Got the hump with bumps?

An accident involving a police van, which was responding to an emergency call, has prompted renewed calls from the Association of British Drivers for speed humps to be removed from all of the UK's roads.

The police transit van became airborne after hitting the speed bump, collided with an oncoming car and landed in a garden where six people, one of them a young child, were standing - mercifully no one was injured.

Spokesman, Nigel Humphries, from the ABD asserts: "It is only by some miracle that no-one was killed here.

"We need to get away from the simplistic notion that speed humps make roads safer, they do not, they often make them more dangerous."

ABD chairman, Brian Gregory, concurs: ""Speed humps are nothing more than inverted pot holes, they are a danger to all road users."

The Health and Safety Executive acknowledges that caravan and motorhome owners experience particular difficulties with towing, stability and low-ground clearance issues when encountering speed cushions and speed humps.

25/01/2008 19:24:06