Police drive the message home
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• For the past two weeks the police have been co-ordinating a national motorway safety campaign aimed at educating drivers and increasing their awareness of the dangers involved in long-distance journeys at high speed.
We visited one of the displays on the Ml earlier this week, where the police were displaying the tangled wreckage of cars, vans and trucks involved in high-speed crashes. More than 66% of motorway accidents involve speeding offences, and the General Accident-sponsored campaign aims to drum home the message that drivers should travel at reasonable speeds and leave sufficient room between themselves and other vehicles. The display includes videos explaining the police approach to speed limit enforcement, and an exhibition of cutting equipment used by the emergency services at the scene of mtorway crashes.
A police spokesman says that many drivers have compained that the crash wrecks are "offensive". "We tell them the wrecks are intended to shock," he says.