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Damian Blake is trying to get bloggers to start having their voices heard about Road Deaths. He wants us to:
- Write a post on your own blog;
- Tag it with “roadsafetyblog,” link to this post or add a comment below with the link;
- If you don’t have a blog, you can comment here;
- Most importantly, we need your suggestions on how to improve things;
- I’ll prepare a report on the submissions, and forward it to the Minister, Taoiseach, Road Safety Authority, Insurance Federation and every member of the Oireachtas.
The map on roaddeaths.ie is chilling. My own view is here.
I’m doing something and hope to have it finished later today, if blogger is letting me post.
My view here – http://dansullivan.blogspot.com/2006/10/there-are-no-accidents-like.html
I tagged it but it can’t coming up on techno as yet.
The slogans all read: “SPEED KILLS”
This should be amended to read “BAD DRIVING KILLS”.
So, it is axiomatic that Bad Drivers should be removed from the road.
Not by Gardai hiding under trees, on straight roads at 4 in the afternoon, collecting stealth taxes for Cullen to piss away on his PR assistant; not by spending a fortune on bill boards that no one reads; not by the installation of more traffic lights (And who has the contract for the supply of these accident generators?); not by the imposition of penalty points & other revenue collection systems.
It is by removing Bad Drivers from the roads. Fail the test; lose the licence; bald tyres – lose the licence; bad brakes – losde the licence; driving using mobile telephone – lose the licence; driving with cigarette in mouth*** – lose the licence; driving. eating food – lose the licence.
*** I am no fan of Martin the Crusader, but you cannot smoke & drive. In fact it should be mandatory to have two hands on the steering wheel when not changing gears.
It is time that Cullen realises that the motoring public regards all his penalty systems, speed traps etc. as lightly coloured devices to extract even more money from road users.
Losing the licence has three additional advantages:
1. It reduces the car population, particularly in Dublin, where cars are strangling life;
2. It reduces CO2 emissions. (Less cars, less…);
3. It sends a positive message to Bad Drivers & concentrates on the reasons for so many crashes (faulty vehicles – and how often do you read that the cause was bad brakes?)
Ponder…
And act.