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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Zero drink drive limit for 17-20 year olds? |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 18:15
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| BBC News link Another knee jerk proposal with little thought. First of all (yet again) there is no mention of how many accidents occur caused by someone who is WITHIN the current limit. All I see is: Research shows that alcohol use increases the risk of a crash for young drives 2.5 times more than ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Hands-free phone driver convicted |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 23:52
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Replies: 36
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| To be honest, it really is a bit stupid to be on the phone, hands free of not, for that long. Nevertheless, was it actually PROVEN that him being on the phone caused the crash and not something else? He went into the back of a stationary vehicle without applying his brakes. Either he was looking th... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Hands-free phone driver convicted |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 22:28
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| To be honest, it really is a bit stupid to be on the phone, hands free of not, for that long. Nevertheless, was it actually PROVEN that him being on the phone caused the crash and not something else? |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Another 20mph blanket |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 18:40
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Replies: 28
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| This is Livingstoned land - what do we expect? Of course it'll probably cause more pollution (and let's not forget that includes CO2 :roll:) because cars are far less efficient at 20, and then every car will be charged £25 to drive through there because they're all "polluting so much". And... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Average Speed Cameras Proposed in London |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 20:51
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Replies: 3
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dudley wrote: I think this could be distracting and dangerous, but need some sound arguments against it happening.
That they probably wouldn't raise much money cause it's pretty darn hard to even reach 20 in London! |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Take Care on M60 -it's cracked up! |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 18:06
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Replies: 4
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| Manuelle Salathe, Highways Agency project manager, said: "We continuously monitor the condition of our network... Are they not responsible for the M271? That's had cracks and holes in for years. But it took them less than a month to replace the traffic light on the roundabout which had failed.... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Rumours of a drop in NSL |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 18:34
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| http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=478202. We are a bit late on this discussion, and it could be C+ ringing up the ABD posing as media.. but The ABD have received media enquiries over a DfT proposal, framed like this: 'Because of the cost of new speed limit signs under the 2006 ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving test age 'will be raised to 18' |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:34
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Replies: 38
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| <sigh> QFT. This is just another case of, "The answer's a bigger restriction. What's the question?" How about encouraging more use of pass plus and more lessons in general after taking the driving test? And how about encouraging better attitudes from those who feel like they can be boy ra... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Jim Fitzpatrick calls for zero drink drive law |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 00:35
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Replies: 46
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And when the government in 5 years time realises that this won't improve road safety, I'm sure they'll try speed limit cuts again. 
Has anyone noticed how emotion seems to be used the most with drink driving to get people to accept lower limits? |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: R2 Jeremy Vine: Middle Lane Morons |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 09:12
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| I bet they had a sticker saying "slow down and save a life" or something. I have actually heard people on the radio who say they drive in L3 at 70 to stop others breaking the speed limit. :loco: I'm pretty sure I've come across people before who are like that. The thing is, they don't rea... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: flood plains |
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:05
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Replies: 21
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| I've always wondered why we need more space for housing. Wouldn't it be better if existing houses (obviously the unoccupied ones) were turned into flats? Then we wouldn't need to keep looking at more countryside/flood plains to build on. And of course I agree with everyone above - that flood plains ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: 4x4 owners face more green parking charges |
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 14:45
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| Well, there are a couple that fit that band but they are wholly electric cars only (even the Pious is >100g). And what happens when, say 5-10 years down the line, average CO2 car emissions have dropped by 10%/20%/whatever? They'll just lower the bands to ensure they still get their income. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving age 'must increase to 18' |
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 22:59
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| The minimum driving age must be raised from 17 to 18 to stop young people "killing themselves and others" Novice drivers should be banned from carrying passengers aged between 10 and 20 late at night, the report adds. Under the proposed changes, people could start learning to drive at 17,... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: This country's losing the plot!!! More dogooders |
| madroaduser |
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:33
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| Obviously someone with his own web design company lives in Stanley Hill. Does anyone know this road and can comment on the appropriateness of the 30mph limit? According to website the 30 limit has only just been introduced and from looking at the photos on the main page it seems to me that 35-40 is... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Dutch experiment |
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 09:54
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| Yep, it's definitely been discussed here before. I've heard that it can reduce congestion as well. Anyway it should definitely be looked into more here. But sadly I suspect that the anti-car groups will no doubt try to stop it because it makes things nicer for motorists. Can't have that now, can we. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Britain's worst motorway junction challenge |
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:09
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Replies: 39
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| Anyone mentioned J15 M6 going north from the A500? very sweeping long tight curve. I remember that one too when I went to Uni up there a couple of years back. Was bad enough trying to get on the motorway with a 1.0 litre Mini - I'll never forget having to do 45 in 2nd to get enough acceleration! So... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: The Times, 3rd July 2007 |
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 08:55
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Quote: Police were alerted when Logue’s son boasted about his escape to a friend, who subsequently reported him.
What a lovely "friend" then. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: UK mulls drink-drive limit cut |
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 13:36
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| In my opinion reducing the limit 80 mg to 50 mg is probably not going to reduce casualities at all. We have little data in this area and changing policy on gut feeling would be wrong. I suppose we need to know the effect on casualities if we go to 50 mg ( or 0mg). Are drivers more or less likely to... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Times, 5 June 2007, Police chief calls for hidden cameras |
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 09:46
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| “ We need to discuss raising speed limits when people get used to adhering to the current ones” So is he one of those people who believe that if people are doing 40 in a 30 limit, they'll do 50 if the limit is raised to 40? “ We should be teaching 10 and 11-year-olds about their responsibilities wh... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: anyone know the Allesley by pass in Coventry? |
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 16:16
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Replies: 13
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| it's only approx 1 Mile long so WTF is going on?? Sounds to me like it's a speed limit reduction for "environmental" reasons - which these days is often seen as very noble, but of course like with other speed limit cuts, it'll mean more drivers focusing on their speedos and probably speed... |
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