This article really wound me up.
It sums up everything thing wrong with the current road safety agenda.
This sort of rubbish plays a very dangerous game with statistics, and journalists who have probably only have GSCEs in maths and science only compound the situation.
Just because they can identify that one number is bigger than the other, which is almost defiantly the limit of her mathematical ability she climbs on her high horse.
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“a child hit at 40mph has a 90% chance of dying compared with just 3% at 20mph. What part of that statistic do people not understand?”
Does she not understand the whole point of road safety should be tiring to reduce the number collisions? Does she not understand people crashing into people at any speed is not a good thing. Does she not see that for every 100 collisions at 20mph 3 children statistically speaking will die? (1000 goes to 30 10000 – 300 etc etc). Which I believe is scary, however Susan seems to believe this is a good thing! We need to aim to reduce collisions, not just accept them.
Then this.
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“I'd say Tufty and his pals have a lot to answer for. There's nothing wrong with road safety education, of course, but the problem is that by placing the emphasis on teaching them how to stay out of harm's way, these campaigns signalled that responsibility for keeping children safe lay with the children themselves, rather than the adults who designed the streets and drove the cars.”
!!!!! Surly the responsibility for road safety is the responsibility of every on using the road!!! Children need to know roads are dangerous and need to know how to stay out of harms way, drivers can’t see everything.
Sorry long post..
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