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Our council has started putting these big yellow signs up on lamp post etc along the road. They are called 'Accident Route Alert'. They tell you how many crashes there have been along that particular stretch of road.

Working on the theory that the purpose of the exercise would be to reduce crashes why do they put things up for drivers to read when they should be watching what's happening on the road around them.

My other question is why do they call them crashes and not accidents.

I would expect to find this kind of thing in an accident black spot perhaps but we've got them all over the place. Have they popped up anywhere else recently?

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Because they are thick.

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We have these things all over the place.....

Ours look bigger than that and say things like 143 crashes in 3 years

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These signs are more likely to cause accidents motorists have a tendency to brake sharply after reading such signs.I think the money should be spent on something worthwhile.

They use the terms 'crashes' and 'collisions' because they are objective. 'Accident' implies that someone is at fault, albeit unknowingly, and until cause is established blame cannot be apportioned.

Think you have that the wrong way around. Accident suggests that no-one is at fault and there is almost always negligence when there is a crash

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That was, in fact, the way it was explained to me elsewhere a little while ago: www.traffic-answers.co.uk

Suffice to say, the reason for the terminology is to do with the apportioning, or not, of blame.

The police dont use the term RTA (road traffic accident) any more, it is now a RTC (road traffic collision) more evidence of PC (political correctness) gone mad!

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It's a little concerning here cos I haven't seen a single one that says there were less than 100 Ooops on a stretch of road. I think Ooops is a better description than collision, crash or accident

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Accident infers it was unavoidable, so it isnt used now, given we sue everybody and everything for anything

you cant sue for the unavoidable

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