I am beginning to think of myself as a road safety campaigner as much as a cycle safety campaigner. I am working on school transport planning, active in campaigning for legislative changes, for example to end the ridiculous situation where the penalty for leaving the scene of a crash is lower than that for drink-driving, giving every drunk an incentive to flee instead of dealing with the consequences of a crash.
So I have decided to separate out the generic road safety pages and place them here, which should improve the signal-to-noise ratio in the cycling section.
The feedback link is at the bottom, as usual, but before launching a diatribe please make sure that I have not already covered it in my stock response.
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| One In Three | | | One in three deaths attributable to speed cameras? Let's have a look. |
| Cameras-Against | | | Tom Heavey's commentary on SafeSpeed's document "Speed Cameras - The Case Against" |
| History | | | Key developments in road safety in the UK |
| Risk, by John Adams | | | Review of the book Risk by John Adams, which is compulsory reading for any genuine road safety campaigner. |
| Motorcycle Helmets | | | Helmets for cyclists might be controversial, but nobody could possibly doubt that for motorcyclists they are a vital safety aid. Or could they? |
| Speeding | | | My thoughts on speeding, why Paul Smith is wrong, and why I can't be arsed to argue about it any more. |
| Leaving The Scene | | | Leaving the scene of an "accident" is an offence, but the penalties are sufficiently low that it is an attractive choice for a driver who knows they are unfit through drink or drugs. |
| Death on the Streets | | | Review of the book Death on the Streets - cars and the mythology of road safety, by Bob Davis. |
| Road Safety Campaigning | | | A lot of my road safety pages have only a peripheral relationship to cycling, so I have collected them here. |
| 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." |
| The 12mph Comedy Web Page | | | New! Improved! Now with added extra mental gymnastics! It's the SafeSpeed 12mph Comedy web Page, version 2! |
| Belt up | | | Seat belt save lives, right? Well, maybe. But whose lives? |
| What is a speedophile? | | | Speedophiles kill more children that paedophiles do, but it's not about alliteration... |
| Safer Roads Manifesto | | | Modest proposals to increase road safety - without cutting anybody's goolies off at all. |
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