The topic grows !
When did the ‘speed kills’ slogan start being used…any idea’s ?
I dont recall hearing it back in the 70’s or even the 80’s and why is it relevant now when it wasnt then.
If you go back just over a hundred years or so, when the first mechanically propelled vehicles where being taken out and tried, it was thought that if a human went faster than they could run, then they must surely suffocate and die. But we didnt.
Yes, vehicles are capable of being driven faster and easier than even 10 years ago but with the general increase in number of vehicle’s on our current road infrastructure, I dont think that the average speed has increased by such an amount that we need to be told its dangerous every half hour, probably the opposite in fact.
You dont even need statistics to prove that with the current increasing population levels, there will be be more deaths simply because there will be more people driving !. More people driving = greater chance of a prang, its inevitable.
Smoking kills more people per day than traffic related incidents, but we dont get bombarded with ‘smoking kills’ adverts on the radio and telly. Fishing is potentially dangerous with the possibility of drowning, electrocution from overhead power cables, anaphylactic shock from insect stings, but I havent seen one advert in the press proudly informing me that its dangerous and I should do something about it
What it probably boils down to is some-one has clicked that there is a ‘captive audience’ out there in the real world and that wouldnt it be a good idea to target vehicle owners/drivers cos they cant escape, and its a jolly good pat on the back for an original idea.
Ditto for roadside camera’s, congestion charges, its rife !
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