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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <7e2f3c21-970a-40ca-930d-666461f8521d@r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: At last - road deaths to be taken seriously. Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:48:40 -0700 (PDT) References: <36bcd9c9-9850-4c12-ae70-4214dfa3f401@z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> <80f1b722-716a-40fd-9e30-b7425701e221@e20g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>   Lines: 48 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242323320 25654 127.0.0.1 (14 May 2009 17:48:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3188 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:701435

On May 14, 10:08=A0am, "mileburner"  wrote: > "Brimstone"  wrote in message > > news:kMqdnZrb8fXyRZbXnZ2dnUVZ8o2dnZ2d@bt.com... > > > > > Mas...@BP.com wrote: > >> On 14 May, 08:12, "Mas...@BP.com"  wrote: > >>> It's been a long time coming but at last road deaths will get the > >>> same level of investigation as flooding, air crashes and train > >>> accidents. > > >>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8048971.stm > > >>> -- > >>> Simon Mason > > >> Of course I should have said it's just a proposal at present. > > > Your clarification will save an awful lot of posts. > > > I think the proposal is an excellent one, but sadly unlikely to get any > > further. > > If put into practice it will unturn a lot of stones. And with each and ev= ery > stone unturned, there will be a conclusion as to how the accident could h= ave > been prevented. And with each conclusion as to how the accident could hav= e > been prevented there will be new rules and safety measures put into place= to > prevent it happening again. And when those rules are broken, poor Mr Toad > will be fined or go to prison. > > If motorists think they have it bad now with speed cameras, just wait a f= ew > years. Licences will be hard to get and easily taken away. People will no= t > be able to rely on their cars. Isn't that what the guvvermunt want?

It's certainly what you, and others here, want. But thankfully what is proposed wouldn't result in any such thing: proper and unbiased investigation of fatal accidents would very quickly make it apparent that exceeding the speed limit had nothing to do with accidents, resulting in there being even less justification for the use of speed cameras than there is already.