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They just showed an annoying road safety item.

They showed lots of crashes and claimed that it was a 'hidden death toll'; the old if these people died for any other reason there would be an outrage. What about MRSA? Accidents in the Home? Accidents on stairs?

Ladyman claimed credit for the safest roads in the world. Cheating bastard. He's inherited it and present policy is causing us to lose our lead.

Anyone else see it?

Anyone got a BBC link? I can't find one.

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Paul Smith
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Here it is: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm (this link fails sometimes ???)

Alternative link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs ... 208032.stm

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Paul Smith
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Just had a similar thing on BBC Look East (East Anglia region) a day out with police patrol cars, one from Northampton concerning following case.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nort ... 207028.stm

Death toll in Northants had doubled this year !!, despite all the "safety cameras". I just made sure they didn't get any money from me with their speeding allegation from an LTI 20-20 camera van.

The link you gave didn't seem to load properly.

I've dug deeper and added another by editing the post above. Thanks.

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Paul Smith
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Paul, Mr Ladyman says that through the use of technology (speed cameras) they have been very effective according to all the statistics.

So you must be wrong, since who can argue with such dependable results, however bent they may be.

As Churchill may have said, they are using statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost, more for support than illumination.

They link works ok now, but came up in Real Player, but was better once I switched over to the Windows Media Player.

Even more crap on telly this morning. I suspect it is a smoke screen for some realy bad figures.

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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy
“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

What time, what channel, what did they say? Or any further information?

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Paul Smith
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