CORRESPONDENT J M Lowe suggests that an investigation be undertaken as to whether serious accidents involving vehicles and pedestrians are the fault of the driver or of the pedestrian.
He may be interested to know that an investigation undertaken by the Government's Transport Research Laboratory and published in its Report 323 concluded that, in accidents which cause serious injury or death to a pedestrian, pedestrian error is the cause in 84 per cent of cases, driver error in 12 per cent of cases, and other factors (eg poorly maintained roads) are to blame for the remaining four per cent.
Geoffrey Breakell
Hatfield Road
Bolton
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