Yep,they're exploiting the grief of poor old confused Claire, the late lamented Paul Smith's partner. She serves as a kind of Denise Bulger, exploited by a callous media.
Poor woman,possibly mentally unstable from her mourning. Spouting dangerous nonsense she doesn't really understand.
Media criticised for misleading coverage of stats showing jump in casualties in 20mph zones
CTC and 20's Plenty for Us say coverage of 24 per cent rise ignored fact there are now more roads with 20mph limit.
In a blog post on the CTC website, its policy co-ordinator Chris Peck pointed out that coverage of the figures failed to take into account any increase in the extent of the road network now covered by 20mph zones; if that has grown by more than 24 per cent, the casualty rate will have actually gone down, he explained.
“Only a few commentators have seen through this nonsense,” he said. “Unfortunately these issues will reoccur as long as the Department for Transport continue to publish data on casualties without regard to the rate of injury per mile, per trip or per hour.
What we do know is the average speed of all drivers appears to have dropped from 27 mph to 17 mph.
The London study puts the enforcement down as the installation of passive speed restraints (aka sleeping policemen). If so they are remarkably effective if a bit of a pain. Did they not do this in Bristol?Average speed dropped by just 1mph in the South Bristol 20mph zone. Without enforcement it is a complete waste of time.