KDS Road Safety "STOP THE DEATHS ON UK ROADS"
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10000
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3,172 people were killed on the UK's roads each year. That means that every day, nine police officers have to visit nine families and break the news that a loved one has suffered a sudden, violent death. A further 28,673 people are seriously injured in road crashes. That's more than 70 people every day suffering injuries which include brain damage, paralysis, loss of limbs, severe burning or facial disfigurement - injuries that can change lives forever.
KDS are dedicated to reducing these figures.
KDS recently won a Fleet Safety Forum award for excellence for its outstanding commitment to road safety. By re-branding its vehicles it aims to keep road safety at the forefront of the minds of employees and other road users.Our aim, is to initiate a sea change in attitudes towards road safety and proposing proactive ways of reducing the unacceptable record of death and injury on UK roads.
We will be using this petition to raise this issue with the British and Scottish Parliaments.
3,172 people were killed on the UK's roads each year. That means that every day, nine police officers have to visit nine families and break the news that a loved one has suffered a sudden, violent death. A further 28,673 people are seriously injured in road crashes. That's more than 70 people every day suffering injuries which include brain damage, paralysis, loss of limbs, severe burning or facial disfigurement - injuries that can change lives forever.
KDS are dedicated to reducing these figures.
KDS recently won a Fleet Safety Forum award for excellence for its outstanding commitment to road safety. By re-branding its vehicles it aims to keep road safety at the forefront of the minds of employees and other road users.Our aim, is to initiate a sea change in attitudes towards road safety and proposing proactive ways of reducing the unacceptable record of death and injury on UK roads.
We will be using this petition to raise this issue with the British and Scottish Parliaments.
Dear Sir/Madam,
We the undersigned would like to highlight the following issues that relate to Road Safety in the UK.
We are focussing on these points.
Point 1: What is the value on a human life? The sentences handed out by the justice system are not hard enough
Point 2: Alcohol should not be served at filling stations
Point 3: Road markings at or near primary/secondary schools should be in red
Point 4: If you have been banned from driving, you should have to re-sit your driving test
Point 5: Total elimination of mobile phones within vehicles i.e. ban on hands free
Point 6: The car industry has to take more of a moral and social responsibility in promoting road safety
Point 7: Rolling road safety adverts displayed in pubs, clubs (after 7pm) and in car showrooms
We would like to thank your for taking the time to read over our concerns and we would like to start to change the carnage that road deaths bring to thousands of families accross the UK
We signed the "KDS Road Safety "STOP THE DEATHS ON UK ROADS"" petition!
# 321:
7:14 am PST, Feb 7,
Lynna Mustapha, Malaysia
'With the Medicine Buddha mantra you can liberate numberless sentient beings from oceans of suffering and bring them to enlightenment.' - Lama Zopa. Tayata Om Bekanze Bekanze Maha BeKanze Radza Samudgate Soha In the Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharāja Sūtra, the Medicine Buddha is described as having entered into a state of samadhi called "Eliminating All the Suffering and Afflictions of Sentient Beings." From this samadhi state he spoke the Medicine Buddha Dharani.