Tag Archives: road casualties

Falling on deaf ears

Annual casualties on our roads are equivalent to more than one Grenfell a day. Yet while Grenfell gets blanket media coverage, 30,000 equally avoidable road casualties – given that my umpteenth pitch to the Press has just been ignored – … Continue reading

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Complaint

In an item about SADS, the Today Programme spoke about the tragedy of a life cut short. There are 12 cases of SADS a week, but statistically, road casualties far outnumber them. Yet, despite the fact that most road casualties … Continue reading

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Not to denigrate Gosport but …

Now there will be wall-to-wall media coverage of the Gosport hospital deaths (from over-prescription of painkillers) in the 1990s – 456 plus possibly another 200. Will the media kick up a similar storm over the 24,000 killed and hurt on … Continue reading

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