-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Manslaughter charges at last? - Equality StreetsEquality Streets on Admission
- OK, Really, What About The Roads? on Priority
- The unbearable crassness of agreeing - Equality StreetsEquality Streets on War on Britain’s Roads
- Accidents at Traffic Lights – Lets End The Madness | StrikeEngine – Car Tuning on Four Thought – correction
- Albert Slawson on Contact and links
Meta
Tag Archives: driving test
Ministerial mess – corporate manslaughter
Updated in July 2024, the DfT’s accredited “accident” statistics reveal that 29,643 human beings were killed or seriously injured in 2023. It’s an estimate of the number of personal injury road traffic casualties in Great Britain reported by the police … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged corporate manslaughter, DfT, driving test, Equality Streets, road accidents, scandal, STATS19, traffic accidents
Leave a comment
“Accidents” and corporate manslaughter
One of my sayings is, “Most accidents are not accidents. They are events contrived by the rules and design of the road.” Recent fatal “accidents” in Wales involving teenage men prompt me to add “an inadequate driving test.” It’s absurd … Continue reading
Targeting blame
A woman was killed, three people were hurt, and the Piccadilly Line was closed after a Range Rover crashed in Park Royal. Labour councillor for Balham, Jo Rigby, wrote, “A child will grow up without a mother because a man … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged car crash, driving test, Equality Streets, inappropriate speed, Jo Rigby, speeding
Leave a comment
Hit by a bus
The phrase, “You could be killed crossing the road” is a thoughtlessly-repeated phrase, e.g. the other day on The Today Programme by Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty (10.1. 2021, I think it was). Making some parallel with the risk of … Continue reading
State-sponsored child abuse?
A boy of 11 is killed trying to cross the road. Was it an accident? Or was it an avoidable event contrived by the rules of the road, combined with the power imbalance the rules impose, and the mindset they instil? … Continue reading
Inadequate traffic authorities
The current driving test is predicated on anti-social priority. Advice and practice stem from that odious premise, so the driving test unleashes cohorts of barbaric drivers onto our barbaric roads. The Highway Code says pedestrians have priority at junctions. This … Continue reading
