CTC insists thes figures should not be "doom and gloom"
OK - so it's an overall 14% rise and attirbuted to novice riders in the main. (I still say increased volume brings about extra danger and perhaps I should get Kriss to post her China film to either mine or Mad Doc's hosting account - showing her ride and her face sho ing some unusual (for her) fear by contrast with her cycling holidays in UK and Europe.)
CTC argues that in reality the numbers have declined for the eigthth year in a row and that child cycling deaths fell bt 20% in reality.
Paul - perhaps you could even argue some parallels when the CTC ask the very same questions and voice similar doubts about the official stats
Shades of the criticism against Durham in the infamous year when we recorded a massive increase and were still one third lower that average.
I note CTC say the same as the best guv I ever had in Paul Garvin
They more or less quote his statement regarding 2002 stats
CTC as quoted by CW on page 20 of this week's edition wrote:
It is important not to take a single year's in isolataion as fluctuations can happen when small numbers are concerned. Snce the mid 90s - the number of cyclists killed or seriously injured has fallen by 37% from 3732 to 2360 per year
Indeed.. I would love it to be less ..
But this does not reflect on speed cams. Durham recorded below average stats again and in which we can take some pride - but we still strive for lower.
However, I think we do undersestiamte the average Brit driver. Most are decent, caring and courteous and skilled enough. A handful are worrying and a further finger or so could be described as plain dangerous. The truly dangerous are those not legally qualified to drive .. and cams can only detect a registered keeper.
Trafpol can obtain legailty/in of licence /insurance and MOT within seconds. I know we cannot be everywhere - but the right intelligence can direct us to the right result and I will say again - even if you think we take no notice of any report to us because we fail to reply .. please rest assured that we do act on intellligence received by any member of the public and that any formal lack of recognition does not mean we are ignoring the complaints.
please do tell your local police station and do try to give accurate details. We have to cop person in the illegal act and we do lurk once advised in our patch and I thinlk colleagues elsewhere will be on the alert as well