The late Dr Geoff Luxford, a chartered engineer, managed to say in a few short paragraphs back in 2010 what reasonable people today would still recognise as eminently sensible.

Like JJ Leeming, Dr Luxford testifies to the preventive value of engineering solutions over the blanket practice of punishing drivers

That our road safety philosophy has drifted so far away from his speaks volumes about how well it has been infiltrated by speed kills zealots.

A copy of his paper can be found here….