Worst Driving Experience Ever 145Following up to Brimstone No, an *accident* stems from the actions of the driver, he doesn't will the cliff into existence Danger does not materialise at the...
Following up to David Knowles
this is one danger to be found in a road.
Take a road with no junctions v a road with 100 junctions. The former has 0 scope for driver error at junctions, one has 100. The latter is more dangerous, the error is made by the driver but the road supplies more opportunities for those errors. Its important to understand the difference between "danger" and "mistake or accident" (other) people here are constantly butterting things that nobody has said because they are blurring "danger" with "error". Danger is a potential, it doesn't spring into existence at the time of an accident, as some here claim.
Worst Driving Experience Ever 144Following up to Brimstone They are potentially dangerous, especially the ones in the Thames estuary if you believe the press. Unless they have been made safe by...
Drivers make "errors" negotiating "dangers". Blame lies with the driver. roads have degrees of objective danger in them.
roads don't need to do things to be dangerous, (although of course drivers have accidents, not roads), "danger" is not equal to "accident". "Danger" is a potential, accident is an event. A "dangerous road" is often one where the consequences of an accident will be greater than a safer one. We should not exclude objective danger from road safety, "danger" = likelihood of error + consequences of error. Crash barriers don't "do" anything but they influence the level of danger in a road. -- Mike Reid
