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Default OT The meter reader cometh

On 17 Sep 2006 12:03:22 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:

|On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:48:50 UTC, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:
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| And all governments have done a lot about reducing that as well.
| Enforcing speed limits
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|To make money.

It actually saves lives
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| putting in traffic calming measures
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|Which can have a negative impact on road safety

Which save lives

| and improving the treatment of victims
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|Closing A&E departments.
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|Yes.

Have you been in an A&E dept lately?
All high tech in order to save more lives.

You snipped the reduction in death rates from 22 to less than 10 in my
memory. while traffic has increased massively.
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