"THE only real solution is engineering", "bad weather was the main cause of accidents", "speeding was the main cause": three quotes from your article on the increase in accidents (January 21).
Yet we now have better roads than we used to, the winter weather is less severe than it used to be and the roads are cluttered with speed cameras, speed humps etc.
No, as we all know, bad driving is the cause of 99 per cent of accidents. Until we get, as Edmund King suggests, more active traffic policing on the roads, we will continue with the very poor standard of driving that exists at present and consequently further increases in accidents.
As your headline says "cars are lethal in the wrong hands", and until driving standards improve the accident rates will not fall.
John Clark,
York Road,
York.
Updated: 10:30 Friday, January 27, 2006
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