There is an unusual mood sweeping through some areas of CC, resulting in a desire to change the meaning of words in the English language.
Nobody has said we need to change the meaning of words, that's something you've just plucked out of thin air. This post is offensive trolling, especially after you've been told how upsetting and distressing your bogus claims are.
The causes of many crashes are well known.
We know that there is an increased risk of a collision when drink driving or
speeding are involved. Yet despite two decades of enforcement and education, one in six UK fatal crashes still involves a
drink driver and twice as many fatal crashes involve speeding.
While speeding is on the decrease, half of all drivers admit to
breaking the 30 mph speed limit. Endemic is a more accurate description for speeding than is Accidental.
Fatigue is believed to contribute to 10% of all fatal crashes. Fatigue is a condition that comes on gradually and with clear
warning signs, and cannot be considered unexpected.
In 2001, the British Medical Journal banned the use of the word ‘accident’ to avoid the connotation of unpredictability, since
‘most injuries and their precipitating events are predictable and preventable events’.
Fifteen years ago, leading epidemiologists described the belief that injuries are accidents as ‘the last folklore subscribed to by rational men’.
Why is it an ‘Accident’ when someone dies or is injured on our roads because someone took a
decision to flout our laws, yet Manslaughter or Grievous Bodily Harm in other circumstances?
Rita Taylor, RoadPeace Bristol Group
To see your husband lying dead in a pool of his blood on a public street, yet all he had done was use a
zebra crossing to cross a road . . . to know that the driver then burnt out the car and called someone to
tow away the remains, how can this be deemed an accident?
My husband was killed by a person or persons unknown, as surely as if they had held a gun to his head or
stabbed him with a knife. It was no accident.
Jane
Evans, RoadPeace