"Is dangerous cycling a problem" BBC

a while back there was a thread regarding what roads are most scary,
been having several conversations with adults/ people learning to drive,
aparently there are very few instructors who teach changing down through gears anymore, hence the reason theres so many people approaching give way junctions at 30 and dropping the clutch banging on brake, scaring the shit out of anyone on the main road and especially bikes,
you have to be going speed limit so as when you reach the next queue of nodders like yourself in a car youve at least got to the queue,

daft? aka---dept for transport---, you fucking bet, right to the top

My dad taught me to double de-clutch through the box as you slowed.

My driving instructor on the other hand was dead set against that- slow with the brakes then choose the gear appropriate to the road speed and conditions when you come off the brakes was his position.

The issue with my dads advice I suppose being that it is perfectly possible to slow considerably by going down through the box- without showing brake lights as you are not using them.

You are, in effect, braking using engine compression rather than the braking system of the vehicle.

However- none of this explains shitty driving where people fail to slow down and/or stop at a junction.