Quiz time: It is a very foggy night and you are walking home from the train station. You need to cross a road that you cannot even see the other side of do you a) check that you are wearing black from head to toe, b) cross at a normal slow pace, c) ignore the crossing only 5 metres away or d) all of the above ?

If you even considered answering a-d then you would be having to pay road idiot road tax and insurance under my new scheme.

I very nearly put to such idiots out of their misery a few days ago whilst driving home. I was a quivering wreck by the time I pulled up on the drive way. They rely on good drivers to keep them safe on the road so by my book they should be helping to foot the bill for road tax and insurance. If I had knocked one of them down both our lives would never have been the same again but it would be me quite literally paying for it – well and you as a humble tax payer.

So the only solution is to have a pedestrian license, tax and insurance scheme. i.e anyone that wants to use the roads should have to cough up, why do just car owners have to pay to drive safely on the roads. We have all proven that cars, bikes, pedestrians aren’t equal on the roads so lets level it out a bit and have us all on the things on the same basis, tested and adequately paid up for. Maybe then all the idiots that put everyone at risk might take a bit of responsibility and cross safely rather than blame us good motorist for not second guessing that they are going to step right out in front of us.