. They not claim this for scams now :lol:

But if scams work.. should be zero. Only the errors described require the rarely spotted Black Rat :wink:

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