This column essentially provides supporting evidence for what has already been said by Sense BC and others in previous columns.

It pulls together people and organisations who had agency in road safety matters back in the day before the current ideological rot set in and ‘the system’ conspired to cancel them.

There is an immense amount of knowledge, wisdom and reasonableness that these titans of road safety can offer, hence these pages to pay tribute to their contribution and seek to keep their wise insights alive.

These people were the adults in the room. They had intimate experiential and theoretical knowledge of what worked and didnt work covering all three Es of road safety, Engineering, Engineering and Enforcement.

Sadly much of this knowledge seems to have been swept aside or cancelled by the Road Safety Industrial Complex pursuing their own elite agendas far removed from what people already knew to be safe and reasonable.

We lose sight of these inconvenient truths at our peril. Because certain sections of the establishment with competing agendas might not like what they have to say should nowadays make us even more interested in their testimonies!

The people and organisations in question are:

Paul Garvin, former Chief Constable of Durham who would not allow speed cameras in his area preferring to stick to traditional roads policing methods that worked and which the public fully supported.

Dr Geoff Luxford, an engineer whose activism in the field of speed limit setting and enforcement

John Joseph Leeming another engineer whose books ‘Road Accidents – Prevent or Punish? and ‘Do Speed Limits Work? looked at these topic from multiple perspectives. His paper ‘The Law Is Killing 3000 people a year’ asserts that the law, not the motorist, is to blame for accidents.

Stephen Haley

Graham Fryer

Paul Smith

Idris Francis

Lord Montague of Beaulieu