[1] namo bhagavate bhaiṣajyaguru vaiḍūryaprabharājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyaksambuddhāya tadyathā: oṃ bhaiṣajye bhaiṣajye mahābhaiṣajya-samudgate svāhā. The last line of the dharani is used as the Medicine Buddha's mantra. Medicine Buddha Sutra, as a bodhisattva who made 12 great vows. On achieving Buddhahood, he became the Buddha of the eastern realm of Vaidūryanirbhāsa, or "Pure Lapis Lazuli". The Twelve Vows of the Medicine Buddha upon attaining Enlightenment, according to the Medicine Buddha Sutra[1] are: To illuminate countless realms with his radiance, enabling anyone to become a Buddha just like him. To awaken the minds of sentient beings through his light of lapis lazuli. To provide the sentient beings with whatever material needs they require. To correct heretical views and inspire beings toward the path of the Bodhisattva. To help beings follow the Moral Precepts, even if they failed before. To heal beings born with deformities, illness or other physical sufferings. To help relieve the destitute and the sick. To help women who wish to be reborn as men achieve their desired rebirth. To help heal mental afflictions and delusions. To help the oppressed be free from suffering. To relieve those who suffer from terrible hunger and thirst. To help clothe those who are destitute and suffering from cold and mosquitoes. Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā - Tara, whose name means "star" or "she who ferries across," is a Bodhisattva of compassion who manifests in female form. "She Who Saves." In particular she represents compassion in action, since she’s in the process of stepping from her lotus throne in order to help sentient beings. 1. Tāre represents salvation from mundane dangers and suffering. Tara is seem as a savioress who can give aid from material threats such as floods, crime, wild animals, and traffic accidents. Tara is therefore said to protect against ordinary worldly dangers. 2. Tuttāre represents deliverance into the spiritual path conceived in terms of individual salvation. In traditional terms, this is the path of the Arhant, which leads to individual liberation from suffering. This is seen in Mahayana Buddhism as a kind of enlightenment in which compassion does not figure strongly. Tara therefore offers individual protection from the spiritual dangers of greed, hatred, and delusion: the three factors that cause us individual suffering. 3. Lastly, ture represents the culmination of the spiritual path in terms of deliverance into the altruistic path of universal salvation – the Bodhisattva path. In the Bodhisattva path we aspire for personal enlightenment, but we also connect compassionately with the sufferings of others, and strive to liberate them at the same time as we seek enlightenment ourselves. Tara therefore delivers us from a narrow conception of the spiritual life. She saves us from the notion that spiritual progress is about narrowly liberating ourselves from our own suffering, and instead leads us to see that true spiritual progress involves having compassion for others. By the time we have been liberated from mundane dangers, liberated from a narrow conception of the spiritual path, and led to a realization of compassion, we have effectively become Tara. In Buddhist practice the “deities” represent our own inner potential. We are all potentially Tara. We can all become Tara. Svaha, according to Monier Monier-William’s Sanskrit Dictionary, means: "Hail!", "Hail to!" or "May a blessing rest on!" We could see this final blessing as symbolizing the recognition that we are, ultimately, Tara. Her mantra can therefore be rendered as something like "OM! Hail to Tara (in her three roles as a savioress)!" Om Tare Tuttare Ture Mama Ayuh Punya Jñana Pustim Kuru Svaha Mama means "mine" and indicates that you’d like to possess these qualities of long life, merit, wisdom, happiness, etc. You can of course choose to wish these qualities for someone else — perhaps for a teacher or for a loved one who is ill. Ayuh is long life (as in Ayurvedic medicine). Punya means the merit that comes from living life ethically, and this merit is said to help one to live long and happily. Jnana is wisdom. Punya and Jnana are known as the Two Accumulations. In order to become enlightened we need to accumulate merit (that is, to develop positive qualities through living ethically and meditating) but we also need to develop wisdom through deep reflection. Wisdom cannot arise without a basis of merit, but merit alone is not enough for us to become enlightened, meaning that becoming a nicer person isn’t enough — we have also to look deeply into ourselves and the world around us and to see the impermanent and insubstantial nature of all things. Pushtim means wealth, abundance, or increase.
