Road Collision Investigation Branch
Road safety: something we should all pay more attention to, perhaps?
I fell over this by accident:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/creating-a-road-collision-investigation-branch-rcib
You may be a better-informed reader and have already seen it.
Effectively, the Government has noticed that road traffic collisions tend to go uninvestigated except in so far as required for criminal prosecutions, insurance payouts and negligence actions. This creates a rather piecemeal approach that will endeavour to allocate blame (not always very successfully) without considering road safety in the round.
In some cases collisions are made more likely by features of the road. Here’s an example. From this dubious drawing it may look like a standard signal-controlled T-junction.
Who has to stop at the red lights on the far right then?Now it looks tidy until you discover that the pelican on the right that controls traffic vanishing off down East Road is semi-synchronised with the main junction. It will never show red unless the main set of traffic lights for traffic…
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