Murder Most Foul

"The trouble with the facts about the law-breaking of the motorists and the motor interests is that there are too many: it is difficult even to grasp them. In fact, the position has long since passed far beyond the limits of ordinary law-breaking and become an exhibition of national degeneracy."

Murder Most Foul was published in 1947 as a stinging rebuke to the "road safety" establishment whose deference to motor interests was seen as stealing the streets out from under the very feet of Britain's pedestrians. Many of the criticisms levelled in this book, written by the then-chair of the Pedestrians Association, are as valid now as they were then. If you ever wondered how we got to the situation where speeding motorists could blame cameras for causing road deaths, then you could do worse than start here.

The book is long out of print and out of copyright. This PDF was taken from http://www.motorcarnage.org.uk, which now appears to be defunct (archive). Howard Peel is still around, though.


 * Murder-Most-Foul.pdf (PDF)
 * from Carlton Reid of BikeBiz.