'With the Medicine Buddha mantra you can liberate numberless sentient beings from oceans of suffering and bring them to enlightenment.' - Lama Zopa. Tayata Om Bekanze Bekanze Maha BeKanze Radza Samudgate Soha In the Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharāja Sūtra, the Medicine Buddha is described as having entered into a state of samadhi called "Eliminating All the Suffering and Afflictions of Sentient Beings." From this samadhi state he spoke the Medicine Buddha Dharani.[1] namo bhagavate bhaiṣajyaguru vaiḍūryaprabharājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyaksambuddhāya tadyathā: oṃ bhaiṣajye bhaiṣajye mahābhaiṣajya-samudgate svāhā. The last line of the dharani is used as the Medicine Buddha's mantra. Medicine Buddha Sutra, as a bodhisattva who made 12 great vows. On achieving Buddhahood, he became the Buddha of the eastern realm of Vaidūryanirbhāsa, or "Pure Lapis Lazuli". The Twelve Vows of the Medicine Buddha upon attaining Enlightenment, according to the Medicine Buddha Sutra[1] are: To illuminate countless realms with his radiance, enabling anyone to become a Buddha just like him. To awaken the minds of sentient beings through his light of lapis lazuli. To provide the sentient beings with whatever material needs they require. To correct heretical views and inspire beings toward the path of the Bodhisattva. To help beings follow the Moral Precepts, even if they failed before. To heal beings born with deformities, illness or other physical sufferings. To help relieve the destitute and the sick. To help women who wish to be reborn as men achieve their desired rebirth. To help heal mental afflictions and delusions. To help the oppressed be free from suffering. To relieve those who suffer from terrible hunger and thirst. To help clothe those who are destitute and suffering from cold and mosquitoes. Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā - Tara, whose name means "star" or "she who ferries across," is a Bodhisattva of compassion who manifests in female form. "She Who Saves." In particular she represents compassion in action, since she’s in the process of stepping from her lotus throne in order to help sentient beings. 1. Tāre represents salvation from mundane dangers and suffering. Tara is seem as a savioress who can give aid from material threats such as floods, crime, wild animals, and traffic accidents. Tara is therefore said to protect against ordinary worldly dangers. 2. Tuttāre represents deliverance into the spiritual path conceived in terms of individual salvation. In traditional terms, this is the path of the Arhant, which leads to individual liberation from suffering. This is seen in Mahayana Buddhism as a kind of enlightenment in which compassion does not figure strongly. Tara therefore offers individual protection from the spiritual dangers of greed, hatred, and delusion: the three factors that cause us individual suffering. 3. Lastly, ture represents the culmination of the spiritual path in terms of deliverance into the altruistic path of universal salvation – the Bodhisattva path. In the Bodhisattva path we aspire for personal enlightenment, but we also connect compassionately with the sufferings of others, and strive to liberate them at the same time as we seek enlightenment ourselves. Tara therefore delivers us from a narrow conception of the spiritual life. She saves us from the notion that spiritual progress is about narrowly liberating ourselves from our own suffering, and instead leads us to see that true spiritual progress involves having compassion for others. By the time we have been liberated from mundane dangers, liberated from a narrow conception of the spiritual path, and led to a realization of compassion, we have effectively become Tara. In Buddhist practice the “deities” represent our own inner potential. We are all potentially Tara. We can all become Tara. Svaha, according to Monier Monier-William’s Sanskrit Dictionary, means: "Hail!", "Hail to!" or "May a blessing rest on!" We could see this final blessing as symbolizing the recognition that we are, ultimately, Tara. Her mantra can therefore be rendered as something like "OM! Hail to Tara (in her three roles as a savioress)!" Om Tare Tuttare Ture Mama Ayuh Punya Jñana Pustim Kuru Svaha Mama means "mine" and indicates that you’d like to possess these qualities of long life, merit, wisdom, happiness, etc. You can of course choose to wish these qualities for someone else — perhaps for a teacher or for a loved one who is ill. Ayuh is long life (as in Ayurvedic medicine). Punya means the merit that comes from living life ethically, and this merit is said to help one to live long and happily. Jnana is wisdom. Punya and Jnana are known as the Two Accumulations. In order to become enlightened we need to accumulate merit (that is, to develop positive qualities through living ethically and meditating) but we also need to develop wisdom through deep reflection. Wisdom cannot arise without a basis of merit, but merit alone is not enough for us to become enlightened, meaning that becoming a nicer person isn’t enough — we have also to look deeply into ourselves and the world around us and to see the impermanent and insubstantial nature of all things. Pushtim means wealth, abundance, or increase.
