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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A new way of indicating on roundabouts |
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:44
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Replies: 32
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| Over the years I've found that less and less people are indicating at roundabouts. I suspect one of the reasons may be the over-engineering of so many roundabouts. By this I mean traffic lights in roundabouts and excessive lane markings on the roundabout. That is, when people come up to many roundab... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Depressing BBC report |
| maverick808 |
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 18:52
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Replies: 1
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Blanket 20 limits for London residential areas? |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 01:18
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Replies: 22
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| You're right to question that. What they actually mean is, "Britain's annual 3,100 road death toll would be cut by two-thirds to around 1,000 a year if all residential areas had 20mph limits that were genuinely enforced." Totally agree. Just like accident rates are much lower where they e... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Sneaky. Manchester Drive but NOT SAFE |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 23:12
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Replies: 15
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| Whilst I am against speed cameras I generally don't have a problem with red light cameras. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Smoker Wars Episode MMCXXVII: Attack of the roads ministry |
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:18
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Replies: 22
Views: 11432
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: P&J, 13th August 2007 |
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 17:44
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| Amazing. Best wishes for a full and quick recovery. And thanks for your continued efforts and commitment. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Structure diagram |
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:28
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Replies: 19
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| I don't think going after something like UML is necessary here, and would probably hurt more than help if this is to be shown to the general public. The diagrams look similar to ones I've seen in magazines that, whilst not following any standardised notations (that the general public wouldn't unders... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Structure diagram |
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 09:41
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| I am extremely familiar with structure diagrams and constantly find them useful myself in my own job. However, while this particular diagram is great to clarify how arguments connect and as a reminder for discussion I wouldn't like it to be released along with any PR. To the general member of the pu... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Followed in a marked car, but not stopped |
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:03
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Replies: 12
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freddieflintoff2005 wrote: I assume it was dark at the time?
Haha, it was early summer evening and very bright. I meant they didn't have their blue flashing lights and sirens of course. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Followed in a marked car, but not stopped |
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 17:04
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Replies: 12
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| You don't have anything to worry about. If he didn't stop you on the road then you're not getting anything. Slightly related story. One time I was doing 60 in a 50 on a completely empty dual carriageway and a marked car flew up behind me at about 90-100 without his lights on. I slowed down to 50 and... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: ECHR Result: Case Lost |
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 20:38
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Replies: 63
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| Only time will tell if the DIS/Speed Awares are working and perhaps they are playing part in the marginal annual improvements nationwide. Our 'marginal annual improvement' is a mere shadow of what it ought to be from the vehicle safety improvements alone. The 'true baseline' (i.e. before policy eff... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Government response to 'Scrap Speed Cameras' petition |
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 01:04
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Replies: 36
Views: 23936
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| Yes Paul, but much as I applaud your diligence, the message is only diminished if it contains typos, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors - as sadly is all too often the case. Proofread it. You know, Paul is basically doing all this himself. Writing a plethora of press releases, doing interview... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: News and Star, 26th June 2007 |
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 16:53
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| But Steve Callaghan, safety camera manager for Cumbria police, disputed the suggestion that the work of his department was a waste of resources. He said: “The Safety Camera Partnership hasn’t impacted on any police time at all as we don’t use police officers to do our enforcement. “Our staff are po... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Absolutely Barmy |
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 00:51
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Replies: 35
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| This topic isn't about news. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speeding motorist 'faked death' |
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 20:06
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Replies: 6
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| She has a provisional licence, but the article makes it seem like she was driving on her own at the time, and that she has done so many times in the past. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speeding motorist 'faked death' |
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 19:48
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Replies: 6
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| I don't see any mention of a ban or any endorsement of her licence... so I take it she's still on the road. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: A tragic accident? |
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 05:46
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Replies: 21
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| It's also a little strange that the lorry (limited to 56mph) was starting to undertake the Clio. And it's also strange that the Clio driver said the lorry was alongside, then going backwards. This is more inclined to imply that the lorry 'aborted the undertake' to pull out behind the Clio - in that... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Daily Express, 23rd January 2007 |
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 00:20
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| Just for the record, I hate the idea of legislating handsfree phones out of cars. Like with anything, if you don't take responsibility for your actions you can make a dog's dinner of it and cause an accident. But this goes for: - picking your nose - looking at a passenger while conversing - looking... |
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Forum: Polls Topic: http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11831 |
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 20:22
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: [VIDEO] how not to tow a car |
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 02:30
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| That one activated simply because they hadn't bothered to turn the ignition on all the way. The long version of the video (not linked) shows them being towed at speeds of up to 50mph on the equivalent of a single carriageway B road, weaving all over the place, thankfully there were only narrow corn... |
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