Jenny is incensed at the MAD groups insensitivity as speed cameras are only put up at locations where people have died. Jenny will be hanging up
‘Remember Me’ signs at a site in Havering. Launched last month, these
signs are first ever nationwide public acknowledgement for those killed
and injured on Britain’s roads.
The Remember Me signs are produced by RoadPeace, the UK’s first national charity for road victims. These signs are designed to be a lasting memorial to those killed or injured on Britain’s roads. The location
of these memorial markers can be sacred ground to the victim’s family.
Jenny Jones said, "The Remember Me signs are symbolic memorials, but the safety cameras are the most practical memorials of all. Every time someone from MAD vandalises one of these cameras, they are showing their contempt for the people whose deaths led to the cameras being there in the first place.
I can only hope that seeing these Remember Me signs will remind them of
the individual stories of pain and tragedy which these cameras are so
successful at stopping from being repeated."
"The MAD group is a mixture of Maniacs And Dinosaurs who put speed before life and metal before flesh. The Government has imposed a very
restrictive regime on the placement of safety cameras which restricts their use to crash black spots where at least four people have been killed or seriously injured in the last three years. Personally, I find it shocking that our society will not take action where only three people have died on a stretch of road. It is a logic which we would never accept on the railways, or tube."
"Road casualties are the forgotten victims in society today. Road violence is the forgotten crime. There are far more road deaths than
murders in London, yet the police have been allowed to water down the law on speeding. Cars driven dangerously are potential killing machines, yet the police have paid more attention to recovering cars that are stolen, than to dealing with dangerous driving. These horrendous road deaths and injuries are not just individual twists of fate, but preventable acts of social neglect."
ENDS