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Introduce compulsory driver re-testing to make roads safe

Richard Evans, London SW20
14 November 2014
 

Iain Reeve reminds us that the vast majority of road crashes – between 90% and 99% – are caused by human error (ibid). At the other end of the scale, just 2% of road crashes are caused by vehicle defects. That rather begs the question: why don’t we re-test drivers every year in the same way we give vehicles an MOT?

In my experience about half of the drivers on today’s roads are not fit to drive. If we could fail them at the next re-test we’d solve a whole raft of...

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