Giant leaps forward in patient care as well, fewer people die following RTCs than eighty years ago because medical advances have been tremendous. In terms of vehicle developments almost all advances have been to externalise the risk, transpose the danger to outside the vehicle. Eighty years ago there were no crumple zones, seatbelts, airbags, etc etc. so road deaths fall because vehicle occupants are swaddled and cosseted, deaths outside the vehicle see no such reduction.
The law also hasn't caught up in technological advances. We know that chatting on a mobile impairs driving the same as being drunk, yet a driver chatting on a mobile can fail to notice a cyclist alongside, kill them, and get charged with nothing., like with Svetlana Tereschenko, or walk free from court, like the Mary Bowers case.
The Beeb reporting has been awful, yesterday they showed a cyclist getting punched and didn't bother explaining what happened, to day they banged on about earphones. Trivialities. Slapdash reporting that is not constructive or honest.
