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A road accident resulting in people being killed or seriously injured must
be one of the worst things that can happen.
This is exactly why road policy and enforcement should treat safety
as the most critical aim, and secondarily, to promote efficient traffic flow. It
should ensure that the maximum effort should be targeted at the most important problems,
and not at operations which are likely to target safe driving and be interpreted as only a way to make easy money.
It should be the responsibility of those empowered with this duty, to do the best
job they can possibly do to achieve this.
Sadly, it is the belief of many, that road safety methods and enforcements at
the moment are badly misguided. While large numbers of safe motorists are penalised
for driving at a speed which absolutely no one would consider is dangerous, the
problem speeders who are practiced at avoiding detection, and the large proportion
of other drivers who demonstrate many of the multitude of other driving problems,
continue with little likelihood of detection and education or penalty, and the daily
list of closed roads due to accidents mentioned on local radio stations seems to
continue growing.
Most of us are familiar with the idea of government and councils getting things
badly wrong, but this is much more serious, and as individuals, we can do nothing
about it.
It is the aim of this site, to focus public attention on this issue, and hopefully
eventually
to collectively challenge, and maybe even change, the way in which this critical activity is
carried out. Speed limits and enforcements are a vital part of road safety, but
must be set realistically, applied proportionately, with other types of enforcement, and in a way which generates general respect and
support, and therefore, ultimately, improving safety and efficiency.
The situation is getting worse, and will continue to deteriorate, unless something
is done. To do nothing is no longer an option. It is truly extraordinary and very
sad that the "authorities" seem to be attempting to provoke outrage by alienating
large numbers of the public against road safety efforts, while doing little relevant
to improving road safety and efficiency.
We now need a system which achieves real accident rate reductions combined
with traffic flow improvements, rather than one which is simply very good at generating
a huge quantity of motoring
convictions. The likely difference in accident rates,
serious accidents, and road deaths, resulting from what is being done now, and what
should be being done, doesn't bear thinking about.
You can now make a difference, by supporting the efforts of DorsetSpeed.
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