JJ wrote:
In the main residental areas are 30mph or even 20 mph zones accidents tend to be slight with the occasional serious or worse.
So what happened to, "Hit at 30mph, 50% of pedestrians will die", and "You're twice as likely to kill someone at 35 as at 30".
Or do you now implicitly recognise this as a misrepresentation at best?
After all, as you say, you only get the occasional serious or worse - and how do you get worse than the death of a child running across the street?
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The criteria which we have to work to would not allow us operate in thses areas, as accidents do not cluster
If the truth be known, accidents don't cluster anywhere, except on a short-term basis - the RTTM effect - unless you have the rare true accident blackspot. Just get a computer to print a few hundred dots at random places on a map of England, and you'll see plenty of 'clusters'.
There's a lot of us who are plagued by chavs racing down our streets at 80+ at all times of the night, but we never see a camera. Why is that?
Cheers
Peter