Just reading a recent copy of 'Bike' magazine, and to cut a long story short the subject of 'fatal road accidents' (FATACS) was being discussed. Apparently the average cost to the tax payer to investigate FATACS is....£1.7 million. I know is an average, but how the hell can it cost £1,700,000.
A fatal on the main road in some rural places can cause real delays, for instance if it happens in Shetland it takes 24 hours to get an accident investigation team up from the main land, even longer if its over a bank holiday or week-end, every one has to divert miles round the other side of the island to get to/from Lerwick! Yet they can fly a serious casualty to Aberdeen hospital in hours once stabilized, just shows you how plod work! I cant see the point of all these road investigations closing roads for so long, it does not stop accidents from happening again on the same stretch, time and time again we saw this when we lived on the A1 at Peterborough.
I don't think they close the roads to investigate how to make it safer but who to blame. More speed cameras make more mon..... sorry....make safer roads