Monthly Archives: February 2021

Anonymous executioners

Posted on 25th February 2021 by Martin Cassini

Deaths on “smart” motorways – where the hard shoulder is opened for use at 70mph – reached their highest level in 2019. Article here. The destruction is completely avoidable. One obvious solution is to open the lanes on straight stretches … Continue reading →

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Manslaughter charges at last?

Posted on 11th February 2021 by Martin Cassini

In an earlier post I wrote that pigs would fly before Highways England faced manslaughter charges for opening hard shoulders to motorway traffic without proper precautions. It’s promising that South Yorkshire coroner, Nicola Mundy, is referring the case of Nargis … Continue reading →

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Them and Us

Posted on 11th February 2021 by Martin Cassini

A pensioner in Christchurch, Dorset, painted a zebra crossing so he and his disabled wife could cross a busy road. The council fined him for criminal damage. I kid you not. In the absence of a bridge or flyover, road-users … Continue reading →

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Admission

Posted on 4th February 2021 by Martin Cassini

Use of motorway hard shoulders without safeguards was “entirely wrong”, admitted Grant Shapps. Article here. Are corporate manslaughter charges being brought? When pigs fly. Thirty-eight (38) avoidable deaths later and untold trauma to survivors, the anonymous perpetrators of the current … Continue reading →

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