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More wishful thinking about "No Excuse"
We're seeing more and more nonsense in Dorset, it's
getting hard to keep up:
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/9403718.Dorset_road_safety_campaign_showing_results/?ref=la
I see. So because there were 6 killed and 75
seriously injured, and in an equivalent period last year, the numbers were 8 and
79, chief fire officer Darran Gunter, states: “The No Excuse Campaign, of which
Dorset Fire and Rescue Service are a key partner, continues to provide
demonstrable quarter by quarter progress, in reductions of fatalities and
injuries.”
So No excuse (and nothing else) saved exactly 2
lives and 4 serious injuries. Oh good grief.
I'm sure that those in the Dorset Fire Authority do
excellent and difficult work (unlike those in Dorset Road Unsafe) but perhaps
they should stick to tackling fires, not numbers.
This shows rolling 12 monthly cumulative chart of
child ksi casualties for Dorset.
Note the absurd trend line which has been dreamed up
by someone which looks more like part of a circle than anything else. So has no
excuse also doubled child casualties in the last 5 months?
This shows the total ksi count:
Over a period of time we can see only a gentle
downward slope, due to all sorts of things like:
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rocketing fuel and insurance costs hitting the youngest and most
dangerous drivers the most
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increasing proportion of safer cars on the road, air bags, anti-skid
brakes, safety cages, etc etc.
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road engineering improvements
-
recession
and even
over 3 years, we cannot see that no excuse has made any difference at all.
While everyone in Dorset Road Unsafe keeps on
telling themselves and everyone else that "no excuse" is working, while it
completely fails to tackle seriously dangerous driving, the progress that should
be being made is not.
Can I suggest, in the interest of progress, that
Dorset Road Unsafe stops these stories of total fantasy and gets success
properly, scientifically, and independently assessed. Or might that provide a
result that might be inconvenient?
It is of course dangerous to rely on something for
safety that doesn't actually work.
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