Daylight Savings Time 2009 Fall Back Deadly for London Roads?

The Daylight Savings Time 2009 fall back has happened most everywhere. But the Daylight Savings Time 2009 fall back is still a week away here. In the past, the Daylight Savings Time 2009 fall back would have already happened in America. However, since 2007, the U.S. has literally alerted time so that the Daylight Savings Time 2009 fall back will happen a week later. The benefits of moving Daylight Savings Time back are still to be determined, but the idea may catch on in other countries.

In 2007, Congress moved the Daylight Savings Time fall back to the first Sunday of November, rather than the last Sunday of October. They also moved the "spring ahead" part of Daylight Savings Time to the beginning of March, not April. Energy concerns and conservation were factors in the decision, but another country may want to do it for other reasons.

The Daylight Savings Time 2009 fall back has already arrived in Britain, and in most other countries this morning. But as it arrives, some in London are calling for a review in when the clocks are moved back, according to the Metro. In their case, protestors want the Daylight Savings Time fall back reviewed because the extra hour of darkness is deadly.

According to the Metro, once the evenings have gotten longer and darker, under the current Daylight Savings Time format, more pedestrians have gotten run over or killed on the roads. With darker evenings, it is harder for people on the road to see pedestrians, many of which could be playing children.

Campaigners called "Living Streets" have been lobbying for changes in the Daylight Savings Time fall back time, to improve road safety. But they will not get their wish this year, at the least. Therefore, they will likely keep an eye on the road to see how many more people are struck and killed this time after Daylight Savings.

America and the European Union are clearly not shy about altering time, in regards to Daylight Savings - or "summer time" as Europe calls it. Still, in the United States, people have to wait an extra week to get an extra hour of sleep, and lose an hour of sleep a lot sooner in spring. Here, they would probably not be too eager to change that rule after just a few years, even if America had the same problems with road safety as Britain.

For the Daylight Savings Time 2009 fall back, America is still in waiting, while London gets an early start to see how dangerous the new winter times are.

Sources

Metro- "Clocks go back, campaigners protest at end to British Summer Time"

SEE News- "Europe's Daylight Saving ends on October 25, 2009"