Speed awareness and road safety campaigns lost all credibility for me after the t.v. advert showing a car speeding in a town setting and then sliding under braking into a child crossing the road, all depicted in terrifying slow motion.
It was all going so well until one spotted that the Ford Orion's front wheels were locked solid, the tyres smoking with the stress, it's rear wheels still rotating merrily as it ploughed onward.
So, the message was all about speed? It should have been all about disconnected ABS systems and malfunctioning Brake Force Apportioning Valves! It is physically impossible to get a front-wheel drive Ford Orion to do what they were showing, and even my girlfriend saw straight through it.
If they are going to persist with the lie about speed causing accidents then they should explain why we are not ALL dead! Eventually they will realise that better training, heavily discounted insurance for advanced drivers and repeat testing are the only way forward.
Brian (who thinks, with a general election just around the corner, that it is a sure-fire vote winner
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