Actually, I said that flippantly because I do think they make one more aware of things around you. I was caught for a second time on a bit of road that had been changed from 60 down to 50, I think. It's a bit of road that I drive on a lot and I just wasn't thinking, although I knew that a local Mum, whose daughter had been killed there by a speeding driver, had campaigned to have the limit lowered.
I mentioned in the Kitchen recently that DD1's sister in law had ended up in the ditch having had to swerve to miss a speeding motorcyclist, who didn't stop. She was saved by her airbags inflating as she hit two telegraph poles. He has got away because he didn't stop. She will lose her No Claims Bonus, her car is a write off and her insurance will be heavily loaded as it is deemed to have been her fault. Doesn't seem right!