{"id":6461,"date":"2011-07-23T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2011-07-23T21:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T21:08:25","slug":"confused-well-this-lot-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6461","title":{"rendered":"Confused? Well, This Lot Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span style=\"color: #800000\">potentially very informative article in the Leighton Buzzard Observer is marred by stupid comments by someone who likes to think they have authority. They don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The article starts out with some statistics, showing how compliance with urban speed limits is improving and pedestrian fatalities are falling (data covering 2003-present). So far, so good.<\/p>\n<p>But then, IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) gets involved and the focus shifts somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>Bearing in mind that the statistics show that fatalities are falling, IAM says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">In the UK, between two-thirds and three-quarters of fatalities occur on rural roads, yet driving on rural roads still isn\u2019t a mandatory part of the basic driving test.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Most young drivers get plenty of exposure to urban hazards but often their first experience of a rural road comes after the test when they are on their own. This is unacceptable. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if 10,000 people are killed, or only 10. Three quarters remains three quarters as a statistic, and it reflects the relative safety of rural roads. Nothing will alter the fact that rural roads contain more hazards &#8211; other than filling them all in, or converting them all to A roads and straightening them.<\/p>\n<p>And as for rural roads being mandatory on the test&#8230; how? Many test centres and cities have no rural routes within 40 minutes&#8217; drive, so how would they do it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying rural roads shouldn&#8217;t be covered where possible (and some Nottingham routes do contain such roads), but demanding that they be mandatory? Someone is out of touch with reality again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A potentially very informative article in the Leighton Buzzard Observer is marred by stupid comments by someone who likes to think they have authority. They don&#8217;t. The article starts out with some statistics, showing how compliance with urban speed limits is improving and pedestrian fatalities are falling (data covering 2003-present). So far, so good. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}