A wasp could have caused a rail tragedyTrucker hit rail barrier A LORRY driver ignored safety warnings and drove across a dangerous level crossing and crashed into the barrier as it was coming down. James Saddington, aged 62, was fined at Northampton...
Well, it had to happen one day... I am in complete agreement with you.
I always used to ask new buttociates, "why are you here?". If they said that it was to get cheap insurance or anything like that, I told them that if that was the prime motivation then they were wasting their time. I was only interested in teaching those who really wanted to learn something. I have also had police instructors tell me how once a basic driver has got their ticket and goes back on patrol, the first thing that goes out of the window is the driving. Apparently, they just have too much else to think about.
All that said. I still believe that the original premise that "there's only a small link between ability and accident risk" is overstated. Those who are genuinely better trained have only reached that level because they really wanted to. That in and of itself shows an entirely different atbreastude to the average driver and will therefore result in an approach that reduces the opportunity for involvement in "at fault" accidents.
-- 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
