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Commenting on the annual report of the Indpendent Police Complaints Commission, which revealed that 23 people were killed in collisions involving police vehicles last year, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Norman Baker said:
"The IPCC is right to be concerned. Police vehicles are involved in too many fatal accidents, but it is not just a problem for the police.
"We need a thorough review of procedures for all emergency vehicles to ensure that other road users are not put in danger."
The report comes out just as a crash, which took the life of a Neath taxi driver, is reported to have involved a stolen car hotly pursued by a police vehicle.
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So, deaths involving the police on the roads are at their lowest for 5 years, with a significant drop in numbers in fact (last year was 36, before that over 40. 36 is the lowest figure otherwise in the last several years) and this is yet again picked up by Mr Baker as a terrible thing.
Is this ambulance chaser of an MP capable of actually discerning relativity from statistics or does he read a poorly written brief and responds as veraciously as possible? First it was talking about a binge drinking problem, that has hit it's lowest level in two decades, as if it's getting out of control, and now ignoring the obvious IMPROVEMENT of police procedures relating to deaths involving them.
I seriously can't understand how this guy is for real.
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