GreenShed wrote:
Oh dear! Fatals down, well you can't argue that's not god news.
Of course it's good news. The issue here is what caused this shift.
GreenShed wrote:
How about a few more unsupported random reasons why this may be:
Lots of aunties have died in 2008 so fewer people are driving to visit them
Maybe the increase in obesity is is reducing the number of people who can fit in their cars
Swallows have migrated to Algeria
Wet leaves on the track
The Olympics in Beijing
More funding awarded to the museum in Bletchley Park
I saw a girl driving a brown 206
There was more flowers planted on roundabouts in 2008
An increase in the use of moss-killer on lawns
I don't know if any of these things have had an effect or indeed are true but they have the same basis in fact as the crap you guys have posted above...stop making it up and acknowledge that which has made this difference.
How childish!
What has made the difference:
Is it just the speed camera policy?
Or do these other factors have to be considered:
- The continued road engineering?
- More effective police crackdowns?
- The reduced amount of travel (fuel costs and recession)
- Better car design (the
average UK car is getting safer every year)
- Better post crash response and care?
- Pushed traffic displacement to safer roads?
Surely we can all agree all these other factors can result with a reduction of fatalities at a national level, so let's not get carried away and say it's because of the speed or speed camera policy. Afterall, the KSI rate was falling disproportionately faster for many years before cameras were used (and when traffic levels were increasing much faster too).
We don't need evidence to support these other factors, a reasoned argument will do. Like I've already said to you:
Isn't an logical argument, which as yet remains unrefuted despite ample opportunity for scrutiny, not strong support for my charges? If not then why not?GreenShed wrote:
Just a couple of posts before RTTM...
RTTM won't apply at this national level, there hasn't been an unrelated recent deviation from trend to capitalise on.