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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: All UK Car Journeys To Be Monitored |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 13:58
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Replies: 33
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| http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece This really, really boils my piss. ⋅ Firstly, the sheer bloody audacity and pigheadedness of an administration that thinks that this sort of thing is alright. ⋅ Secondly, the sheer bloody idiocy of an administration tha... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Saw dangerous overtake yesterday, who's fault? |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 13:50
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Replies: 28
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I dunno whether I read it here or on PH, but a very good rule of thumb when considering whether to commit to an overtaking manoeuvre is "would I do this in front of a police officer?"
If the answer in my head is "no", I stay put and await a better opportunity. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Motorway driving and speeds |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 09:20
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Replies: 49
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| mpaton said I now drive a BMW 545i, which in your terms is "a decent car". My viewpoint hasn't changed. I have just come back from a journey in which I have seen at least 4 drivers doing at least 70mph on a dark 30mph limit. Why do they think this is safe? why did you think it was unsafe ? Because:... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Tailgating |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:22
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Replies: 80
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| Apologies - I realise this is an old topic... What are the recommended methods for dealing with tailgaters, when it's not practical to move over a lane. Some friends say they "will just slam their brakes on as it's the vehicle behinds fault" while others say they just gradually reduce their speed, ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Whose fault would this accident have been? |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 14:16
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Replies: 6
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Oscar wrote: Happens every day on the A19 Tees flyover 
Do you mean the A66/A19 intersection, AKA The Wacky Races? |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M6 Wrong Way 140 mph Crash Horror! |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 08:53
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Replies: 29
Views: 11941
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| Firstly, there may or may not be message signs on the stretch of motorway in question. The signs cannot display free text; there's a specific and approved set of messages, one of which is "ONCOMING VEHICLE". The signals were set to 20 presumably in the hope of reducing the closing speed of the rogu... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M6 Wrong Way 140 mph Crash Horror! |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 07:47
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Replies: 29
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| Firstly, there may or may not be message signs on the stretch of motorway in question. The signs cannot display free text; there's a specific and approved set of messages, one of which is "ONCOMING VEHICLE". The signals were set to 20 presumably in the hope of reducing the closing speed of the rogue... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Thought Experiment |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 23:15
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Replies: 4
Views: 2544
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Fit tachographs to the cars owned by the members of T2000 and Brake.
Observe said members in paroxysms of post-hoc rationalisation as they desperately try to justify the occasions on which they inevitably drift over the limit. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Things I Don't Understand |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 23:19
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Replies: 45
Views: 24183
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| "Sporty Front Fog Lights" It is mostly people with naff cars, BMW's or people carriers :?: who feel the need to put them on. I have front fog lights, I don't turn them on cos I feel like a C@ck with them on if it is not foggy. Well, I dunno about the people carriers or BMWs. It's exclusively the Fr... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Things I Don't Understand |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 14:31
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Replies: 45
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| Fog lights are annoying because they're so low down, that on a dual-carriageway or motorway, you can see the oncoming traffic's fogs under the armco. Headlights are, for the most part, obscured by said armco. That, and they do not look at all, in least, remotely sporty. Bloody Ford. "Sporty Front Fo... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Taming the 'nearly reckless' |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 14:17
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Replies: 19
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| Nevertheless they are extremely important because they are probably responsible for 60% of all crashes. Ooh, dangerous talk here, Paul. Echoes of the Department of Guesswork. Nor does it sit comfortably with, for instance... Leeming's hypothesis that drivers are, generally, not to blame for most pr... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: TRL595 - very important news |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 13:55
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Replies: 29
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Ernest Marsh wrote: There were two matrix's lit with 30, and NO obvious cause for ANY possible alarm on the northbound carriageway.
With no leading 50s?
That sounds very, very wrong to me. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Closure of Motorways after simple RTAs |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 06:45
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Replies: 37
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| I reckon the police must get sick and bloody tired of having to re-open motorways after inattentive (or whatever) prats have caused the thing to be closed. Perhaps it would be better to direct our ire at the substandard driving of the muppets whose lack of proficiency caused the incident to happen ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Apparent camera-related accident on A1 northbound |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 20:59
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Replies: 23
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| I suppose you will apply the same theory of blameworthiness to me I if I sit on a stretch of road in a fully liveried police vehicle, and along comes Mr Numpty at warp factor one sees Police car slams on looses control and the same occurrs. i think you have to apply common sense and say if you are ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Apparent camera-related accident on A1 northbound |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 14:26
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Replies: 23
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| My point is that the driver wouldn't have had to apply the brakes at all if the camera was not present. The only reason this driver was placed in a position where he couldn't control his vehicle (I fully agree with and drive to COAST and also am aware of the capabilities of my vehicle; I do not disa... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Apparent camera-related accident on A1 northbound |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 08:12
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Replies: 23
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| Friday 7th Oct, between about 2 and 3PM, I think near Bramham. Blue Fiesta(?) with front end smashed in, just in line with the Gatso. Thankfully the driver seemed to be OK as he was talking to the BiB and no ambulance was in attendance. My theory is that he saw the camera too late, panic-braked and ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Driving advice from Toontown2000 |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 08:17
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Replies: 31
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| Holy moly, it's real! http://www.transport2000.org.uk/news/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=265 Further proof (as if it were needed) that T2000 doesn't really have a clue about road safety. 40MPH on a motorway that isn't completely empty would be suicidal, in my experience. BiBs, what's your p... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Justice? |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 20:35
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Replies: 91
Views: 36147
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| basingwerk, please answer the following very simple question: Have you ever exceeded a speed limit for any reason? My position is simple. Speed limits should be used as a mechanism for advising drivers of an appropriate speed for the average conditions on a given piece of road, and the final respons... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Vehicle activated signs |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 14:23
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Replies: 52
Views: 29419
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| QUEUE CAUTION and QUEUE AFTER/NEXT JUNCTION are messages set by the MIDAS system (Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling) which is triggered by the induction loops in the road. That message has flashers, and one of the reasons you see it and then don't encounter a queue is to do with ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Vehicle activated signs |
| Commander Jameson |
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 16:39
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Replies: 52
Views: 29419
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| MIDAS is good for stopping people driving at 70MPH into the back of a queue of traffic. Proper seperation distances and good observation would do this job better however! The 'Queue Caution' aren't so bad because it shouldn't require any additional action from a good driver because they are ready a... |
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