He's just heard of defensive driving!
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THAT arch-publicist, James Tye, director general of the British Safety Council, has rather overreached himself with the claim that the council "is currently introducing into Britain a new concept in road craft called defensive driving." This has been taught and practised under that name for countless years by the police and every organisation concerned with good driving in Britain.
As part of this so-called campaign — which the BSC, apparently unaware of what is established practice in Britain, has imported from Australia and America — James Tye has been painting white crosses on damaged vehicles. "To soften the response of quick-tempered, heavy-weight male drivers" he had been accompanied as bodyguards on his whitewashing sprees by two lissom girls in T-shirts and shorts.
Not surprisingly, the campaign "got off to a sticky start in Birmingham" when the police intervened, apparently under the impression that vandals were at work. It was all part of the summer seasonal silliness and should not be taken seriously.