samandben wrote:
May I refer this discussion to it's original intention,
That would be the 'OP' or Original Poster ... that's me
samandben wrote:
and a related, serious issue in a separate posting.....Do Winter Drivers need to be better informed?
I understand your concerns and serious interest in Road Safety, after your tragic situation.
With regard to this Consultation I am proposing to bring in a number of areas, of Road Safety :
Inattention is being seriously ignored and people are being KSI (killed or seriously injured),
Frustration which can lead to many direct and subsequent behaviours,
Then we have many road user aids to be guided by (COAST, POWER etc etc) Which may help to show the possibilities of what we all could 'become' with appropriate education and guidance.
The damaging effects of current policy, and as predicted that SI figures will climb and they have BUT ALSO that pedestrian and cyclist figures both in victims and as causers of accidents too.
Speed Cameras - why they cannot work, and how they are not working, but are changing (for the worse), the behaviours of, and manner on, the roads. The serious and detrimental effects are making road users worse, and these effects are becoming ingrained in some sectors of the road user communities.
The reality of lowering the speed limits have already had a horrifying effect on HGV's and car interactions especially, reduce cars to lower speeds is ignoring many of their own figures, (and people will suffer even die, because they think their own idealist preconceptions have some basis in Road Safety).
(We need to reform a Road User Group Collective of specialists & consultants to ensure that the very best advice is sought and each Policy is properly considered before Anything is promoted to the Rule of the Road.)