Action plan to cut carnage

The county council's strategic environmental services select committee was told that after a 'good' year in 2004, total numbers worsened considerably.

And the total of 476 serious accidents in 2007 was significantly above the county target of 395.

Members of the committee related their own personal experiences involving motor-cycle fatalities.

Chairman Cllr Phillip Coote said he was greatly affected by what he saw.

He was driving round a corner when he saw a motor-cyclist who had passed him about a minute before lying on the side of the road.

"I tended him, and he literally died as he was talking to me," said Cllr Coote.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette July 2