Thursday 8 November 2012

Freedom vs personal choice vs road safety


Whatever kind of trailer you’re towing, Safe T Signs mean Safe TowingBe seen and be safe when you emerge from junctions or roundabouts, and when you are towing in the dark.

Buy Safe T Signs from our website here:  http://www.safetowing.co.uk/buy-now.htm



Episode 2 of the BBC’s “How Safe are Britain’s Roads?” programme last night was very thought provoking.


(Episode 1 was also worth seeing).


As well as demonstrating what we all already know about the dangers of mobile phones and alcohol while driving, they also touched on the age old debate of men vs women, who is safer and youth vs age, who is more dangerous.

The answer wasn’t about which group, but came down to individuals and their propensity for risk.

There were also some wonderful quotes from the various contributors to the programme:

“… we’re the worst people to assess our own driving ability”

“… there is no such thing as an accident, everything has a cause…”

“… humans are the biggest problem…”

“… but as we all know, humans are often reluctant to take the safest course…”

On a slightly different tack, I was speaking to a firm of insurance brokers earlier this week about Safe T-Signs (see information on the right hand side of the page).  I said a lot of people really got it – saw the point, saw how they could contribute to making towing safer.  But there were a hard core of people who said “why would I use them, that’s why I have insurance?”

She said “I understand totally what you say.  We hear it all the time, people who don’t see why they should have insurance, or else only take it reluctantly”.

Despite the evidence, too many drivers think accidents will never happen to them.  They don’t think about the consequences for them and for other people.  It’s not because of the people who die as a result of road accidents that we need insurance; it’s because of the people who survive and whose lives will never be the same again.

We owe it to other people to do everything we can to be safe.

See our website:

http://www.safetowing.co.uk/index.htm
 


Whatever kind of trailer you’re towing, Safe T Signs mean Safe TowingBe seen and be safe when you emerge from junctions or roundabouts, and when you are towing in the dark.

Buy Safe T Signs from our website here:  http://www.safetowing.co.uk/buy-now.htm

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