# 320:
1:45 am PST, Jan 28,
Roger McGeachin, United Kingdom
# 319:
5:15 am PST, Jan 17,
Silvia Melo, Portugal
# 318:
7:02 am PST, Jan 13,
Marie McMillan, United Kingdom
# 317:
1:22 am PST, Jan 13,
James Chisholm, United Kingdom
# 316:
7:37 am PST, Dec 3,
DaviD Law, United Kingdom
# 315:
7:35 am PST, Dec 3,
Gerard Burns, United Kingdom
# 314:
7:33 am PST, Dec 3,
Steven Horne, United Kingdom
# 313:
7:31 am PST, Dec 3,
Michael Duffy, United Kingdom
# 312:
7:28 am PST, Dec 3,
Crawford Forrest, United Kingdom
# 311:
7:24 am PST, Dec 3,
Robert Ross, United Kingdom
# 310:
7:20 am PST, Dec 3,
GEORGE MCLELLAND, United Kingdom
# 309:
7:18 am PST, Dec 3,
John Cullen, United Kingdom
# 308:
7:10 am PST, Dec 3,
Simon Robertson, United Kingdom
# 307:
7:04 am PST, Dec 3,
Stewart Grant, United Kingdom
# 306:
8:14 am PST, Nov 30,
Dave McLaren, United Kingdom
# 305:
8:51 am PST, Nov 22,
Marie McMillan, United Kingdom
# 304:
1:12 pm PST, Nov 21,
Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 303:
10:29 am PST, Nov 21,
Amanda Symington, United Kingdom
# 302:
1:42 pm PST, Nov 20,
Katie Sutherland, United Kingdom
# 301:
3:39 am PST, Nov 20,
Kellie Gray, Australia
# 300:
2:38 pm PST, Nov 19,
Iona Macfarlane Kidd, United Kingdom
Help this to STOP!! Life is far too precious to lose due to the stupidity of careless drivers x
Help this to STOP!! Life is far too precious to lose due to the stupidity of careless drivers x
# 299:
2:08 am PST, Nov 19,
Yvonne Nooy, Netherlands
Of course I will sign this. This cruelty must stop! No driving with a mobile phone at you ear!
Of course I will sign this. This cruelty must stop! No driving with a mobile phone at you ear!
# 298:
5:58 am PST, Nov 18,
L Tyrer, United Kingdom
# 297:
12:58 pm PST, Nov 17,
Debbie Milligan, United Kingdom
# 296:
5:55 am PST, Nov 17,
James Love, United Kingdom
We don’t give out firearms licences to anyone without sufficient cause and background checks, responsibility for lethal weapons is part of the duty of ownership. Yet the damage and devastation caused through careless and thoughtless driving is often overlooked by the owner of a driving licence who is in charge of another more readily available lethal weapon.
We don’t give out firearms licences to anyone without sufficient cause and background checks, responsibility for lethal weapons is part of the duty of ownership. Yet the damage and devastation caused through careless and thoughtless driving is often overlooked by the owner of a driving licence who is in charge of another more readily available lethal weapon.
# 295:
5:23 am PST, Nov 17,
Sean Rooney, United Kingdom
# 294:
5:20 am PST, Nov 15,
Kieran Armstrong, United Kingdom
my cousin and great friend have suffered due to a road death and the loss of a loving daughter,nobody should have to go through what they did.
my cousin and great friend have suffered due to a road death and the loss of a loving daughter,nobody should have to go through what they did.
# 293:
12:55 am PST, Nov 15,
Kelsey Adderton, United Kingdom
# 292:
10:48 am PST, Nov 12,
Margaret Paddock, Arizona
I couldn't bear to think I hurt or killed anyone because I was careless!
I couldn't bear to think I hurt or killed anyone because I was careless!
# 291:
9:03 am PST, Nov 11,
Robert Auld, United Kingdom
I believe that there should be legislation brought in to allow members of the public to capture drivers using mobile phones on camera and pass the evidence on to the authorities ,i think this threat of public intervention would make offenders think twice about using moby,s while behind the wheel.
I believe that there should be legislation brought in to allow members of the public to capture drivers using mobile phones on camera and pass the evidence on to the authorities ,i think this threat of public intervention would make offenders think twice about using moby,s while behind the wheel.
