NIP arrived. 965Mark Foster Or money. I object to this demonisation of "dangerous" junctions too. But it doesn't alter the fact that certain busy road...
NIP arrived. 966sounding much like they were saying : Everything comes back to money. Always. It's one of the immutable facts of...
So, here is a good example.
On the local news last night there was an article about two people having been end in a crash with a lorry. This, apparently, after 2 million quid having been spent on improving the "notorious" road, speed cameras being installed and a reduction in the speed limit.
Due to the dumbing down of the reporting that is prevalent in the BBC now they never actually said what you could see for yourself on the screen.
NIP arrived. 967Unfortunately your road-airline comparison fails. The number of vehicles involved in air traffic is tiny compared...
The car was turning right out of a junction, with good sight lines in both directions, and did so right in the path of a 14ft tall, 7ft wide, bright white artic that had just pbutted a truvelo speed camera not 100 metres previously so was almost certainly not speeding.
Now, at no point, anywhere, in the news report did anyone say that the driver f***ed up. All the report was interested in was the fact that despite the 2 million quid having been spent it was still "dangerous".
It really was a perfect example of how language is used to shift the responsibility away from the ones that f***ed up. It was all the road's fault.
So, to all those who suggested that this kind of thing doesn't happen and that I was imagining it in my own little world... f*** you.
-- Mark Foster, Brighton, Suslove, UK PGP Fingerprint: 3342 C02C 7BE8 3FE4 AAC5 8BB2 03B7 9263 DDF2 04C1 -------------------------------------------------- "There are no such useless words as, 'I didn't have a chance.'" Driving, HMSO
