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@Greasy_Slag
What makes me mad is the headline news yesterday was an appeal for a change in the driving tests to better educate drivers about driving across rail tracks.
13 accidents 12 deaths in the WHOLE of the UK.
Now take nothing away from the tragedy of those deaths but if you drive across a railtrack, with a train coming..FFS I can’t see how education will help some of those people. Yet more innocent people (in London alone) who when commuting to work and are crushed to death doing as the gvt created cycle lanes tell them (stay on the inside) and it does not make the news.
Sadly the train companies stand to loose a lot of money from the loss of a rail line in an accident, compensation to passengers, driver and victims so it makes it to prime time headline news. If there is no financial loss from these people getting crushed to death no the way to work then their life isn’t as valuable. Isn’t as important.
I think the single biggest button to push in order to get noticed is a massive financial hit on the HGV companies or the councils for poor road layouts. Then it would be perceived as a problem