# 290:
6:48 am PST, Nov 9,
Alan Smith, United Kingdom
It still remains a major concern that a significant number of drivers are persisting to use mobile phones while driving.
It still remains a major concern that a significant number of drivers are persisting to use mobile phones while driving.
# 289:
6:42 am PST, Nov 8,
Sandra Milligan, United Kingdom
Why do the Government and police accross the country impose a fine and points on your licence if you are caught using your phone on the roads? They are NEVER out and about to impose the law. It's about time MORE police were on the roads to stop the many drivers who are such a hazard on the roads and to also pull over drivers who do not stop at traffic lights when they can see it is turning to red and for just pulling out at junctions and not stopping at give way signs. The so called LAW seems to be a law unto themselves and does NOT bother doing what it is paid to do. The Law MUST be inforced because as it stands, it isn't worth having anymore.
Why do the Government and police accross the country impose a fine and points on your licence if you are caught using your phone on the roads? They are NEVER out and about to impose the law. It's about time MORE police were on the roads to stop the many drivers who are such a hazard on the roads and to also pull over drivers who do not stop at traffic lights when they can see it is turning to red and for just pulling out at junctions and not stopping at give way signs. The so called LAW seems to be a law unto themselves and does NOT bother doing what it is paid to do. The Law MUST be inforced because as it stands, it isn't worth having anymore.
# 288:
6:26 am PST, Nov 7,
Marilyn McLaughlin, United Kingdom
# 287:
8:35 am PST, Nov 5,
Lynsey Barclay, United Kingdom
# 286:
1:35 am PST, Nov 3,
Alexis McGoldrick, United Kingdom
# 285:
8:27 am PST, Nov 2,
Lisa Wilson, United Kingdom
# 284:
2:10 pm PST, Nov 1,
Nita Saini, United Kingdom
There was a death just last week of a little boy in my local area. It was on a cross road that has traffic lights. There's not even a pedestrian crossing on this cross road, its a major route for children on their way to the local school. The road is supposed to be a 20 mph limit. What has happen to make this safer for the public? Yes totally agree that the roads need to be made safer, your doing a great job at making people more aware of this KDS. Thankyou. Kind Regards, Nita
There was a death just last week of a little boy in my local area. It was on a cross road that has traffic lights. There's not even a pedestrian crossing on this cross road, its a major route for children on their way to the local school. The road is supposed to be a 20 mph limit. What has happen to make this safer for the public? Yes totally agree that the roads need to be made safer, your doing a great job at making people more aware of this KDS. Thankyou. Kind Regards, Nita
# 283:
2:03 pm PDT, Oct 23,
Caroline Chapple, United Kingdom
# 282:
5:13 am PDT, Oct 22,
Ally Wilson, United Kingdom
children are our future we have to protect them
children are our future we have to protect them
# 281:
12:25 pm PDT, Sep 26,
Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin
# 280:
9:06 am PDT, Sep 22,
Kerry Stainsby, United Kingdom
I have been an Advanced Driving Instructor for 5 years now & I put this message across to my pupils old & young every day of the week. Everytime someone gets behind a wheel they must remember they are in control of a machine that can hurt or kill. You have to be responsible. Too many people think that just because they have passed their driving test the training ends there! Would you do your job for 10 years with out taking additional training? NO, driving is no different. Take responsibility, be safe & drive with consideration for others.
I have been an Advanced Driving Instructor for 5 years now & I put this message across to my pupils old & young every day of the week. Everytime someone gets behind a wheel they must remember they are in control of a machine that can hurt or kill. You have to be responsible. Too many people think that just because they have passed their driving test the training ends there! Would you do your job for 10 years with out taking additional training? NO, driving is no different. Take responsibility, be safe & drive with consideration for others.
# 279:
6:09 am PDT, Sep 12,
Brittany Solak, Connecticut
# 278:
2:21 pm PDT, Sep 9,
Laraine Cornthwaite, United Kingdom
Anything, just anything to raise awareness and help save precious lives and the heartbreak of those left with a life changing experience or for those who just are left behind. It is better to be late in this life than early in the next!
