Pedestrian safety will be the focus of the second UN Global Road Safety Week (6–12 May 2013).
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Pedestrian safety will be the focus of the second UN Global Road Safety Week (6–12 May 2013).
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Once again it seems someone didn’t take the time to carefully read what has been stated. There is plenty of hard evidence about the benefits of pedestrian training, especially through early years and into Primary School (I will state again…KERBCRAFT). Just because I haven’t produced a website calling everyone who doesn’t agree with me a ‘fanatic’, doesn’t discredit the research of others.
This is perhaps evidence of some people being eternal ‘nay sayers’.
Bob
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Once again it seems (in comments) a liking for vague, non-specific, unquantified feel-good ideas, but a strong dislike of hard evidence. Surely it should be the other way around?
Is this another example of what one writer called “cognitive dissonance” but I have long recognised as the “My mind is made up, please do not confuse me with the facts” syndrome?
Idris Francis
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I guess the way forward is to highlight the vulnerability of pedestrians during the Global Road Safety Week and during the rest of the year through the dedicated Road Safety Staff and the projects they undertake……
That comes through early years pedestrian training programmes and later primary school work focussing on attitude and risk.
Just because you are in a 20mph zone or you are in a 30mph zone and the driver is or isn’t speeding, doesn’t mean a pedestrian is not responsible for themselves. That could be taught when their used to be Road Safety Teams in Local Authorities (kerbcraft etc), but I doubt you will get many children or teenagers reading the finer points of a report on safety cameras or 20mph schemes.
Bob
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My research touches on pedestrian casualties.
I have found that 2% of pedestrians killed or seriously injured involved a car exceeding a speed limit. Obviously that means that 98% were killed or seriously injured when drivers were at or within the speed limit (see 1.7).
http://speedcamerareport.co.uk/01_speeding.htm
I have also found that “Pedestrian failed to look properly” is the 5th contributory factor in KSI collisions at 15.2%. That is surely very surprising. Remember that’s 15.2% of ALL collisions, not just those that involve pedestrians (see figure 10.1).
http://speedcamerareport.co.uk/10_effects_of_cameras.htm
And we also see very worrying results for pedestrian injuries in areas where speed limits are reduced to 20mph, although that isn’t on my website.
So what’s the way forward?
Dave Finney – Slough
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