newswatcher,
My figure of 7% (7.3% to be precise) came from the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL323). The government's figures included such causes as 'aggressive driving'. I don't doubt for a second that this is dangerous but one can drive aggressively at perfectly legal speeds.
Check out
http://www.abd.org.uk/one_third.htm for a more considered viewpoint. Also
http://www.trl.co.uk, which is the source of the report.
Besides, as I'm obviously a criminal who has no thought for anyone else's welfare, how is it that I can take my car back to it's country of manufacture and run it on public roads legally at 150mph all day?
I don't for one second condone dangerous or irresponsible driving. Nor however, do I condone politicians manipulating the facts to their own ends.
I wish people would keep open minds rather than be dragged along by government hype. This is also the reason we went to war in Iraq, but I feel thread creep coming on .......
