| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tree Murdered for 'experimental' cycleway. | |
| Posted by: | Ed Saper | |
| Date/Time: | 06/12/21 17:02:00 |
| Michael Adams made the very good and not all *stupid* point: "Whereas - quite sensible people were driving around in motor cars for 60 years before *anyone* bar eccentrics anyway, saw any need for seat belts." So that would be the period 1923 to 1983 - halcyon days for motoring. It is a very good thing they didn't have road casualty statistics during that period. It would be inconvenient if there were, because it might show that road casualties were at their highest peace time level around the mid 60s with, just speculating, nearly 8,000 killed and around 350,000 injured, despite a smaller population and far fewer people having driving licenses or cars. Makes you wonder why drink driving legislation was introduced in 1967 if there were no recorded deaths, injuries and every driver drove sober and sensible? Today we have around 1,500 people die on the roads and circa 150,000 injuries - a lot less than the nonexistent statistics from yesteryear. Imagine how few we'd have if we didn't have seatbelt laws, drink driving laws or 20mph speed limits and relied on Michael's assurance that all drivers are quite sensible and wouldn't do anything *stupid* unlike those *stupid* *yobbo* *cyclists*. |