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Road safety industry shouldn’t take credit for casualty decline

Ben Hamilton-Baillie - Hamilton-Baillie Associates, Bristol, BS8
29 July 2011
 

Anthropologists have long noted the tendency for every society to support shamans to explain events and predict the future. Philip Sulley is one of many modern-day shamans who ascribe the decline in road fatalities to safety measures such as vehicle design, seat belts, legislation and highway layouts (ibid). Earlier shamans could similarly link the arrival of seasonal rain to their determined rain-dances.

Philip finds it “incredible” that fatality rates have fallen below 2,000 per...

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