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Secured loads will prevent accidents
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LEARNING FROM experience is good, but learning from the experience of others can be infinitely better, safer and far less painful.
Some 50 years ago a local bus company was chartered to take national servicemen home at weekends from their Salisbury Plain camps. On one such trip a suitcase insecurely sited behind the driver became dislodged and several of those on board died in the resulting crash.
Around 15 years ago the rear doors of a van inadvertently opened and gas bottles were discharged onto the road surface. Had the necks of the bottles fractured the resulting accident could have had appalling consequences.
Even today it is common to see cars with small animals or huge ghetto blasters lodged on the rear parcel shelf and pickup trucks with loose, unrestrained loads relying solely on friction to keep them in place.
You have published two cases recently where lessons could have been. and still can be, learned (CM 18 August).
It is a sad reflection on modern society that many coroners. magistrates. police and others refer to incidents on the road that have an identifiable and avoidable cause as"accidents-.