MisterMMM.com: Can a road be dangerous?

April 5

I always find this funny. Not the dying bit, because that is tragic and very sad, but this idea that the people dying has something directly to do with the road, and only the road.

It's like saying that hospitals are dangerous places, because statistically so many people die there. We really should shut them all down so that people don't die there anymore?!?

I am thinking back to a few years ago when a mother drove her car with baby into the canal at Deepdale Lane in Sinfin.

Now this road in particular, seems a bit dicey to some people. I imagine Andy Parsons from Mock the Week at this point saying, "ooh, well, there's a canal close to the side of the road, I think I'll drive into it!". Of course, this is a silly thing to do, but why should there be barriers to stop you driving into it.

With that logic, there should be barriers on the sides of all roads, to stop drivers driving off of them. It might be onto a pavement where there are pedestrians, or into a wall or railings next to the road, so that the driver is safe from them. It might be to protect the driver from crashing into trees on the roadside. Where does it end, and what should get special treatment?

Anyway, back to the point. There is no such thing as a dangerous road! It is only how people drive on them that is dangerous. If you drive to the conditions up to the speed limit, what's the problem!

Of course, if the conditions are so bad that you can't drive on it, then why are you driving on it?