ONCE again you report the ‘success’ of local policing initiatives (Nearly 200 careless motorists caught in one-day, Echo June 22) with a quote from Chief Inspector Bob Nichols: “Provisional figures show that 115 people have been killed or seriously injured on Dorset’s roads so far this year, compared with 140 during the same period in 2010.”
As I have written before, these figures do not take into account the reported drop in petrol sales (13.5 per cent). Adjusting for this, there is no significant drop in KSI stats at all.
Perhaps next time you interview CI Nichols, you could ask him to comment on this? The roads are not safer and drivers have not changed their attitudes. When will we stop putting a plaster on this gaping wound and pretending it’s worked?
MIKE CHALKLEY, Cowper Road, Bournemouth
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