Originally Posted by
Justin Aerial:
“Fatal accidents might be only a small percentage of the total but, as I`m sure any traffic officer who has to inform the families would agree, they`re by far the most significant.
Two straight questions for you, if you please.
We`ll skirt the question of if speeding is bad driving and just ask this : are you disagreeing that German cars are driven faster (certainly on the motorway) than non German cars ? If so, how do you explain these statistics ?
Second question, if you`re saying German cars are not driven any worse than non German cars, why is it that approx. 50% of the really bad driving is in German cars, yet they only make up 20 to 25% of cars on the roads ?
Just one more thing, is this Audi being driven badly ? (Were I still doing my study it would make it into the list......) :”
They are not statistics that mean anything at all.
As for informing families of deaths, I have no idea what you mean. I've done that job many times, and the reasons are wide and varied. Speed does not make it any worse, and is not the most common factor. I've worked as a Coroners Officer, and attended many fatal accidents, and there was never any suggestion that German cars being driven badly was a higher factor than anything else.
You clearly have a beef with these cars, and are on the look out for them. How many do you actually see on the road every day, and how many of them are being driven properly, or dont you notice that?
I see bad driving all the time, and because of my history, I'm looking out for it more than some I suppose, and I see it from all manner of vehicles, and the common factor is people, not makes of car.
As for speeding alone being bad driving, we'll not skirt it, because it isn't, if done properly. Exceeding the speed limit is an absolute offence, but that doesn't automatically make it careless, or dangerous. I was taught to drive at high speed, and could do so without it being dangerous.
If someone overtakes you on the motorway at 80mph, that doesn't make them a bad driver, unless other factors come into play that make it dangerous.