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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
A frustration of mine is that there are never any investigation results released for any accident.
I feel that if there were some project to provide causal information of accidents and it were presented to the public in an educational manner, that people might better understand how their everyday actions could lead to tragedy in an instant. Nobody heads out on/in their bike/car/truck thinking that they may die or kill somebody that day, but it happens regularly, in an instant, and there are always factors that lead up to the accident that could have prevented it.
The media reports accidents on a regular basis, but only the sensational bits. The result is that the public is aware that accidents happen but not necessarily why and thus continues to commit the same errors day after day resulting in similar, preventable accidents over and over.
Perhaps if there were some information sharing they might understand how accidents happen, and it might prompt them think a little more when they are riding/driving.
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Police accident investigations determine what happened, who's at fault, and what rules were broken if any, so that fines can be issued.
Tsb investigations look to find what happened and the series of events that let to the incident so that specific safety risks can be identified and remedied.
Police investigations are not about safety. They are about compliance to rules.
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