an interesting statistic in ...

11 September 2001

an interesting statistic in an article about speed cameras and the like:

almost half of adult pedestrians killed on UK roads have been drinking so we shouldn’t be drinking and walking either. i suppose we shouldn’t be drinking and eating, or drinking and sleeping either… ;-) the article also points out one of my favourite idiotic campaign slogan problems:

the logical conclusion of the “Speed Kills” argument, namely that all movement is dangerous