A dreadful loss and it makes me angry that the accident happened. Craig Whitalls driving history leads us to blame this accident on drug use and or disregard for the road rules and the law. Craig it would seem had a poor record in both. However, at this point we don't know if either was the cause of this accident. Its possible that the cause was something that could have happened to any one of us.

Following our publication last week of part of a chapter from a new book on the dangers of scare stories by Christopher Booker and Richard North, all-purpose ecomentalist George Monbiot this week accused the authors of "intellectual dishonesty" and of "ignoring inconvenient facts".

Here, then, are some more facts, which Mr Monbiot may or may not regard as inconvenient. Based on its first survey of the causes of accidents (in 2005), the Department for Transport (DfT) has revealed that exceeding the speed limit is a factor in only two per cent of injury crashes involving drivers over the age of 25. For younger drivers, aged 17-25, the percentage is six per cent, and for the youngest, aged 17-19, it is eight per cent. 

Travelling too fast for the conditions, rather than exceeding the legal speed limit, is a factor in five, 11 and 14 per cent of crashes respectively. For full details see section 2.5 of the memorandum at www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/
cmselect/cmtran/355/7032102.htm

This is not the first time the DfT has disproved its own assertion (over many years) that speeding causes a third of all road accidents; in September last year it was forced to publish figures showing that only five per cent of road accidents involve a vehicles exceeding the speed limit. 

Telegraph  19 Jan 2018

It’s time we stopped wasting taxpayers money on using police as revenue collectors and start using them to lock away for a very long time the real perpetuators of death on our roads . The repeat offending unlicensed drivers...