A SIMPLE SAFETY MESSAGE
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• For the read safety campaign Brake, the standard response to recall notices should be 100,0 every time. Director Mary Williams says: "The amount of recalls is obviously alarming because it means there is a huge number of potentially dangerous vehicles on the road.
"We would prefer that vehicles were produced to a high enough standard in the first place, but if a recall is necessary we urge owners and fleet managers to get them off the road straight away. Recalls need to be taken extremely seriously."
• Why so many recalls a year in any case? Wouldn't it be better, cheaper and safer if the manufacturers got it right first time Almost certainly—but, as Wadmore says, there is no such thing as a perfect vehicle and there never will be.
"It's astonishing that there are a billion development miles in the desert and the arctic before any product is released to the public, and then within six weeks it's broken," he says.
Wadmore predicts that the number of recalls will increase as manufacturers become more and more sensitive to safety issues arid as manufacturers increasingly share more components.