Anything, just anything to raise awareness and help save precious lives and the heartbreak of those left with a life changing experience or for those who just are left behind. It is better to be late in this life than early in the next!
# 277:
12:14 pm PDT, Sep 9,
Maxine Russell, United Kingdom
having travelled up and down the A9 for the past two years-I have seen some horrific driving- anything that can be done to make our roads safer is very worthwhile
having travelled up and down the A9 for the past two years-I have seen some horrific driving- anything that can be done to make our roads safer is very worthwhile
# 276:
9:18 am PDT, Sep 9,
Paula Smith, United Kingdom
# 275:
7:43 am PDT, Sep 9,
Kerry Trainer, United Kingdom
# 274:
7:40 am PDT, Sep 9,
Ian Gillies, United Kingdom
# 273:
7:38 am PDT, Sep 9,
Anne Scullion, United Kingdom
# 272:
7:36 am PDT, Sep 9,
Helen Trainer, United Kingdom
# 271:
7:31 am PDT, Sep 9,
Alec Gibson, United Kingdom
# 270:
7:26 am PDT, Sep 9,
Jenna Barnes, United Kingdom
# 269:
7:24 am PDT, Sep 9,
IAN Thomson, United Kingdom
# 268:
7:22 am PDT, Sep 9,
John Smith, United Kingdom
# 267:
7:21 am PDT, Sep 9,
Linda Rodden, United Kingdom
# 266:
7:19 am PDT, Sep 9,
Fraser Cairns, United Kingdom
# 265:
10:53 am PDT, Sep 3,
Eddy Cummins, United Kingdom
only 2 weeks ago while on the A9 to inverness, to see a very special person, i noticed a car on swerve onto my side of the road coming straight for me, i think either the driver was drunk or had fallen asleep at the wheel. only that i was very alert to swerve onto the wrong side of the road to miss that car, i then needed to swerve immediatly back onto my side of the road to miss the cars which were behind the car that nearly hit me. could have been nasty!!
only 2 weeks ago while on the A9 to inverness, to see a very special person, i noticed a car on swerve onto my side of the road coming straight for me, i think either the driver was drunk or had fallen asleep at the wheel. only that i was very alert to swerve onto the wrong side of the road to miss that car, i then needed to swerve immediatly back onto my side of the road to miss the cars which were behind the car that nearly hit me. could have been nasty!!
# 264:
1:41 pm PDT, Aug 31,
Jennifer MacIver, United Kingdom
Think...
Think...
# 263:
2:43 am PDT, Aug 31,
L RANKIN, United Kingdom
# 262:
2:23 am PDT, Aug 31,
Nicola McLean, United Kingdom
# 261:
11:51 pm PDT, Aug 26,
Jim Leggatt, United Kingdom
# 260:
6:13 am PDT, Aug 21,
Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 259:
7:09 pm PDT, Aug 20,
Marjorie Bolam, United Kingdom
# 258:
11:22 am PDT, Aug 20,
Michelle ann Stuart, United Kingdom
# 257:
9:40 am PDT, Aug 20,
Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 256:
1:52 am PDT, Aug 20,
Sharron Campbell, United Kingdom
# 255:
7:44 am PDT, Aug 10,
Al Russell, United Kingdom
i drive for a living and am disgusted by the amount of drivers usually 4x4 drivers and usually women who show a total disregard for the law
i drive for a living and am disgusted by the amount of drivers usually 4x4 drivers and usually women who show a total disregard for the law
# 254:
3:25 pm PDT, Jul 29,
Lesley 20, United Kingdom
There must be stricter penalties for using mobile phones when driving.Personally I think all speed limits should be lowered.
There must be stricter penalties for using mobile phones when driving.Personally I think all speed limits should be lowered.
# 253:
2:20 pm PDT, Jul 29,
Doreen Scerri, Malta
# 252:
1:11 pm PDT, Jul 29,
Chris Patterson, United Kingdom
# 251:
12:51 pm PDT, Jul 29,
Sharon Wilmot, United Kingdom
