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Time for deus ex machina, or perhaps deus ex guardrailia?

John Adams - Emeritus professor of geography, University College London, WC1E
26 August 2011
 

Philip Sulley describes the fall in fatalities since 1966 as “surprisingly rapid”. Were he to be familiar with the literature surrounding the Smeed Curve he would be less surprised. I would welcome his observations on the evidence to which I called his attention in my last letter (http://john-adams.co.uk/

wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Management-of-the-risks-of-transport2.pdf). On a time series plot of deaths/vehicle kilometre it is remarkably difficult to see the effect of measures,...

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