Just spotted this in the Sunday Times..
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/articl ... 49,00.html
Quote:
Shadow of a speed warning
By Ray Hutton of The Sunday Times
Motoring organisations are lobbying the government for a new way to scare speeders into obeying the law. Rather than putting up more speed cameras, the AA Trust, a charity funded by the AA, wants highway authorities to use road signs shaped like human bodies. Similar warnings are already used on some French roads. Life-sized silhouettes are placed alongside dangerous stretches with the number of deaths that year on the body.
Bert Morris, the director of the AA Trust, said the signs would drive home the dangers of speeding and could reduce the number of prosecutions. “Many drivers cannot accept speed limits because they can’t see the point,” he said. “We need to tell them why the limit and the camera are there and how many people have died on the road. Shrines at the roadside remind people of the dangers and putting these silhouettes up would be another message.”
Accident data from 850 of the nation’s main roads show the highest-risk routes were most frequently single carriageways through rural, hilly areas, while motorways had the lowest accident rate.
The most dangerous road in Britain, according to the AA statistics, is the A537 from Macclesfield in Cheshire to Buxton in Derbyshire. Accidents involving motorcyclists accounted for 20 out of 22 fatal or serious crashes along this stretch between 2001 and 2003.
What absolute bo11ock5. It might have a transient beneficial effect, but in the longer term it will subconsciously encourage people to ignore humans at the side of the road as the're probably signs and not real.
Who on earth comes up with these harebraned schemes?
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