Posted in helmets, seat belts on October 16th, 2009 7 Comments »
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To Robert Gifford
Executive Director, The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety
Dear Rob
Failing a response, I propose to draw this one-sided correspondence to a close. I believe that I have established:
a. that the claim that seat belts have saved 60000 lives since the implementation [...]
Posted in helmets, seat belts on September 30th, 2009 4 Comments »
To Robert Gifford
Executive Director, The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety
Dear Rob
I’m sorry but I must persist. The power and endurance of the myth that PACTS and RoSPA have built around the seat belt law takes a lot of deconstructing. So long as belief in the efficacy of the law persists it will continue to [...]
To Robert Gifford
Executive Director, The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety
Dear Rob
This claim made over a year ago is still on the PACTS website:
“On the 31st January 2008, the 25th anniversary of the law change which made front seatbelt wearing compulsory was celebrated. PACTS itself was set up by Barry Sheerman MP [...]