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Forum: General Chat Topic: Police quit rate soars |
| Blakey |
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:49
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| About one month ago a friend of mine was involved in a potentially serious road accident - what happened to him is, I think, a good example of the ‘policing by numbers’ policy. Briefly, he was proceeding normally along a straight bit of country road in North Shropshire. Another car joined the road f... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Who's Voting for Who in upcoming local elections? |
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 15:16
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Replies: 104
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| When you look at the damage the Tories did in the 80's and 90's ( for instance, manufacturing industry, the NHS and the rail service were probably all irrepar ... irreperabl ... er, badly damaged), and now Tony Blair's mob (well, what can you say ... ?). The result of too much power. So I've got thi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Mindless Puritans |
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 14:13
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Replies: 16
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| I've been out of circulation lately due to a stay in hospital ( the operation was successful, but the food almost saw me off!). I won't be driving for a while, and I'm actually feeling relieved about that. I used to regard driving as fun, but due to the current draconian automated speed enforcement ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: An entertaining half-hour |
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:46
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Replies: 602
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Even though you say you like speed cameras, Ling, I think I've fallen for you.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Legal limit on temperature of bath water? |
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:58
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Replies: 23
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| Sometime ago I joked, if the government passes laws penalising us for speeding, then why not extend the thinking to other “dangerous” things, such as, say, the maximum amount of heat we use in our houses? Well, it may well happen! On Jeremy Vine’s programme this lunchtime, there’s a New Labour MP pr... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Concentration |
| Blakey |
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:17
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Replies: 21
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Thanks for your kind comments, supertramp - much appreciated!
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Concentration |
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 15:12
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Replies: 21
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| There are several keys to safe driving. While driving along, the first has got to be observation. Observation for me has been like learning a foreign language. To do it well requires good instruction, effort, and lots of practice and experience. After a while it becomes second nature, and doesn’t re... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: take it to court |
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 00:05
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Replies: 164
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| I keep coming back to the “10mph” question. It is a fact that in just about every case I have seen where there has been a collision the driver will say that if he had been doing 10 MPH less there would not have been a collision. Fisherman has said this on more than one occasion. It seems odd to me t... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: take it to court |
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 15:46
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Replies: 164
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| It is a fact that in just about every case I have seen where there has been a collision the driver will say that if he had been doing 10 MPH less there would not have been a collision. Hmm ... I find that comment very interesting. What I would like to ask fisherman is - does the driver volunteer th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Non-safety reasons for setting speed limits lower than NSL? |
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 01:41
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Replies: 140
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| And surely the fact that RoSPA, an organisation with a vast collective experience of advanced drivers (they do after all decide what constitutes an "advanced driver" for their tests), advocates the use of speed cameras and speed limits as a road safety tool speaks volumes? They might do. But does t... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Why is it always speed? |
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 01:09
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| Train drivers not to pull out/overtake on blatantly dangerous roads. Couldn’t agree with you more, BlackadderTF! This reminds me of a recent near ‘near-miss’ I had on the A49 south of Shrewsbury, a section of highway I know very well. This is a difficult stretch of winding, rural, NSL single carria... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Non-safety reasons for setting speed limits lower than NSL? |
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 00:25
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| Just got back from various car journeys up and down the country. It's not pretty out there. I'm not at all surprised that the UK is falling behind, road safety-wise, compared with the rest of Europe. I am unimpressed by the ‘arguments’ put forward by ndp. ndp …. go out there and drive a couple of th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed restrictions in 'dormant' roadworks |
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 23:27
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Replies: 41
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| Were speed cameras introduced in great numbers as a consequence of traffic police funding problems, or have these funding problems occurred subsequently? Thats a false dillema, and besides, does it matter? Even if you had vastly greater resources than at present, there would still be circumstances ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed restrictions in 'dormant' roadworks |
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 18:18
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| In general I would say the possibility of on-the-spot enforcement by traffic police (maybe using covert cameras to determine speed) would be preferable to fixed enforcement by Gatso or SPECS. I do agree with that, but that takes up more resources that simply aren't there. What I want to ask ndp is:... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Peripheral vision for instruments? |
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 13:42
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| I absolutely agree with maverick 808. The only reason I check my speedo is so I can keep my licence, which I know is a daft state of affairs. The speedos on the buses I used to drive in the 80's and 90's were notoriously inaccurate and no-one took any notice of them. However I drove for 8years for t... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Peripheral vision for instruments? |
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 13:07
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| It's no good noting that the needle is in the right area of the dial, it must be read very accurately - to the nearest couple of MPH. Something I’ve noticed when I’m driving my wife’s Corsa - normally I don’t like driving the car because the speedo, around the crucial 30mph area is difficult to rea... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: "Police-camera-action" on t.v. now |
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 18:37
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| Yet another whitewash, going on about how speed kills etc etc. Switch on and be prepared to fume. I’ve been hearing so much about how “Speed Kills” it’s set me wondering. There was I thinking that “movement”, or to put it another way, “getting from (a) to (b)”, was an innocent, beneficial, every-da... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is there such a thing as a good speed camera? |
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 13:12
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Replies: 9
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| I think if the policy had been at the outset to site speed cameras carefully at a limited number of key places, then there might have been a point. It’s been the wholesale, willy nilly expansion of speed cameras that has undermined their usefulness. There’s one close to the entrance/exit of our loca... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed restrictions in 'dormant' roadworks |
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:22
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Replies: 41
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| mark-w-jones wrote :My options seemed to be to 'go with the flow' or to create a moving chicane by slowing to 40mph. [/quote] I’ve been in the same situation several times on the M6 during the last 2 months. I’ve tried both methods. My worst experiences were:- -Got flashed by a scamera while keeping... |
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