OK then.
In the case of drink driving it was very clear from the stats that drivers who had drunk a lot had a much higher chance of having an accident (particularly a serious one) than those that hadn't. Any TRRL tests were able to get a reasonable handle on the impairment.
In speeding it appears from the stats that speeding drivers actually have less accidents that those that don't - ie no causal link has been established.
Hence the two situations are totally different.
Now why drivers who speed should be less accident prone than those who don't I can't say. Just perhaps it might be because they focus on driving not their speedo.
Now I'm NOT going to encourage drivers to speed to make them safer - any more than I am to encourage them to carry loaded guns round Tesco.
But are you going to encourage drivers to focus more on the road than their speedo?
Somehow, I think not...
|
|