Fourteen killed in Service vehicles
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AS THE OFFICER responsible for directing road safety activities in the Army, I hope you will allow me to correct an inaccuracy in the article "Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense — Army Corps Defence" (CMAugust 14). The statistics quoted in the final paragraph relate to the Army as a whole and not just to the Royal Corps of Transport.
In the year ended March 31, 1982, the Army worldwide lost 14 men killed in traffic accidents in Service vehicles, of which five were members of the ACT. The figure "80" you quoted is the worldwide yearly total of Army fatalities through all traffic accidents. Sadly the majority of these are killed in or on their own, privately owned, vehicles when off duty.
The figure of two accidents per 100,000 miles relates to the Army as a whole in the United Kingdom and takes account of all traffic accidents to its wheeled vehicles. These are taken from an ADP Traffic Accident Analysis System (TAAS) which records all accidents for all three Services, however slight, many of which are of such a nature that civilian drivers would not be required to report them. The above accident rate shows a reduction from the 1975 figure of four accidents per 100,000 miles. As before this figure is based on all accidents to Army wheeled vehicles in the United Kingdom.
R. G. HARMER, Brigadier Director Transport Operations Logistic Executive (Army) Andover, Hants