On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:59:36 +0100 someone who may be Tom Anderson
wrote this:-

I was thinking more along the lines of intrusive safety measures; if we
valued human life more than our own convenience, we'd impose blanket 10
mph speed limits in towns, and enforce them, enforce all existing
safety-related rules properly, punish all driving offences by
disqualification, re-test everyone every five years, etc.

When the Health & Safety Executive were empire building a decade or
so ago they thought that transport was a good way to do this. They
got their grubby little hands on railway safety (and made the once
world respected Railway Inspectorate something of a laughing stock
after they had installed their Factory Inspectors in it). They then
looked at extending their empire to road safety, but ran away
screaming when they considered it.


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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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