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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Drug driving advert.. |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 22:37
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I'm not condoning anything here, but this:
Lancs Telegraph wrote: Research conducted for the campaign found that one in five drivers killed in road accidents may have an impairing drug in their system.
sounds like a bogus statistic to me. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: National Speed Limit to be cut to 50 mph |
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 14:33
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Replies: 85
Views: 34835
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| A 50mph NSL and loads of cameras is likely to make road casualty figures worse. The cameras will almost certainly be located on the safest stretches of road where the number of violations (and hence fines revenue) is expected to be the highest. Many people who are forced to slow down on these safe s... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: phobia of SPEED CAMERAS |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 05:46
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Replies: 7
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I can completely understand how fear of our oppressive, ever-watching Police state could trigger a phobia focussed on the symbols of that state (in this case, Speed Cameras).
I reckon that cases such as this are likely to become more widespread. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Motorist quizzed for laughing |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 05:37
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Replies: 10
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| What a complete and utter bell end. I sincerely hope that this is a one-off. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: National Speed Limit to be cut to 50 mph |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 05:30
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| Oh come on. We all know that this is nothing to do with road safety policy. It is about having an excuse to roll out ANPR technology nationwide to track our every movement. Agreed. And they will have a renewed wave of fines revenue to help pay for it... Would everyone please sign the petition prote... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Halting car-crime, or encouraging it |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 09:12
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Absolutely insane. Another aspect is this...
I look out of the window and see someone peering into all the cars down my street.. Is it a thief? should I confront him? or maybe call the Police?
Nahh, it's probably just one of those PCSOs doing a sticker run. I'll leave him be... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Email Law 'Attack on civil liberty' |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 00:36
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Replies: 19
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| The Home Office said the data would be useful for combating crime. Why do the people keep falling for this same line over and over again? Yet again, criminals will either find ways of avoiding detection, or will simply make greater use of stolen identities. Meanwhile, the new powers will be used by... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Right to Repair |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 04:56
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Replies: 33
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| One thing that site doesn't say is what exactly is changing that will make independent repair harder/impossible/illegal? Is there some new legislation due or something? Current EU legislation obliges manufacturers to provide technical information (including those all-important ECU login codes) to i... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Traffic Calming = Toll Roads |
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 03:48
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Replies: 18
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| Great post Brossen99. Some good points raised there. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Motorists face fines and points for minor accidents |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 13:22
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Replies: 4
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| "Making careless driving a fixed penalty offence will help the police to enforce against bad drivers who admit fault with a minimum of bureaucracy..." As a result of this ridiculous scheme, far less drivers will be willing to admit fault for minor bumps, for fear of the points. This will ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speeding tickets on Marlow Hill down by 80 per cent |
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 09:04
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| Having 6 points on my licence for 38mph and 39mph on Marlow hill, you can imagine my fury when they increased the limit. I am not surprised that the limit increase has not resulted in more accidents. The old 30mph limit was not safety motivated - it was a pure revenue raiser. The road, which is on a... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Ban lorries from the roads during rush hour |
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 03:19
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Replies: 38
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| Many thanks to everyone for their responses. My intention with this one was just to "put an idea out there" to see what came back. I'm not an expert in logistics by any means, but I can appreciate that the economic cost of disrupting the flow of goods (particularly perishable ones) from so... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Girl, 14, killed by speeding driver listening to her iPod |
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 03:00
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Replies: 26
Views: 10857
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| I'm actually surprised that no-one has called for a knee-jerk 20mph limit on the road concerned. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Hands-free phone driver convicted |
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:14
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Replies: 36
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| I really don't like this whole situation where the Law says it's OK to do something, but if you have an accident while doing it, the punishment is more severe than if you had an accident while not doing it (regardless of whether or not a causal link is proved between the activity and the accident) I... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Vehicle Tax - Persecution of those with physical problems |
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 06:00
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Replies: 20
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The 2008 VED changes are just another stealth tax.
The Government don't want you to buy a "greener" car. They don't want you to use your car less. They don't give a stuff about the environment. They just want your money. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: 'Useless' green levy on drivers rakes in £4bn |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 19:57
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| It's funny how they can find an extra 50billion to help out banks . And fight pointless forign wars! And fund the EUSSR! And pay countless lazy Chav slobs to stay at home, completely reliant on Government benefits (A great way of guranteeing votes!) And pay £billions to IT Consultancy firms for Owe... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: She was illegally parked.. thug vandalised .. |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 09:44
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Replies: 12
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| I would have vandalised their property in retribution. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Will the UK Housing market crash? |
| antera309 |
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 09:27
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Replies: 23
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| There will be sharp correction in property prices. There is no doubt about it. The property market simply isn't conducive to "soft landings". When people see their next eggs start to erode, they will naturally start selling up to maximise their profits. It is this which will precipitate th... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Drivers 'hit by three million holes in roads' |
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 08:10
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Replies: 8
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| War planes, Warships, Bombs, Rockets, Submarines etc etc etc...... Please don't hate me for this, but the Government spending our money on these things doesn't bother me so much. At least they are helping motorists in that they are being used to secure the fuel supply (sad, but true) What really ge... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: A new type of speed camera ? |
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 07:58
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Replies: 5
Views: 3342
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| I have seen these too - they seem to have replaced the red light cameras that were there previously. Dual purpose devices? Next time I go past I'll stop in the layby and get some pics. |
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