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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: SPEED BUMPS :@ |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 23:02
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| Are these any help?? Cause more problems than they're worth?? The reason I've raised this, is after today, visiting my dad, I was travelling home on my motorbike when I was going for the gap in the middle of the bumps on a corner but misjudged it and hit the bump, this caused my throttle to open sli... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: 20MPH zones |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 04:01
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Replies: 29
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| Ahh, our old friends the speed humps, always good to slow down ambulances and emergency vehicles.. It's amazing, I read a short time back about a child being ran over and killed, was it by an ambulance?? NO, an emergency vehicle?? NO, by me in my car that I pay my hard earned cash to maintain?? NO, ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Nasty motorway crash |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 03:55
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| Yeah it does, but it's nearly 4am so stuff it :) About the cutting up, I'm usually a victim of it, I'm in a coach which is restricted to 62mph, I get the erm.. elderly and erm.. over careful? drivers in the inside lane slowing down trucks that are limited to 56mph so I obviously have to overtake the... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Nasty motorway crash |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 03:31
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Replies: 44
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| There should be far more ads around about stopping distances (and should also hammer home the fact that you'd be held liable for running into the back of someone). The only one I've seen is some unofficial ad from the RAC. However, even when the stopping distances are marked out, most drivers still... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Drivin' In The Rain |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 03:27
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| Well isn't the advice to keep 4 seconds behind the car in front in wet weather rather than the usual 2? I don't know whether that's entirely necessary in all but the most torrential conditions. I find in bad weather I just adapt automatically, ease off the throttle a little until I feel comfortable... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Car cams will improve road safety |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 02:47
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Replies: 94
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| On motorways, for example, 50mph limits are put up because workmen are only three or four feet away from passing traffic, and many are killed every year by cars that inadvertently crash through bollards, etc. All of these limits are put there for a reason - you may not see any workmen out while you... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Car cams will improve road safety |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 02:08
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| I'd also be more than happy for the police to fit cameras to my car and to monitor everything I do while driving, if they would prosecute everybody who broke the law while I was out driving. The number of times I've said to myself 'I wish I had a carcam installed so I could get that ***tard arreste... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Car cams will improve road safety |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 01:45
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| I do hope you're all worried, as this technology WILL become commonplace, and you WILL be caught every time you go out. So.. HOW exactly are you gonna get me done for tailgaiting?? I'm on a motorbike with no front numberplate, wearing a helmet and if I'm tailgaiting, it's probably because the frick... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Car cams will improve road safety |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 01:18
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| Show me ONE image from a game, a STILL image too (so it doesn't even have to move realistically) of a car with a driver that looks realistic! Show me ONE image of a person's FACE alone, a STILL image, from a game, that looks like a real face! Ever see the movie or game of Final Fantasy?? Sometimes ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: What If - windscreen... yikes! |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 00:17
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| I had one a few years back. En route to work on the M6, I came up behind a lorry that I quickly realised was dropping stones. I suddenly realised 2 were coming at me and swerved half into the next lane (without looking :shock: fortunately no one there) These 2 stones hit the middle of the screen at... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: M60 Bredbury |
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:15
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| I think the accidents in the Anti-Clockwise direction aren't caused by the slip road joining the outside lane (which I admit is bad when I join it in a bus with a top speed of 50mph and won't reach it in that distance anyway)... But I think it's the slight bump where the inside lane goes off on its ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: 20MPH zones |
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:34
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Replies: 29
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| Should these be 20mph 24hrs a day, 7 days a week?? Opinions please.. (don't know how to do a poll) Should they exist at all?? If it's only safe to do 20mph, people should only do 20mph, 30mph is MAX speed limit assuming it's SAFE. Should there just be warning signs, ie, Children, OAP's, School, Play... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: M60 Bredbury |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:33
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| I'm all for warning people that it's a sharp corner, by all means ADVISE 50mph (and I've been told that skip trucks can only do 50mph round this corner) but don't enforce it as a 50mph zone, that makes it more dangerous on an average day than people speeding.. I've never yet seen an accident there (... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Filtering safety on a motorcycle |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:15
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Replies: 22
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| I do this, it's my right and my privalige, I'm riding a bike in English weather for reasons of a) being able to have a precise time from a to b (subject to accidents and road closures) and b) being able to get there faster than a car. It's also law?? that you are not aloud to deliberately slow other... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Flashing brake lights: effective against rear-end collisions |
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 03:38
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| I like the sound of progress bar, people are used to them now (thanks Microsoft), I'd personally use it the way mentioned.. ie.. 2 normal brake lights, 1 centre brake light, 2 progress bars working their way from outside of car towards centre brake light (so as to distinguish between different size ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: What if...? |
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 02:31
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| Personally.. I'd try my damndest to get infront of it, because if you're doing any sort of speed and you're behind a truck that's about to tip, then there's gonna be debris and possibly some of his load coming your way FAST.. if you can get 1 lane over safely, do so, but do so with your foot welded ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Driving over hatchings? |
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 02:12
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Replies: 39
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| I failed a motorcycle test (my 1st) for NOT going through the hatchings.. It was approaching a + junction with lights and I was asked to turn right at the lights, the lane had a triangle hatchings leading into a right turn lane, and the inside then became straight on and left. I sat in the traffic i... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: M60 Bredbury |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 02:07
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| There's a right hand bend on the M60 motorway (clockwise) near the Bredbury turn off that used to be recommended limit 50mph, but now has a speed limit sign 50mph, and camera warning signs.. I've taken this corner in many vehicles from arctic's, coaches, cars and motorcycles in most conditions and f... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Bike Safety Campaign on A34 |
| waynedl |
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 01:54
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| Hi, new to the forum, although I've been a regular visitor to the site for a year or more now.. Anyway, 1 thing I find with camera's, signs, flowers etc.. is that whilst people are looking at those, they're not lookin' forward, in their mirrors or checking their blind spots.. Just mo.. but maybe if ... |
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