The Argus campaign to highlight issues relating to dangerous driving and create a memorial to PC Jeff Tooley was seriously undermined by Derek Jameson's column (Argus, July 4).
While other articles in that day's newspaper drew attention to the number of deaths on Kingsway in recent years, Mr Jameson expressed his indignation about the forthcoming police crackdown on speeding.
As someone with considerable experience of working within the criminal justice system, I am used to people rationalising their anti-social behaviour and minimising its significance. Mr Jameson would appear to be no exception.
Despite having been, in his own words, nicked three times for exceeding 30mph on Kingsway, he still regards himself as an ordinary law-abiding driver.
The words offender and persistent come to mind.
Does he not know, as the Argus editorial pointed out, that a child hit by a car travelling at 35mph is twice as likely to die as a child bit by a vehicle doing 30mph? It is one thing to be ignorant of the dangers of speeding, but it is quite another to abuse one's position as a newspaper columnist by encouraging other drivers to feel vindicated in driving irresponsibly.
Mr Jameson, you should be ashamed.
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