ROSPA calls for end to British 'wintertime'

Save lives and reduce accidents, urge safety group

Posted: 1 November 2010
by Visordown News

THE ROYAL Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA)  has called for a change in the summer-winter clock system as accident rates are set to make their usual annual increase now the clocks have turned back an hour.

The group claims recent research suggests the extra evening light would save around 80 lives and prevent 212 serious injuries each year. Even though mornings would be darker, road users are less attentive and at more risk in the evenings.

The move is, once again, being put forward in a private member's bill in the House of Commons on December 3, although previous attempts to change the system have been unsuccessful.



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ragnar1
What makes the dark nights worse are the knobs that ride around on high beam blinding road users that use their mirrors, having some silly idea that it helps them be seen, when it's harder for someone to judge where the bike is and the road users that don't use their mirrors won't see them anyway.

Posted: 01/11/2010 at 20:18


Wizbit
Yep and all the new foreign built cars with blinding headlight beams aiming to the right, and then not adjusted until the first MOT 3 years later and thats if they pick up on it.

Posted: 05/11/2010 at 11:44

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