According to a report in the Manchester Evening News a police Transit van, responding to a 999 call, lost control upon hitting a speed hump in Ashby Close, Bolton, causing it to become airborne. The van then hit an oncoming car, and crashed into a garden where it hit six people who were standing in the garden, including a 8 year old boy.
 
ABD Spokesman Nigel Humphries said

"It is only by some miracle that no-one was killed here. We need to get away from the simplistic notion that speed humps make roads safer, they do not, they often make them more dangerous."

The ABD has compiled a comprehensive list of problems associated with speed humps, and some forward thinking local authorities such as the London Borough of Barnet have already begun removing them. Yet in other areas they are still being installed with no thought whatsoever for the consequences.
 
ABD Chairman Brian Gregory added:

"Speed humps are nothing more than inverted pot holes, they are a danger to all road users. As long ago as the early 70's a woman cyclist was killed in Swindon when a speed hump caused her to fall and be hit by a vehicle — that speed hump was subsequently removed. Yet when the government thought people had forgotten about this tragedy, they started installing them again."