Too express ?
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Of all the newspaper comment that has been aroused by the recent spate of serious accidents involving coaches, there is one speculation which I think touches a genuine cause for complaint—the speed of these vehicles on the motorway. I've no evidence to suggest that speed in itself had anything to do with this year's crop of crashes, and I dare say that the majority of express service coaches, both on and off motorways, are driven within the speed limits and with due care. But from personal experience I know that there are some which are driven over the limit on Ml, for instance.
I don't exactly hang about on motorways myself, and I I drive a car which is geared for go, but on several occasions in the past year I've been " bulldozed " out of the fast lane by an express service coach. And on other occasions when travelling in the centre lane at around the legal limit I've been overtaken by a coach whose slipstream has rocked the car.
Hating sneakiness and the cloak of the informer, I've bitten back my temptation to note the number and drop a line to NBC (for they are usually service coaches, seldom touring vehicles, that I've seen at these speeds). In future I think I may overcome my scruples.
Does NBC, I wonder, have its own silent checks on the speed of its coaches? With all those bridges and modern technology it would be easy. The alternative, about which the industry has been squealing so, is the tachograph. . . .
Do I need to point the moral any more clearly?