This, of course, refers to Smith's recommendation of trampling on peoples' grief to duck speeding fines here:
Paul Smith Sep 3 2001, 11:01 am You don`t even need to know the deceased. Just picking a name for the
local newspaper`s obituary column has been known to work nicely. With a bit of care in your choice, there`s no one to call you a liar. (It`s on my web site :-) -- Paul Smith Scotland, UK http://www.safespeed.org.uk
For anyone desperate enough to take up the now deceased Mr Smith's suggestion above, here's HIS address:
Paul Smith Coast View Hunting Hill near Tain Ross-shire Scotland IV19 1PE
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Unfortunatly, there will be someone equally nasty and dangerous to take his place (assuming he was nasty and dangerous).
There'll be a press vacuum, certainly.
Perhaps the media can be satisfied by one of the informed, thoughtful, positive and rounded commentators we are fortunate to have posting to this newsgroup.
Smith's views dovetailed with the editorial sentiments of several motoring/motor cycling publications. I doubt that he'll be replaced by members of urc whose sentiments are diametrically opposed to those of the deceased.
to be honest i'd never heard of him. bar though spindrift's venom. while i do have a car and do drive regularly i have little intrest in cars, i do watch top gear but then that has little about cars as well in many ways.
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> Unfortunatly, there will be someone equally nasty and dangerous to > take > his > place (assuming he was nasty and dangerous).
There'll be a press vacuum, certainly.
Perhaps the media can be satisfied by one of the informed, thoughtful, positive and rounded commentators we are fortunate to have posting to this newsgroup.
Smith's views dovetailed with the editorial sentiments of several motoring/motor cycling publications. I doubt that he'll be replaced by members of urc whose sentiments are diametrically opposed to those of the deceased.
to be honest i'd never heard of him. bar though spindrift's venom. while i do have a car and do drive regularly i have little intrest in cars, i do watch top gear but then that has little about cars as well in many ways.
Motorcycle News and Bike Magazine have used his materials and views in anti speed camera articles. There was a well written piece incorporating decent input from him about the dangers posed by the winscreen pillars of certain models of cars creating dangerous blind spots and posing a hazard to two wheeled vehicles and pedestrians. He might have made other decent contributions to improving road safety but they've no doubt been overshadowed by the strident protests of his detractors. He certainly wasn't a one trick pony....
Motorcycle News and Bike Magazine have used his materials and views in anti speed camera articles. There was a well written piece incorporating decent input from him about the dangers posed by the winscreen pillars of certain models of cars creating dangerous blind spots and posing a hazard to two wheeled vehicles and pedestrians.
Yes, smidsy.org.uk was his. But he seems to have concentrated far more on his speed obsession for some time.
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Motorcycle News and Bike Magazine have used his materials and views in anti speed camera articles. There was a well written piece incorporating decent input from him about the dangers posed by the winscreen pillars of certain models of cars creating dangerous blind spots and posing a hazard to two wheeled vehicles and pedestrians. He might have made other decent contributions to improving road safety but they've no doubt been overshadowed by the strident protests of his detractors. He certainly wasn't a one trick pony....
Thanks for that Vernon. I don't read such mags, so was unaware that he had any views about road safety other than the ones about speed cameras. So partly the media's fault in encouraging him and only showing the bits that made a good story for them.
