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the quest for safety
IIRC it was a survey by West Midlands Police that found in
nearly 70% of accidents it was the pedestrians fault. I don't consider the police "road lobbies". This thing about pedestrians often being at fault wants clarification surely? If a child runs out between two cars without looking, straight under the wheels of a car doing a legal speed, with a driver keeping an alert lookout, but unable to see the child because perhaps it ran out behind a Transit van or something, it seems a trifle unfortunate for the driver to be labelled at fault. However, if some drunk teenager decides to deliberately walk in front of a speeding car to get it to stop for him in a display of bravado, and calculates it wrongly so he gets run over, should that still be the car drivers fault? I do believe that a significant proportion of the driving population do indeed drive too fast in the situations that may call for a little circumspection, but a rant about all car drivers being in the wrong by dint of being a driver seems unlikely to gain acceptance and rightly so. -- Dave; Who thinks usenet is now getting quite short tempered enough, without me joining in too! |
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