botach wrote:
Mole wrote:
GOOD! (He says selfishly). I happen to live a very long way from Cambridge, so I'm alright, Jack.
The reason I say "good" is that we could do with a "control" for the next few years. IF Oxfordshire turns all its cameras off and Cambridgeshire doesn't, let's see whose KSI rate changes and which way...
So -you think that safety massaging/culinary accountancy won't take place?...
Indeed, I would expect nothing less of these people!
That said, it's been (I think) happening ever since SCPs were involved, and some figures (like "ks") are harder to fudge than others. We've got, I think, fairly used to spotting the various tricks over the years. I reckon any new ones will come to light in due course. Besides, any masaging up until now will have been made to make the KSIs look lower. That might continue, or it might reverse so that they can create a case for fixed scamera deployment all over again. In the former case, so what?! It's the same system that we're used to, so we'll get a good back-to-back comparison. If it's the latter, they'll have provided the proof that we've been looking for, in many cases. So, for example, if they start shifting from counting "KSI accidents" (i.e. 1 bus with 50 people dead = 1KSI accident) to counting them individually to "big-up the numbers", or if they change the definition of an "SI" to include anything that needs a plaster, or change a "K" to mean anyone that dies within 25 years of the accident, they'll have to explain the policy change.
The big difference here is that unlike the last government, this government doesn't appear to actually WANT fixed scameras...
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