Michael Frostick covers the world of motoring

When he was County Surveyor of Dorset, John Leeming made a study of the causes of every road accident in the county. His day-to-day records over a period of twenty years showed that road improvements were a better lifesaver than speed limits.
Now in retirement at Buckfastleigh on the edge of Dartmoor, John Leeming has written a book based on his Dorset experiment, and it attacks the way in which motorists are blamed for road accidents. He claims that instead of engineering skid-proof surfaces and safer cross-roads, authority finds it easier and cheaper to punish the motorist. Britain has fewer road accidents than any comparable country in the world. Can John Leeming's methods reduce the accident rate still further?

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