BBC series on road safety

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Yes, the World Service is putting out a genuinely hard-
hitting radio series (I've listened to a couple of
episodes).

Interesting that they feel able to get away with it,
while domestically the BBC tends towards a campaigning
organisation for motorists. Different editorial people
of course, and probably some 'interesting' internal
politics there.

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anonymous coward said:

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From their online quizz:

"Deaths from road traffic injuries account for 2.5% of all
global mortalities."

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coward said:

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Yes, the World Service is putting out a genuinely hard-
hitting radio series (I've listened to a couple of
episodes).

Interesting that they feel able to get away with it,
while domestically the BBC tends towards a campaigning
organisation for motorists. Different editorial people
of course, and probably some 'interesting' internal
politics there.

The biggest difference is that the BBC's domestic services
are paid for out of the licence fee, so are seen as
directly "answerable" to the public. The BBC Worldservice
is funded through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
which of course is still paid for out of our taxes, but in
a less direct way.

Simon M.

Nick Kew said:

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coward said:

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Yes, the World Service is putting out a genuinely hard-
hitting radio series (I've listened to a couple of
episodes).

A few of them are not easy listening if you have doubts
about helmet compulsion, bike lanes or think that lower
speed limits save lives, but its certainly very welcome
in my book. Lots of talk about who benefits from cars V.
who pays the costs, and an interesting 'global view' of
the issues.

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Interesting that they feel able to get away with it,
while domestically the BBC tends towards a campaigning
organisation for motorists. Different editorial people
of course, and probably some 'interesting' internal
politics there.

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From their online quizz:

"Deaths from road traffic injuries account for 2.5% of all
global mortalities."

What is most disturbing is the personal stories that go
behind the statistics. Of course some of those will include
people who 'were the authors of their own misfortune' to
quote an oft used phrase. But most are just the innocent
victims. And what is most disturbing of all is not just that
these _incidents_ (let's not call them 'accidents'😉 occur,
but that they are not treated seriously enough by the
Courts. If there was one consistent theme running through
all the stories, it was the anger of relatives at the
leniency shown to drivers at fault - it seemed that very
often even the fact that their actions had caused death was
scarcely even mentioned, far less any charges or sentencing
appropriate to that fact given. It just really is outrageous
how road deaths are treated so much less seriously than
other actions that amount to manslaughter.

Rich

anonymous coward said:

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I listened to the first of the "Driving Lessons" programmes
today. I'm afraid I found it rather difficult to take
seriously when the presenter interviewed Kermit the Frog
about 15 minutes in.

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Danny Colyer said:

I listened to the first of the "Driving Lessons"
programmes today. I'm afraid I found it rather difficult
to take seriously when the presenter interviewed Kermit
the Frog about 15 minutes in.

Didn't Kermit the Frog used to do university lectures on why
political correctness (as in "motability challenged
chromatically differentiated individual with visual
wotzits"😉 was a Good Thing. As if changing the name of
something would remove any negative understanding from its
meaning, and not make it stand out even more than it did.

- Richard

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As if changing the name of something would remove any
negative understanding from its meaning, and not make it
stand out even more than it did.

Ar. I have a vague memory of Stephen Fry telling of hearing
kids using "Challenged!!!" as a playground insult.

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