Put Not Your Faith In Safety Restrictions…

Hard not to feel sympathy for the owner of the track on which a young girl who’d probably never even heard of Isadora Duncan died, and his obvious anguished bafflement that the modern ritual of appeasing the H&S gods has failed:

'We have such strict safety restrictions - this should never have happened. '

Nothing wrong with your safety restrictions. They weren’t lacking, this isn’t some freak, hitherto unseen fault that a new set of safety restrictions will prevent from ever happening again.

This was a case of irresponsible people failing to apply those safety restrictions.

And nothing will ever prevent that from happening:

Mr Meakins said Kilvin's responsibilities as marshal included making sure clients were wearing helmets, adjusting the cars and monitor the races.

But he said Kilvin had chosen to take part in driving himself so nobody was watching the track when the accident occurred.

He added: 'I have seven members of staff here and Andy was the second most experienced so he would have known the safety rules categorically.

There are no excuses whatsoever.'

Actually, there’s the oldest one in the book. Human nature.

People do things. Stupid things. Fatal things. And sometimes other people pay the price.