Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Police forces target biker deaths

Rushjob...............

Your points are well put, as always. Basically what is the alternative????

I, for one, cannot imagine how heartbreaking it must be to have to break terrible news to someone's loved one and family. It must make you focussed. I was going to day angry but I guess that's not the right term...............focussed on getting your point across is the right term. Its no wonder to me that many policemen can get very frustrated when they haul up a 200mph lunatic missile probably not an hour after breaking the bad news to Mrs Whyus and her family.

Personally I believe that the process for targetting motorcyclists and the points system just doesn't work. What ever happened to education and prevention. Its true that too many peeps just take the **** and everyone has a mad moment so an education process surely has to be the way.

Especially if compulsory attendance was the only way of keeping your licence.

A pilot has to be assessed for competancy every year and in many cases they are only putting themselves at risk. But the rules are basically the same whether you are a commercial or private pilot. You are put in control of a potentially dangerous machine and therefore your ability to control that machine has to be continually assessed.

Education (compulsory education) is the way...........every year for all drivers.

Its about time we got away from this comfort zone and realised that every time you get on the bike, or behind the wheel you are at the controls of a potentially dangerous machine.

Oh..............and if you don't reach the standard at the annual assessment..........then you have to re-apply for your licence and it affects your insurance.

If you do reach the required standard then you get to keep your licence and your insurance is substantially reduced.

But it'll never happen.....................it will be an infringement of our civil liberties . I wonder how many people feel their liberties have been infringed when their husband has been killed because of an incompetent driver or, worse still, somebody allowed an early twenty something or a born again fourty something to get on a powerful bike without adequate training or preparation just to have their, and their close families, lives cut tragically short.

[Edited on 26-4-2004 by everton]