“Dave, I hope you watched me on DayBreak this morning talking about drug driving. I cover all issues regarding dangerous driving, including speed. My son's killer was charged with "Causing Death by Dangerous driving" this charge was given due to the alcohol & the excessive speed at which he was driving, unfortunately the drugs couldn't be brought into account as there is no law in place to prove the affect drugs have on the ability to drive.
You keep referring to a few mph over the legal limit. Idris Francis a member of the ABD was caught by a speed camera doing 47 mph in a 30 mph zone, I don't call that a few mph over the speed limit, I call that dangerous. To add to insult he then appealed his lost case, wasting tax payers money & had the nerve to ask for public donations. That most definitely is not in the interests of road safety. That is pure selfishness.
There are thousands of drivers who manage perfectly well to drive past speed cameras without them flashing, why do you find that so difficult, especially with your advanced driving education. It's not rocket science, it is simply common sence.”

“I wasn't going to post here again but having just watched you on the One Show conspiring to deliberately hide the fact that your son's killer's had been drinking and taking drugs and ONLY mentioning his speeding, it has utterly convinced me. I have to ask you to question whether your son would approve of your distortion of facts to ensure continued targeting of safe drivers or would he rather have proper policing on the roads catching just the sort of drivers that killed him that we call for and you bizzarrely object to? This driver could have been taken off the road long before he had the chance to kill anybody if road safety policy hadn't been skewed by the likes of Brake with their personal agendas. Instead he knew the chances of being caught drink driving were so remote he went ahead and did it. Just like all the other Brake 'speeding' cases, they knew when they stole the car or had those extra drinks or line of coke that all the police have been replaced by speed cameras and that they would get away with it. Still, so long as we keep fining sober middle class schoolteachers and grannies who have driven all their lives without an accident for doing 34MPH on straight empty roads it's all OK isn't it?

Now to your other point: Any driver who refuses extra training must think they know it all. Why else would they refuse it? Especially when they are dictating to others how they should drive and putting themselves up as a 'road safety campaigner' I would have thought they would want to ensure that they know as much as possible. Strange, very strange but somehow expected.”

“I have spoken to a number of people who found the speed awareness course to be very educational & benefical.
You cannot bring in to this debate how fast airoplanes travel, trains travel, the speed of the earth etc etc, those are simply completely seperate from speeding on our roads.
I go into schools, army, airforce, companies along with others to educate on all aspects of driving not just speed.
I don't know it all about anything I just do the best I can to help reduce deaths & serious injuries on our roads.
I will continue to do that & refuse to be pushed around by bullies. I stand firmly by my previous comment.”

“Clare you have surpassed yourself. Now you only answer questions from those who agree with you! Do you really expect anybody to believe the reason you haven't come up with any cases of deaths or genuine serious injuries from otherwise legal drivers travelling a few MPH above the speed limit is because they would be pulled apart? We have to analyse reasons for crashes to establish ways to prevent them. If they were genuine cases they COULDN'T be 'pulled apart' and the analysis would show that the crash was caused by a sober, otherwise legal driver travelling a few MPH over the limit. It is obvious to all that you haven't put any forward and nor has anybody else because such cases are exceedingly rare if even existent and your mates at Brake simply can't find any. Neither can I, I've been looking for years. However you will never admit this as it doesn't suit your personal agenda to promote the myth that such cases are the majority.

If I had lost a close relative in a road crash (incidentally I have some while back) I would WANT the case pulled apart. I would to know the most effective ways of preventing such a tragedy occuring again. I certainly wouldn't want it used in a game to promote distortion of facts and statistics and promote an empire that is not saving lives.

You go into schools to educate youngsters. Yes, could be fantastic work, but sadly it seems to be to educate them to your own agenda, not to be safer but to obey speed limits. Clearly setting speeds to conditions is a mystery to you but you show no interest in finding out how really safe drivers achieve this so that you can pass on really useful information. Clare knows it all and does not need to learn advanced skills. I see so many drivers like you who think they know it all and that learning stops at the driving test. Realising that one's whole driving career is a learning curve is probably the most important lesson but it seems one you have yet to learn.

You will not learn anything about setting speed to conditions or hazard perception and avoidance at a 'speed awareness course'. I've spoken to enough people who have been on them to be well aware of that. They are simply indoctrination courses preaching the driving by numbers mantra. Anybody who asks the wrong questions gets thrown off the course and given the points and fine instead.

This has become like a religion. Rational argument, analysis or questioning is not allowed. There is only one reason why anybody would want to close down debate. When they know deep down they have got it so wrong.

Goodbye.”

“Idris Francis is just a rude, cruel man, who has nothing better to do than twist the truth to suit his own beliefs. Google his name to find out about him yourself.
Speed kills!! Every body knows it!
My son was killed in a RTC, it is RTC's of every kind that I am trying to reduce on our roads. I have never said a speed camera may have saved my sons life! that is just the poor arguement Idris & the ABD are using because they don't have a real arguement to present! They need to concider the hurt they cause with the words they print. But I doubt they will ever do that because they obviously don't care about people. Dead or Alive!”