ILLUSTRATION: PAUL RYDING
Life has taken a strange turn when someone like me can type the words ‘I wish there were more police cars on the road in 2023’. But I do wish exactly that.
Speed cameras have left a strange legacy in the UK. Their influence on reducing road fatalities is statistically undeniable, but only if you agree that the most common factor in all road deaths is speed. That remains a contentious issue and one I’m not going to debate here.
What I find incredibly sad is the wasted years since the introduction of speed cameras in the early Nineties. Driving standards are clearly at their worst since records began – ignore the spreadsheets and just open your eyes to observe the mayhem out there. It’s hard to decipher between those who simply don’t care about driving and those who have never really been taught how to.