OT. UK Police Accident Causes stats

Bob Hobden · 2006-10-15T17:32:28+00:00

Interesting reading. So exceeding the speed limit causes about the same % of accidents as Emergency Vehicles on call..5%. (with another 12% being caused by driving too fast for the conditions.)So what's all this rubbish about speed cameras significantly cutting accidents when they can only affect 5% of accidents anyway.66% are caused by Driver Error including... 32% caused by failure to look properly, 18% by failure to judge other person's path/speed, Poor turn of manoeuvre 15%, loss of control 14% and sudden breaking 7% all of which cause more "accidents" than speeding.Full report at (in PDF) article at...Bob H.

Oct 15, 2006 42 Replies

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Lee_D 19 years ago

Bob Hobden uttered summat worrerz funny about:

I've clearly had too much pop as re reading the subject had me wondering how in the hell an accident involving the police could actually cause stats.

:-)

Lee D

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William Tasso 19 years ago

oh good - glad it's not just me :)

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Austin Shackles 19 years ago

On or around Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:47:49 +0100, "Lee_D" enlightened us thusly:

I dunno, I read the subject line twice.

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