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Old 08-10-2010, 02:03 PM
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How about exposing the sticker to a big magnet, or an electro magnet?

If the Gubment was serious at reducing road fatalities, here are a few things they should look at that seem to escape media imagination:

1. Make it easier and cheaper for young inexperienced drivers to get in newer/safer cars.

2. Compulsory and bi-annual safety/roadworthy inspections on older cars - 10 years or more - similar to MOT inspections in the UK. Get unsafe and unmaintained cars off the road.

3. Re-assess ALL road users at least once every 5 years,be it theory or practical,regardless of age.

4. Make it HARDER to gain a drivers licence, and increase the amount of time drivers must spend with a qualified instructor.

5. Introduce compulsory driver training that will prepare new drivers for night driving, bad weather, defensive driving, emergency braking etc.

6. Have stricter penalties on repeat traffic and drink driving offenders

7. Have a greater police presence on the road, they are no good to anyone hiding behind bushes on the highway with radar guns.

All of these suggestions WILL save lives, but all will cost money to implement. I guess none could be seen as revenue raisers, and perhaps why these suggestions haven't been looked at in the past.

Speed never killed anyone - its the inability to Stop that gets you...
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