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Society is too tolerant of irresponsible driving

Chris Oldham, Shrewsbury SY4
16 September 2016
Richard Allsop’s Viewpoint on the Vision Zero approach to road safety generated a big mailbag for our last issue.
Richard Allsop’s Viewpoint on the Vision Zero approach to road safety generated a big mailbag for our last issue.
The discussion continues on these pages with contributions from Sean Corker, Chris Oldham, Philip Sulley and David Andrews
The discussion continues on these pages with contributions from Sean Corker, Chris Oldham, Philip Sulley and David Andrews

 

Richard Allsop says that society accepts deaths and injuries on UK roads as the trade-off for the benefits of road transport (LTT 19 Aug). Unfortunately this is a very harsh reality. Drivers of road vehicles are a quirky bunch to say the least, and a very biased bunch too, something that is irresponsibly fed by headline-seeking journalism, and deliberately avoided by politicians.

If there is an air crash, it will be headline news for several days, and reporters like nothing more than to dig out...

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