Dear oh dear.
Whoever is running the @Trafficwmp account needs to have a word with @WMPTIU @markandcharlie and wise up on the principles of Road Danger Reduction.
Just to explain:
A. A child feeling that it is their job to "be seen" becomes another driver who shifts their

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responsibility to WATCH OUT FOR OTHERS on to their actual or potential victims. There is already enough of this about - the stress on hi-viz exacerbates it and backs up the "SMIDSY" excuse.
It ends up making pedestrians and cyclists LESS likely to "be seen".

B. "All road

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users have a responsibility for road safety" is at best meaningless: does it mean we should report bad driving, not drive in the first place because you& #39;re more likely to hurt someone else than if you walk or cycle?

At worst it pushes a false equivalence between those much

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more likely to hurt others and those MUCH LESS likely to.

@Trafficwmp should know that this is being explicitly addressed in the current @HighwayCodeGB revision https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/review-of-the-highway-code-to-improve-road-safety-for-cyclists-pedestrians-and-horse-riders">https://www.gov.uk/governmen... .

We didn& #39;t give @Trafficwmp a very special award in 2016 so that they could come

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up with this sort of nonsense. https://rdrf.org.uk/2016/11/22/a-new-dawn-in-policing-to-prevent-danger-to-cyclists-the-rdrf-award-to-west-midlands-traffic-police/">https://rdrf.org.uk/2016/11/2... .

Please get your act together!

@DaveThompsonCC @WestMidsPCC

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