Sunday
Feb082009
Richard Hammond for PM!
Sunday, February 8, 2009 "I have a plan to make Britain's roads safer," says Top Gear's Richard Hammond in today's Mail on Sunday.
"I think the system's got to be based around reward as well as punishment. There's talk of laws coming in where you're going to be banned after just two offences. So, what if you've driven perfectly for 25 years and then get caught for two minor offences in one day? Does your previously good record count for nothing?
"It's ridiculous. Every clean year you have, you should get points back in credit. You can't just punish people all the time; you have to give people the motivation to want to be a good, sensible driver."
Can anyone tell me why this isn't a good idea?
Reader Comments (8)
A good idea like this would never meet with the approval of the supreme soviet
Two words fines and money.
Is there a web link for this? I can't find one on the Mail website.
You can't just punish people all the time;
Oh yes you can! That's what the
nannybully state is all about: punishing people.PeterE, it was part of an interview in Live magazine so it's probably not online.
You could still have fines, Dave, and points. but points would be deducted from points accumulated for good driving.
Or they could just increase the number of points on a licence before you're banned.....
If I didn't think they'd be losing sleep over the loss of revenue from road tax and fuel, I'd believe that criminalising motorists off the road was this government's transport policy. There again, they're so inept...
Its typical of the way society is going now, bans on everything. What with speed cameras and mind numbing bylaws that's making life a misery for a lot of people.
Society has to pull together, you just can't keep punishing people.
It would be a good thing to give points back in credit but we would be just bogged down in more regulations and implementations.
Why are things always being changed and increased. Every couple of months now there has to be some new form of penalty of one form or another. What has gone wrong with society. Is it that we just have too many of these underworked overpaid govt bodies.
Sack half of them is what I say, maybe its time WE imposed a ban on any more of these useless quangos who are just tax inspectors in disguise!
well i love hammond hes buff so what ever he is sayin then i agree with that sexy beast woooo (yh im a sheep)
en its mi b day on friday the 13 wooo of feb