Road safety policy, prosecution, even jail, based on sad tales and emotionalism.
We have already covered the fact that road safety policy isn't based on expertise but a mix of profiteering and ideology. The hard nosed profiteers like nothing more than emotional sad tales to boost their turnovers and amply reward ideologically based charities, like BRAKE, to spout their propaganda for them.
Nothing like a sad annual prayer day at a local Cathedral, organised by the local traffic and road safety partnership wallas, for accident victims or their families for the good of the industry image is there?. But all this piety whilst getting well paid on the day, we find most unseemly.
Do now read this amazing item before reading on and see if you spot the big story the Lincolnshire Echo missed:
Did you get the big story missed by The Echo?
Ignoring the fact that no genuine medical condition awaits the outcome of a criminal case before treatment, something The Echo seems to have not noticed, but the big story here is that the driver was innocent! There was no case. Notwithstanding that it had not occurred to The Echo, to simply point this out to this family and leave it at that, they not only published their tale but in doing so, failed to ensure that their readers were told that 'The Justice' being denied, the failure to enjoy 'Their day in court' was all against an innocent man.
Is The Echo anti driver? What about the other innocent driver who has had months of trauma and worry over this? What about journalistic balance and a comment from him? We have tried to achieve some balance ourselves but so far our letter remains unpublished.
But there is a much bigger issue isn't there? What of the police accident investigator who would've had an innocent man jailed had the woman succumbed to her injuries? Is he still practicing? What previous cases rested on his 'expertise'? Isn't that the big story behind this one?
We think so. Any chance of The Echo chasing that aspect now?
