Speed Cameras Aren't The Answer
Ashley Brixey - life is precious - Brake the Road Safety Charity
Ashley was killed 2004 aged 20. He was in a car being driven by his friend
His mum Clare tells her story...
Ashley’s friend Richard got into the driving seat - twice over the legal driving limit and with an abusive level of drugs in his system after taking ecstasy.
Richard lost control of the car on a left-hand bend, and the car went up an embankment, through a garden fence and landed upside down in a swimming pool.
A terrible tragedy. Clare Brixey is now campaigning for the retention of Speed Cameras in Wiltshire, using her bereavement as a reason.
She is wrong, old fashioned policing might have caught or prevented her son taking a lift with a prat, a speed camera wouldn't. The diversion away from human policing to using mechanical devices is part of the problem, not the answer.
Comments
"Straws, clutching at" seems to be a popular search from the Civil Service Handbook this year.
Posted by: The Remittance Man | August 23, 2010 9:21 AM
My son is so thick he went into a car with someone high on drin and drugs. Clearly a speed camera would have been just the ticket :) to stop that happening. I am so thick myself, my son inherited it from me, that I believe that a fine landing on the mat will reverse time and bring my son back.
No wonder this civilisation is going down the tubes.
Posted by: Lord T | August 23, 2010 10:20 AM
My son is so thick he went into a car with someone high on drink and drugs. Clearly a speed camera would have been just the ticket :) to stop that happening. I am so thick myself, my son inherited it from me, that I believe that a fine landing on the mat will reverse time and bring my son back.
No wonder this civilisation is going down the tubes.
Posted by: Lord T | August 23, 2010 10:20 AM
My son is so thick he went into a car with someone high on drink and drugs. Clearly a speed camera would have been just the ticket :) to stop that happening. I am so thick myself, my son inherited it from me, that I believe that a fine landing on the mat will reverse time and bring my son back.
No wonder this civilisation is going down the tubes.
Posted by: Lord T | August 23, 2010 10:21 AM
LOL. The system said twice that it had failed to post. I should be supporting this poor woman.
Posted by: Lord T | August 23, 2010 10:23 AM