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All Road safety officers are constantly
banging on about "The Three E's" Education,
Enforcement and Engineering. |
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| Enforcement | Speed cameras increased in number over
2004 and the death toll still increased nationally by 2%. |
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| Engineering | A loaded gun is a potential danger in the wrong hands.
Safer vehicles are only as good as those who control them.
A safe road is as safe as those who use them. (All road users.) |
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| Education | Education is by far the cheapest option in monetary
terms and therefore the most cost effective in saving lives. If taking an advanced driving course reduces the risk of death or serious injury by 30%, and getting a RoADA Gold can reduce this by up to 75%, why not just do it? If the taxpayer was made publicly aware that each fatality cost £1.4 million, then multiply this by 3,500 deaths per annum giving a total of £4.9 billion; (I’ll be happy to avoid paying this money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer!!!) Add the cost of injury only traffic crashes and we get into silly money! This is not even taking into account the greater cost - the death or maiming of a human being, the suffering their loved ones and the trauma to those others involved. |
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Why don't we take the obvious action and invest much more money in Road Safety Education? Just a little of the above costs could make a dramatic difference.
Jonathan Wernick in Rutland
site last updated March 2006
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