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Again, for what?

I'd imagine he thinks that by drawing attention to bad driver behaviour he can improve driving standards to some degree.

Which, in itself, is clearly a good thing. I'm just not convinced he's going about it the most effective way.

Someone seriously injured by a driver every 16 minutes in the UK (and it's increasing).

Quite, and why it's important to highlight and campaign. Like Vine is doing.

Aren't we about the best in the world for road deaths and injuries?

And, according to this: www.brake.org.uk/get-involved/take-action/mybrake/knowledge-centre/uk-road-safety#:~:text=Road%20deaths%20and%20serious%20injuries,close%20to%20pre%2Dpandemic%20levels. It's up from 2021 to 2022 but basically flat otherwise

This is spectacularly good: ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-road-incidents?tab=chart&country=~GBR

No no no, Vine should be doing it Mince's way, whatever the fuck that is.

How is your brother these days?

If you think 5 people a day is 'good' then sure. The amount of press coverage someone getting hit by a cyclist or an e-scooter gets is totally disproportionate to the coverage drivers killing and injuring people gets. I can't think of anything else in society where we just accept that 5 people a day dying is acceptable. Imagine if 2 people a day were dying on the tube what the reaction would be and what would be done about it (except for Ingo celebrating cockneys getting their due comeuppance).

I didn't say it was "good", I said it was "about the best". Driving has an inherent danger associated with it - it's a big heavy thing capable of moving at high speed by fallible humans, I'm afraid some people are going to die and there's a trade off with the benefit of flexible transport. The chart above shows a decline in the number of deaths over the last 40 years that is, frankly, remarkable. Especially once you allow for how many more cars there are on the road nowadays.

Fuck load more people die of heart disease and cancer but we still allow smoking (205 a day: digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-public-health/2021/part-2-mortality) and all measure of other unhealthy things.

For some reason, your post reminded me of This Rowan Atkinson sketch

I don't have time to dig into the stats right now, but I imagine road deaths are down due to the safety features of vehicles increasing (hitting something in a massive SUV is safer for the driver than hitting something in a tiny VW Polo), and average road speeds decreasing due to increased traffic on the roads. Neither of which do much for the safety of the rest of us trying to get about (and in the former make things considerably worse).

I don't have time to dig into the stats right now but I won't let that stand in the way of spouting any old shit that comes into my head.

Such is the way!

Conversely, getting hit by a massive SUV is much worse for a pedestrian or cyclist than a tiny VW Polo and all of that is in those numbers.

Not really clear what you are in favour of. If it's safer roads, then you have to acknowledge the fact they have got miuch safer over the last few decades and give some credit to car manufacturers, drivers and road designers. If you want that to continue, then I don't think anyone is against that depending on what measures you are proposing. If you want to ban cars, then good luck but it's not going to happen.