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The organisers stress that the petition isn’t a call for an open licence to drive recklessly but a call for a more sensible and more genuine approach to the important issue of road safety, which as we know concerns far more than just whether or not the speed limit is exceeded.
One Third Lie
For some time now the official line to justify the increasing number and type of speed cameras is that speed is the major factor in ‘one third’ of accidents, yet a number of separate OFFICIAL studies actually list excess speed as the primary cause in less than 10% of road accidents. This means that in reality, current ‘safety’ policy is effectively failing to address the true cause of over 90% of road accidents.
This is borne out by the fact that the massive rise in the number of motorists being convicted of speeding every year (now running at around the two million mark) due to the use of speed cameras has not resulted in a correspondingly massive drop in the number of accidents. In fact there have been several instances in which road accidents have actually INCREASED following the introduction of cameras.
Criminalising the Population
What the massive rise in speeding convictions has done however, besides criminalising large numbers of otherwise honest, law abiding citizens, is to enrich official coffers to the tune of over £100 million a year at the expense of Britain’s already hard-pressed motorists. Furthermore, several high-ranking police officers and others have stated that they want this figure massively increased.
Prompted by growing public resentment of this situation, S.A.F.E.R. is intended to give the public an organised and tangible method of both voicing their disapproval of the situation and demanding that it be changed.
Make Your Point
Petition forms can be downloaded from the web site www.saferroads.co.uk although the site still requires a few tweaks before it’s fully ready for the official launch on Monday. By that time there should also be an e-mail available to enable the petition to be promoted by ‘viral marketing’.
S.A.F.E.R’s web site also has a public forum, an on-line survey and links to information that shows just how badly the authorities have been trying to pull the wool over the British public’s eyes with regard to road safety and the use of speed cameras.
With proposals for even more speed cameras and even more insidious means of persecuting motorists who exceed the speed limit (such as the ‘spy in the cab’ chip) it’s imperative that we take action NOW before it’s too late.
As for whether or not the general public is prepared to take action, the coming weeks will tell…
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Please fill out the petition and send it off. Make sure all your work colleagues, families etc. know about it too.
