In response to the report on Sussex road deaths (February 18), roads do not kill. It is the people that drive on them that kill.
The AA report underwrites the UK's culture of blaming everything but the driver, yet it is driver error that is responsible for the vast majority of Britain's 3,500 road deaths and 320,000 injuries.
Yet a time when Government targets have been set to halve child casualties and reduce all road casualties by 40 per cent in places such as London, road policing is being cut in response to the panic of mobile phone crime.
We need to get things in perspective. Police on the streets deter street crime and police on the roads deter road crime.
Perhaps we will still have our mobile phones with these new policies - but at what cost?
-Zoe Stowe, Chairwoman, RoadPeace
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