Dorset Speed facebook group was shut down!!
Here is the link to the new group
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Dorset Road Safe incorrectly claiming benefit
for ksi reductions yet again
All that Dorset Road $afe seems to be able to come up with is condescending
comments about those it stops, and wishful thinking about it’s effectiveness. No
evidence or even any attempt to provide a credible argument that it saves lives.
Common sense, and data and events in Dorset and around the UK all say the same
thing – the current automated speed enforcements cost lives, they don’t save
them. And education, that’s a joke. The message seems to be obey the law, don’t
think about it, no excuse. What good is “awareness” under this approach? You
only need “education” if you need help understanding whether 28, 29, 31, 32 etc.
are above or below 30. For every person “educated”, the Dorset authorities make
an obscene 150% (£60) PROFIT, although it’s probably much higher than this as
they are unable to state what the £813,000 claimed for cost of courses is spent
on and even refuse to communicate about this question, even under FOI, and a
driver behaving badly (if that's what it is) it able to buy off the penalty
points they should have received.
KSIs are down sharply across the country, largely due to rocketing fuel and
insurance costs, recession, improved engineering, safer cars, etc etc. It is
arrogant, ignorant and dishonest for Dorset Road Safe to claim all the credit
for this through “no excuse”.
Again, you need nothing more than common sense to see why “no excuse” doesn’t
work – it’s simply making people better at not getting caught, it’s not
improving driving. And it’s targeting largely trivial and harmless problems, not
tailgating, dangerous overtaking, bad use of sliproads / junctions etc. The laws
are ridiculous, we have speed limits MUCH too low and although holding a phone
briefly while sitting in traffic is illegal, reading / writing emails etc. with
a cradle mounted phone driving at normal speeds, technically, is not. This is
why laws have to be enforced with a degree of COMMON SENSE, far from what we
have now with the rush to get as many people as possible onto courses at huge
profit.
Dorset Road Safe is unable to answer concern / criticism, this completes the
picture of an organisation that seems interested only in itself, not saving
life.
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