Contrast the reports into rail crashes, impartial, non judgemental, and published with a list of learning points and recommended (ie 'almost mandated'). Reports by Police and insurers into road crashes are not published, and have a pretext of allocating blame & liabilities, and do not clearly list learning points and recommendations (almost mandatory for action).
Words fail - driver cuts corner hits and kills cyclist "He came out of nowhere" - pardon me but what would you normally expect driving on the wrong side of the road other than traffic coming towards you?
Then the Police report noted that 50% of drivers cut the corner - and everyone leaves it as that. Where is the roads authority's delivery of their statutory duty for providing a safe road for all users? Why aren't the Police and Coroner making a recommendation for changing the road design - even something as simple as a traffic island to stop drivers cutting the corner?
Clearly with 50% of drivers delivering a hazard with potentially fatal results every time someone is coming the other way... remove the hazard and block the ability to cut the corner.
Just an example but some of the cycling money might be well spent on proper crash investigatons
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