Panorama really struggles sometimes ... The format hit a brick wall particularly hard this week when Richard Bilton told us smart motorways are horrifically dangerous, many people have died on them, they're a money saving swizz and it's like playing Russian Roulette driving on one ...
The problem is not that any of these things are untrue, it's that they obviously are to the point of being almost unarguable propositions. Therefore there's nowhere to go except more pictures of people who've died in crashes and X-rays of broken backs ...
Chris Ames (late of the Iraq Inquiry Digest and now editor of Highway magazine) turned up to churn out more grim statistics but a series of funerals does not a narrative arc make. Perhaps it shouldn't be this way but it is so. To be fair not everyone died, some were left disabled for life but there's still not much you can say except...
It's odd how in towns everyone's supposed to drive at 20 in an attempt to reduce the number of deaths as safety is viewed as more important than speed..... Whilst on the motorway it seems the reverse is true ... In an obsession with making more people move faster safety has been thrown under the bus by abolishing the hard shoulder even though that's an idea that's obviously dumb...
How that work?
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