jasonh wrote:"I've lost two friends in accidents but I wouldn't change the law on the driving age."
Jeeeeeeeez. This typifies in my view the major problem with road safety which is that, because of the way the car has evolved over time, many people fail to see the current level of mortality and morbidity on the roads as the absolute feckin' outrage that it is. If the car was invented last week and suddenly all these people were dying we'd be bloody angry about it! But because it's a problem that's evolved from the early days of the car it seems to be seen as some kind of occupational hazard. I suppose it's rather like what people sometimes say about how alcohol would never be legal if it was only just discovered.
ScoobyChris wrote:Does anyone else think that more driving education in schools (a bit like the Americans appear to have) would be useful in educating kids and starting them younger, rather than older? I've always loved cars and my parents used to let me practice clutch control on their drive (it was a nice steep drive!) when I was 14 and I was also lucky enough to have a driving lesson on private grounds when I was 15. It got me a taster for it and I remember from that point I was asking my Dad lots of questions about how/why he drove, etc, etc. It also meant it wasn't quite such a novelty at 17 so I may have been more responsible and more "experienced" than others in my class when I got behind the wheel?
Chris
nuster100 wrote:I think education is the key. People also need to see the consiqenses of their actions. Maybee some hard hitting videos after they pass.
ipsg.glf wrote:An outrage? Sorry? Do you think that people purposely set out every day to kill other people on the road? Apart from the odd lunatic, most collisions are due to people making a simple mistake. A tragic, but simple mistake.
It's like trying to ban sneezing.
An outrage? Sorry? Do you think that people purposely set out every day to kill other people on the road?
ipsg.glf wrote:jasonh wrote:"I've lost two friends in accidents but I wouldn't change the law on the driving age."
Jeeeeeeeez. This typifies in my view the major problem with road safety which is that, because of the way the car has evolved over time, many people fail to see the current level of mortality and morbidity on the roads as the absolute feckin' outrage that it is. If the car was invented last week and suddenly all these people were dying we'd be bloody angry about it! But because it's a problem that's evolved from the early days of the car it seems to be seen as some kind of occupational hazard. I suppose it's rather like what people sometimes say about how alcohol would never be legal if it was only just discovered.
An outrage? Sorry? Do you think that people purposely set out every day to kill other people on the road? Apart from the odd lunatic, most collisions are due to people making a simple mistake. A tragic, but simple mistake.
It's like trying to ban sneezing.
We have to look at fatalities in terms of the number of miles travelled by road users in total. Every activity is risky, even picking your nose.
We just need to get it into a sense of proportion. Expecting all road users to get to IAM/RoSPA/Class 1 standard is never going to happen so we should simply chip away at each collision causation factor as best we can.
I agree that 10 people killed per day is too many but how can we stop people making simple mistakes?
Does anyone else think that more driving education in schools (a bit like the Americans appear to have) would be useful in educating kids and starting them younger, rather than older?
Do you think that people purposely set out every day to kill other people on the road? Apart from the odd lunatic, most collisions are due to people making a simple mistake. A tragic, but simple mistake.
We have to look at fatalities in terms of the number of miles travelled by road users in total. Every activity is risky, even picking your nose…
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