Are older drivers more dangerous?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Could the cut in winter fuel payments cost thousands of lives? Is it really true that criminals sentenced to three years will be out of prison in two months? Are older drivers more dangerous than young ones? Do Southeastern Railway shift 50 million leaves from their lines?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford Reporters: Bethan Ashmead Latham and Nathan Gower Producer: Natasha Fernandes Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:34.6 | Hello and welcome to the last in a marathon series of more or less. |
| 0:39.8 | We hit the wall about two weeks ago and have been crying and eating jelly babies ever since. the |
| 0:45.0 | Wall about two weeks ago and have been crying and eating jelly babies ever since. This week, the Labour Party of 2017 |
| 0:47.0 | criticized the Conservative Party of 2017 |
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| 0:55.2 | winter fuel payments. Stay with me. That criticism was based on research showing |
| 1:00.5 | that winter fuel payments save thousands of lives, |
| 1:03.5 | but do the numbers stack up. |
| 1:05.5 | Is it really true that criminals sentenced to three years |
| 1:09.0 | will be out in two months? |
| 1:11.0 | Are elderly drivers vastly more dangerous than those in the prime of life and |
| 1:17.4 | Southeastern Railway are boasting that they're shifting 50 million leaves from |
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