It’s Back to Driving School for Halton Police

Says the Toronto Star .

Me? I’d rather their editors started work.

The leading text of the article says it all:-

So many Halton police cruisers have been involved in crashes that the force has instituted mandatory driving training for its officers.

In the first six months of this year, police cars were involved in 70 accidents, ...

Yep!

In paragraph one they are “crashes”.

By paragraph two they are “accidents”.

And note that it’s NOT about the number of events.

It’s the muddled thinking that allows us to drop into an irresponsible pit of reduced responsibility.

One again, cars don’t crash; drivers crash cars.

Paragraph three:-

Most of this year’s crashes, 41 of the 70, were classified as preventable.

I’m prepared to bet that, when the analysis is made, 100% of collisions are foreseeable and therefore preventable.

I understand the sometime-urgent nature of police calls.

I accept the speeds sometimes-necessarily above speed limits of regular prudence.

But always, police or not, they are crashes or collisions.

They are not accidents.

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