Road deaths: where’s the action?
Those of us who have been touched by the harrowing personal consequences of these deaths have had their ineffable grief and pain amplified with every published road death and injury.
Culturally we are in love with our cars. Prof James Wickham’s working paper entitled ‘Public Transport and Urban Citizenship’ (June, ‘04) revealed that in a study of 50 categories of ‘critical moments’ in the life history of UK adolescents, none involved politics, but two involved cars (‘passing driving test’ and ‘getting a car’).
