Safespeed founder has died
 

Paul Smith of 'Safespeed' website has died. A great campaigner for road saftey. Sad loss

If it been posted before hand, sorry

Andy

I was just about to post this when I found your post.

:( Really sad news, I've no idea how I missed your post :(

He did a lot of unpaid work that was actually starting to gather pace. On many occasions his work was reported in the press. Perhaps some saving grace can be taken from the fact his wife intends to carry on his work.

Safe Speed founder Paul Smith dies - Motorcycle News - MCN

I'll continue buying his shirts in support. :D

Please don't get all serious now, being able to joke and laugh at situations like these is very British.

That's really sad - one of the few voices of reason in a sea of insanity. Glad to see his partner is going to carry on the running of the website and campaign.

How so? I know nothing of him but IME 99.9999% of people that campaign for slower speeds are absolutely clueless as to the real cause of accidents and deaths on our roads and become obsessed with the most quantifiable variable (speed). I'd be interested to read links to view of his that would suggest he did have better reasoning :)

Just looked at Safe Speed - a good start. Seems he did have a clue.

He certainly did. His main argument was always the ridiculous assertion that speed in it self was the cause of most accidents, when even the DoT own figures showed that that was not the case. He also wanted the massive reduction in traffic police to be reversed. He wasn't some mad petrolhead speed junky, he just wanted safer roads which he believed would come through the correct policing of those roads by properly trained police officers and not the overly simplistic blanket use of speed cameras.

Good man. A great loss to reason and rationality

:(

Crikey - just read this thread - sad news indeed, he spoke a lot on common sense ! Spent a lot of time on the safe speed site
My thoughts go out to his family !

Richard

You really have no clue who he was or what he was about do you? Look at Welcome to Safe Speed and then see if you hold the same view.

I openly admit I know nothing about him in my first sentence.

IME = in my experience and I make no direct claim regards Mr Smith.

I publicly request additional information to set aside my fears that he's just like every other 'speed freak'.

In short Olly I don't understand your tone when I feel I'm quite justifiably and sensibly requesting information on how this guy was different from the rest :)

But why make reference to them if you don't know enough about Paul Smith to establish if he is one of the people you're referring to?

Which was supplied.

Tone? How did you determine a tone from typed text. I asked a question and supplied the information you asked.

Maybe you did not see both of Saxo's posts near the top of the thread.

To me your post just seems a bit wanky, provocative and abrupt...

Hence the joy of typed text, easy to misinterpret I guess ;)

^^^ what he said.

Matter forgotten.

Sad. How did he die?

:)

Stroke / heart attack it would seem