Sense BC’s Mission:
“End Policing For Profit. Smart Laws. Better Driving. Safe Roads”
Sense BC is a road safety organistion based in British Columbia, Canada. The letters stand for ‘Safety by Education Not Speed Enforcement’.
This sentiment aligns exactly with the ‘Five Reforms’ of our ‘Campaign For Safer Roads Through Better Driving’ and so we find ourselves in full agreement with everything that is said on the Sense BC website. www.sense.bc.ca/
This website is a mine of useful information and includes two compelling videos – one challenging the “Speed Kills” mantra and the other on the misuse of crash statistics which are entirely applicable to UK driving scenarios. (the latter video can be found within the ‘Lies Damn Lies And Statistics’ tab inder the Senedd Election 2026 page.)
A ‘One Size Fits All’ Approach Undermines Road Safety And Policing By Consent
Although now somewhat radical in terms of how policing has evolved in the UK because of Tony Blair, we particularly agree Sense BC’s statement that:
“The Reasonable and Safe Actions Of The Majority Of Drivers Are Legal”
My own conceptualisation of driving ability is illustated by the Normal Distribution or Bell Curve shown below.
Under this model the majority of drivers, 75% in fact, meet or exceed expectations in terms their standard of driving. Their actions are resonable and generally safe and should therefore not attract punishment.
About 15% of drivers are below expectations despite having undergone driver training and passed a DVSA approved driving test. Where the standard of driving of these drivers falls short but they have the right attitude they will appreciate help to become better drivers. In this case the role of the Police and the State is to help them in their aspriations to become better drivers and certainly not to punish them!
Punishment should be reserved for the bottom 10% of drivers who are the true menace on the roads because of their wilfully dangerous actions eg driving under the infuence of drink or drugs, driving whilst discqualifed or in the course of commiting a crime etc. Such rogue driver etxwhich require immediate remedial action by the police and courts including a period of disqualification from to driving to protect other road users and themselves from them
Instead what the State has done is implement a “one size fits all” approach to punish all drivers who make human errors and technical transgressions when 90% of peoples actions are still reasonable and safe. I call this tyranny and it shoukd not be allowed in a civilised society.
Sensible Speed Limit Setting And Sensible Law Enforcement
As we saw earlier, the mantra “Speed Kills” is a safety scare that costs lives. This below video makes the point that speed limits should be set by qualified road engineers – not polictician -so that 85% of drivers – the safe and reasonable majority -comply with them.
Where speed limits have been set unreasonably low for ideologican resons as in the blanket 20mph speedc restrictions in Wales, drivers have cottoned on to this being just a money-making exercise that has nothing to do with safety. No wonder they feel a sense of outrage and injustice.
WE ARE NOT STUPID SO DON’T INFANTILISE US
How Should Speed Limits Be Set?
“Sense BC supports speed limits that reflect the UPPER limit of SAFE travel speeds to ensure the reasonable and safe actions of the majority of drivers are legal.
They are advocates for laws and enforcement designed to improve safety, traffic flow and efficiency and reject legislation and/or enforcement which covertly or overtly robs motorists. Good laws should be based on science, and not politics”.
Our Five Reforms For Safer Roads Through Better Driving
These Reforms enapsulate the wisdom which Sense BC espouses, and if adopted by the Welsh Government in 2026 will restore sanity and consensus to a situation which is now hopelessly adrift. They will achieve this by:
- Restoring Reasonable DiscretionTo Enforcement And Prosecution Decisions
- Putting Thinking Skills At The Heart of Driver Training and Licensing
- Reinstating Road Traffic Patrols Which Blair Sacrificed On The Alter of Technocracy
- Restoring Sensible Speed Limit Setting To Be Carried Out by Engineers, Not Politicans, Using Time-Honoured Principles
- Engaging Communites To Help To Create a National Culture of Safer Driving
These policies are honest and straightforward measures to be implemented as a package. They are driven by rationality and common sense, not woke ideology.