Chief Constable of Durham, Paul Garvin. The Daily Telegraph, 7th December 2003 wrote:
I actually believe in casualty reduction and trying to make the roads safer but, having looked at the accident statistics in this area, we find that if you break down the 1,900 collisions we have each year only three per cent involve cars that are exceeding the speed limit. Just 60 accidents per year involve vehicles exceeding the speed limit.
OK, he said 3%. the DfT reckon it's 5%, but either way it's one hell of a lot less than the 33.3% that's been touted as gospel by the "speed kills!" lobby.
Paul Garvin wrote:
You then need to look at causes of these 60 accidents. Speed may be a factor in the background but the actual cause of the accident invariably is drink-driving or drug-driving. Drug-taking is becoming more of a problem. In 40 per cent of fatal road accidents in this area one or more of the people involved have drugs in their system.
Which is a further analysis that I'd like to see done on the "exceeding the speed limit" figures. I suppose that it's very unlikely to happen as it is in direct opposition to the official dogma.
"In Gear"... Watch out mate! The other police areas are going to be "headhunting" your lads to make up their shortfalls!
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