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This isnt true though Sofa Spud the majority of what Brake preach is 'dont drive a car' and some of their 'statistics' are blatantly false. I am in favour of safer roads but i am not in favour of a belief that driving at 10mph on the M32 "wasnt causing any danger."
Im in favour of a common sense approach with real science and real facts, not the hysterical rantings of a left wing communistical charity which aims to limit free movement by mangling fact and using selective statistics.
Saying if i dont support Brake i must therefore not support road safety is nonsense. I do not buy into the one extreme or the other culture, i want safe roads as much as anyone i just dont think constant enforcement, bans, regulations and lower speed limits are the way to do it.
Proper scientists and analysts can debunk their nonsense easily. The problem is they do not have a balanced view, you either agree with them 100% or you must be a speeding menace.
This page counters some of the untruths commonly used by propagandists opposed to speed cameras, and includes, at the end, links to academic papers proving the effectiveness of speed cameras.
It didnt, it had a few correlations but no evidence of cause. Propagandists indeed.
A pedestrian hit by a large 4x4 is more than twice as likely to be killed than if they were hit by a normal sized car.
Even more likely to be killed in a collision with a Bus but Buses are never mentioned on Brake's website. And motorcyclists only get one page, its all about cars.
There are more than 31 million vehicles on the road in Britain, 84% of which are cars. Each car is on average responsible for emissions of 4.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, a major contributor to global warming
Indeed, 0.004% of Global manmade Emissions, to be exact. This was another justification for banning 4x4s on 'road safety' grounds.
4x4s are so damaging to the environment they should feature warnings similar to those on cigarette packets
Cobblers.
Maximum engine capacity is limited to within the maximum speed limit
So every car driving at full revs at full pace, wearing the engine out and blowing cars up within a year. Fantastic. Does anyone at Brake have mechanical knowledge or qualifications?
There should be restrictions on road use, when sustainable, safer transport options are accessible
So they believe if i could get a Train to where i want to go, i shouldnt be allowed to drive there. You still think they want 'safe roads' or empty roads?
New drivers should be banned from carrying passengers other than their own family members.
So its ok to wipe your family out in a crash with an oil tanker but nobody else?
You are 10,000 times more likely to die or be injured in a car journey than on a plane
This is true, but while we're at it lets get some apples and some oranges...
In 2007 (the latest year for which statistics are available) 2,946 people were killed on Britain's roads.
Statistics are available for 2008, 2009 and 2010 but Brake have neglected to publish them because they show a large fall. Road deaths were just over 1800 in 2010. Selective statistics.
Their page entitled 'How likely am i to die on the road compared to other forms of Transport' lists 'road accidents' and Plane crashes only. This is very selective as they dont split the stats up to tell us more detail, i dont know how many people were hit by a Bus by reading their page, for example.
Brake advocates speed cameras on all roads, because all roads have speed limits.
Mr Orwell warned us of this lot.
Political concerns about the civil liberties of drivers are wrong-minded, and governments that are opposed to speed cameras are wrong minded.
So we're wrong then? No reasoning, no discussion, no debate? Well thats that then.
Some anti-camera organisations have argued that cameras are a money-raising initiative and not a safety initiative.
So they admit they're a pro-camera organisation then? At least we've cleared that up. Despite the fact on their website Brake also claim the scrapping of camera's will 'result in the loss of much needed revenue.' Hmmmmm.
Its this simplistic view of safe = slow and their suggestions of a minimum £1000 fine for breaking the speed limit even by 1mph in every circumstance and 6 points is just nonsense. Its a left wing anti-car movement which uses selective stats, they miss out stats and studies which dont support their argument, still hang onto seriously out of date ones which once did support their argument and want every road to have a speed camera on it in the belief speed is the cause of every single accident, when in fact it was present in only 5% of accidents last year. Theres 50,000 more examples i can give of their idiocy but i dont have all weekend but it seems like nobody at Brake drives a car, has any qualifications to an opinion on such matters or anything.
The rare occasion they do talk about uninsured drivers and drug driving their solution is always technology or surveillance based like 'fingerprinting systems on all cars to only allow the insured driver in' if we implimented all of their ideas, like a speed camera on every road and this rubbish it'd cost BILLIONS absolutely BILLIONS. Their approach is so over complicated its untrue.
Im sorry i just cannot get on board with such brainwashing, the charity was founded in good faith, but they no longer operate in such a manner.
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