JET and safety

[Martin Cassini]

At a meeting with a council to discuss a JET, the question arose, What if there's a fatal accident during the lights-off phase of the trial? The council leader is a man of action, so I hope he won't let the fear factor deter him. Lights take our eyes off the road and encourage speed: a recipe for danger. But when lights break down and there is no priority, we approach carefully and watch the road: a recipe for safety. A traffic engineer asked if I would take responsibility for a death under FiT. The question is completely hypothetical, but yes I would, especially if I could run an accompanying campaign to promote the culture of equality. Under the current system, there are 30,000 KSIs (killed and seriously injured) a year. Who takes responsibility for those?