- From the archive: Seat belt drivers buckle under
Originally published on 1 February 1983The driving habits of a life-time were changed overnight for more than half the motorists in the country yesterday as they bowed to the inevitable and started wearing seat belts.Over the country more than 90 per cent of drivers and passengers were wearing belts compared with about 40 per cent before it became compulsory.Surveys by the Automobile Association showed Teesside drivers topped the league, with 97 per cent wearing belts. Cardiff and Edinburgh were at the other extreme with only 64 and 65 per cent. Other towns surveyed fell mostly near the top of the two extremes. Bournemouth and Cove。。try, 96 per cent; Merseyside, 95; Grea。。er Manchester, 93; Glasgow, Inverness, Nottingham and Newcastle, 92; Leeds and Truro, 90; London, 86.Most of the potential offenders blamed absent-mindedness rather than defiance when questioned, and at a service station many of the people driving off after filling up had forgotten to put on their belts again.The delivery driver loophole in the new law was manifest in town centre traffic. Eliminating vehicles like milk floats and vans obviously carrying out very local deliveries, who are exempt, it appeared that something like 35 per cent of van drivers who should have been belted were not, including a van loaded with building materials, immediately behind a police patrol car.The unbelted driver and passenger of a hearse seen heading for the Golders Green Crematorium may have been counting on the defence that they were involved in the collection and delivery business too. They arrived alive.Others were quick to claim that without the new belt law they might not have. A 79-year-old man from Denbigh, wearing his belt for the first time, was left dangling upside down in his car after it turned over in the として彼らにお辞儀を本来の生活の2月1日1983The運転習慣をリアルタイムで公開一夜にして国の半分以上のドライバーは、昨日に変更されたが避けられないと座席belts.Over着始めた運転手と乗客のパーセント国の90以上の約40パーセントとする前に、自動車協会compulsory.Surveysなった比較を着てベルトがTeessideドライバを示し、97％を占めてシートベルトを締めてリーグ戦を突破した
- Keep our war veterans out of prison | David Ramsbotham
That so many ex-servicemen end up in prison is shocking. We owe our veterans help returning to civilian lifeToday a conference will be held by Veterans in Prison, of which I am president, to examine a problem that was drawn to the attention of the public last year by the National Association of Probation Officers, which published the surprising and shocking figures that some 20,000 ex-members of the armed forces were in the hands of the criminal justice system, more than 10,000 of them in prison. The ministries of defence and justice responded by denying that figure, suggesting that the figure was nearer 5,000 and admitting that, while exact records were not available, the total included a number who had served in Iraq and/or Afghanistan and were suffering from various mental problems including post-traumatic stress disorder.Whatever the actual numbers turn out to be, the exposure of the situation demands a national response in line with the much-vaunted military covenant. The nation is reminded of the debt that it owes to the men and women who serve in its armed forces, most obviously when images of hearses containing union flag-draped coffins passing through Wooton Bassett appear on our TV screens. The military covenant is the term used to describe that debt, which should include help given to enable servicemen and women to return to civilian life at the end of their service.However, this highlights the Greek tragedy of this process for many of them, who joined the armed forces to get away from the chaotic and dysfunctional lifestyle which had been theirs at home. The armed forces, as institutions, are often accused of overprotecting service people from the realities of life, meaning that the shock of exit is something that many cannot absorb. They don't want to go ba 刑務所にそれは非常に多くの元軍人終わりが衝撃的だ
- Poland mourns as president lies in state
WARSAW, Poland - Thousands of grieving mourners tossed flowers on a slow-moving hearse and joined an enormous viewing line at the presidential palace to pay their respects to Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife as their bodies... ワルシャワ、会葬者を悲嘆のポーランド - 何千人もの遅い霊柩車に花を投げ、大統領宮殿でポーランド大統領レフカチンスキと彼の妻に自分の体としての敬意を巨大な表示の行に参加しました...
- Mourners gather as soldiers' bodies are brought back from Afghanistan
Mourners gathered in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshiretoday as the coffins of two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan passed through the town.The Union flag-draped coffins carrying Rifleman Aidan Howell and Sapper David Watson were driven through the town for their repatriation.Sapper Watson, 23, of 33 Engineer Regiment – a bomb disposal expert – and Rifleman Howell, 19, of 3rd Battalion the Rifles, were killed in Afghanistan in the last week of December. Sapper Watson was brought up in Whickham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and died of wounds sustained in a blast caused by a roadside bomb on New Year's Eve in the Sangin region of Helmand province. Rifleman Howell, who was born in Sidcup, south-east London, died after an explosion near Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge in the Kajaki area of Helmand on 28 December.A Leeds United Union flag was placed on top of the hearse carrying Rifleman Howell, left, who was a fan of the West Yorkshire football club.Meanwhile, the first British soldier to be killed in Afghanistan this year was named yesterday as Private Robert Hayes, 19, of 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment. He was killed by a bomb while on foot patrol in Helmand on Sunday.MilitaryAfghanistanguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
会葬者ウットンバセット、Wiltshiretoday 2人のイギリス軍、アフガニスタンで死亡したの棺のように、town.The連合旗で覆われた棺ライフル銃エイハウエルザッパーデビッドワトソン帳簿を介して渡されたそのrepatriation.Sapperワトソン、23の町を介して駆動され、集まった33連隊の-爆弾処理の専門家-とライフル銃ハウエル、19、第3大隊のライフル銃は、アフガニスタンでの12月の最後の週に死亡した
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