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DRIVING STANDARDS GETTING WORSE
The new edition of Transport Statistics Great Britain, on November 2nd 2006 by Department for Transport makes it abundantly clear that road safety is being badly hit by bad policy.
Lack of effective and available Road Traffic Policing showing up clearly as increases in drunk drivers and as reductions in breath tests.
Paul Smith, of the Safe Speed (www.safespeed.org.uk) said: "Department for Transport policies are not making our roads safer.
An obsession with speeding and a gross neglect of both effective roads policing and driver quality mean that road deaths are far higher than they should be. Department for Transport is responsible."
"Car driver and passenger deaths are higher now than they were in the year 2000 (table 8.2) and they should not be.”
“We know we have put safer vehicles on the roads, we know we have engineered out problem spots and we know we have got better at post crash care.
The only explanation is that drivers are getting worse under the influence of bad policy (growth in traffic is nowhere near enough to account for this effect)."
"Department for Transport is not fit for purpose."
'TSGB' published 2/11/06: Here
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