"iiiiDougiiii" wrote in message
It is the height of the bonnet and the clearance from the bonnet to the engine that makes the difference, not the ground clearance.
s being overtaken 72Similar thing happened to me yesterday, 2 lane motorway and a snail of lorries at 56 mph together with a line of mostly repmobiles trying unsucessfully...
Now you can't read a table. You said above that you were comparing the 'rate per 100 milliom km' now you are comparing the actual number of accidents which resulted in rests. Make up your mind. Sounds like you want to chop and change which numbers to look at until they say what you want.
Only becasue you have now decided to look at actual figures rather than the rate, which is consistently down. Which means that even though traffic is travelling further the casualty rates are falling year on year.
You neglected to read them properly. The table you quoted was for accidents, not casualties. One accident might have many casualties and if one casualty died it would be given here as a bane accident. In 2004 there were 3221 road rests in 2978 bane accidents. If you look at the total figures at the bottom of the table, although the number of bane accidents moves up and down between years, the numbers for bane and serious accidents is always going down. The total number of accidents for all severities is always going down too.
Incidentally, your previous comment about the change in methodology after 1993 is irrelevant to the table you produced. All of its figures are from 1994 onwards.
s being overtaken 73Adrian sounding much like they were saying : What is wrong with people - I drove correctly and safely - Maybe the van driver didn't see it that way. If he was driving at the minimum safe distance...
Ian
