Fenland Flyer wrote:I saw it as well. Absolutely scandalous, this man is employed by, and is a spokesman for, the IAM not BRAKE, yet he was giving out the BRAKE message. It's not the roads that are dangerous, it's the drivers who can't control their cars/motorcycles properly. However, he didn't mention this once, just kept talking about the lack of road-side safety features. I'm not impressed.
Porker wrote:You can listen to the interview on iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00l348s/Today_25_06_2009/
It starts at about 1h:42m into the programme.
The general thrust is that roads are dangerous if they do nothing to save the road user once they've left the grey portion. Driver training was mentioned only in passing. Neil seemed to favour more signing of hazards, including what he referred to as "white lines", whatever that was supposed to mean.
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martine wrote:but Mr. Greig is still pushing out the wrong message in my opinion. He mentioned poor barrier protection, the dangers of junctions etc but completely ommited 'driver education'.
fungus wrote:The problem with the ABD and Safe Speed is that they're seen by the politicaly correct media as a load of petrol heads, without so much as an ounce of sense between them. If they would only take the time to read some of the information on their websites, maybe, although it's not likely, they would put across the views of people who take driving seriously, and not only the emotive views of BRAKE.....
adiNigel wrote:The problem with ABD is that when they started out they were so emotionally anti camera they are going to take a long time to be taken seriously, even though they may well have some good info now.
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