Time and time again aggressive and dangerous driver's throw out the same abuse "I pay road tax," but road tax was abolished in 1937 and replaced by the Vehicle Excise Duty, of which the process was started by Winston Churchill.
Road maintenance is paid for by local and general taxation. The problem is a lot of government agencies and the post office alike generally now call it road tax so people as a rule stay ignorant to the fact, and it subconsciously gives selfish and inconsiderate driver's, who once they've committed an act that near on kills some innocent cyclist, an excuse as if even if what they believe were true, that it in it self would justify the fact that they just near on killed someone.
The term road tax implies your being taxed to use the roads, and the money goes straight back into the roads, "and that's just not true." The term road tax in it's self is not dangerous, but the fact that it fuels a certain type of driver with ammunition to believe that they have more rights on the road than other road user's such pedestrians, horse-riders and cyclists, is in it self dangerous, so government agency's ought to address this fact, and educate people to the fact's and take this pathetic excuse for bad manner's and pure bloody mindedness.
The Vehicle Excise licence historically is a tax on cars and not roads, and it goes straight to the general treasury and not on maintaining or building roads, in fact today's Vehicle Exercise Duty is an emission's tax based on emissions produced by individual vehicle's, the higher the emission's the higher the tax bracket .
Society as a rule needs to change, we all pay for the roads and that's a fact, and people need to learn how to say sorry and take ownership when they make a mistake, we're all human and as so we all occasionally mess up, accidents happen, but that's no excuse for bad attitudes of which cost's lives.
Road maintenance is paid for by local and general taxation. The problem is a lot of government agencies and the post office alike generally now call it road tax so people as a rule stay ignorant to the fact, and it subconsciously gives selfish and inconsiderate driver's, who once they've committed an act that near on kills some innocent cyclist, an excuse as if even if what they believe were true, that it in it self would justify the fact that they just near on killed someone.
The term road tax implies your being taxed to use the roads, and the money goes straight back into the roads, "and that's just not true." The term road tax in it's self is not dangerous, but the fact that it fuels a certain type of driver with ammunition to believe that they have more rights on the road than other road user's such pedestrians, horse-riders and cyclists, is in it self dangerous, so government agency's ought to address this fact, and educate people to the fact's and take this pathetic excuse for bad manner's and pure bloody mindedness.
The Vehicle Excise licence historically is a tax on cars and not roads, and it goes straight to the general treasury and not on maintaining or building roads, in fact today's Vehicle Exercise Duty is an emission's tax based on emissions produced by individual vehicle's, the higher the emission's the higher the tax bracket .
Society as a rule needs to change, we all pay for the roads and that's a fact, and people need to learn how to say sorry and take ownership when they make a mistake, we're all human and as so we all occasionally mess up, accidents happen, but that's no excuse for bad attitudes of which cost's lives.
A young woman driver who stupidly bragged on twitter in May 2013 about hitting a cyclist, #bloodycyclists "don't pay road tax", was found guilty last November and fined a total £637, £337 fine and £300 court cost's, and seven point's added to her licence again just monetising the situation. It may sound harsh but had she been given a custodial sentence, the time would have given her a reality check and time to reflect on the seriousness of what she'd actually done, as well as sending out a message to future driver's of this type of attitude. She described the tweet as her "biggest regret" but went on to say "I was quite angry about his mannerism and... that he was on my side of the road and it seemed somehow disrespectful."
The fact that the tweet went viral shows the level of outrage felt by the general public, screen shots were taken and tweeted to @NorwichPoliceUk and she was charged and found guilty of two of three charges. She went on to say in a TV interview on ITV's Daybreak programme, that she regrets the tweet and didn't drive badly. The picture to the right was tweeted by her self suggesting that the photo was taken at the time of the incident.
This was the reply tweet by Norwich Police, she went on to suffer cyber bullying of which we do not condone, however it does demonstrate the level of disgust felt.
The young lady has since closed the twitter account down hence we're reporting using the images, as said earlier, we're not condoning bullying in any format, but this doe's show the attitude demonstrated by far to many driver's towards cyclist's.
