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Forum: General Chat Topic: Faulty speedo gets driver banned |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 20:27
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| given that the Car was a Mercedes, i would guess that it was an Automatic, as Merc are not renowned for their manual gearboxes and the handbrake arrangement means you are unlikely to choose the manual |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: On a more serious, and practical, level... |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:07
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Replies: 19
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| not a great idea, the siren is likely to be used to wake up some dozey sod who hasn't seen the big van with the disco lights, now if it starts quietly people will assume it is further away than it is, |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Tispol anyone ? |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:30
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Replies: 7
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| "Inappropriate speed accounts for the majority of collissions on Warwicshire's road" IS THIS TRUE or is John Timmis being economical with the truth ? :) Richard Of course Inappropriate speed accounts for collision as the appropriate speed would have been one that avoided the collision, af... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The latest in Brunstrom Buffoonery |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 13:19
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Replies: 194
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| surely another point to raise, is that the Guy had been caught speeding, which if you believe Brunstrom is a dangerous act, and then later is involved in a high speed accident, now the obvious fact to take from this is that being caught by the camera had no effect, being pulled by a policeman may ha... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft' |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 13:24
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Replies: 38
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| I'm inclined to agree with Robin, that an unsecured network is effectively free for people to use, however if it is hacked or someone has gone out of their way to access it then it changes the nature of what is being done from accidental to deliberate |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Disabled To Be Charged For Parking |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 14:56
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Replies: 70
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| Birmingham is an interesting study Graham. The new Bullring opening, combined with the flooding of the centre with apartments, has dramatically changed things. Whereas previously people would park all over and shop in the whole city centre, now the majority aim for the Bullring by car, bus or train... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: MOT Petition |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 14:00
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Replies: 27
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| I have owned cars where seatbelt mountings where rusted out, this only showed up at MOT and had obviously happened in the year between MOTs, maybe a scaled MOT system is required, 4 years till first then every 2 years until failing on a safety critical system, thereafter yearly, cars over 10 years o... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Road pricing, more questions than answers.... |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 15:09
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| If the governments plan is to get high poluting cars of the road why don't they introduce Road Tax in such a way that any car bought AFTER the announcment is liable any that remain with their current owners remain at the previous tax price or go up by the same ammount as the rest of the other bands |
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Forum: Polls Topic: Queue or move? |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 14:37
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Replies: 91
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| not sure if this has been mentioned, but i would use lane 2 as on some occasions i have seen lane closeur warnings counting down only to find the closed lane is on the otherside of a roundabout, or that the signs are old and the restriction has gone |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Specs cameras and roadworks |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 14:49
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| the worst aspect of specs controlled zones is that they tend to create a blockage immediatley after rteh last camera as the more powerful lorries speed up to 56 and the less powerful trundle up meaning all non restricted traffic is in the outside lane, also on the M6 at stafford the current set up h... |
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Forum: Polls Topic: Eating at the wheel... |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 17:18
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| What is being forgotten here is that with food and drink if you need to devote full attention to the road and it is a matter of life and death then you can drop or throw your food and use both hands and devote your attention fully to the road, also the type of food you eat and if you have a passenge... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Permanent Votes |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 14:08
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| Bring in Transferable votes and long term planning goes out of the window, sensible policies will also die, as all it takes is for an unpopular but required change to be made and it won't happen, will the public get full briefings? will Intelligence agencies etc provide all the info? if you want bet... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Mirror motoring, sorta |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 13:27
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| Wow! With all those he saw on their phones and driving fast, where were the pile-ups and carnage? I guess he's got it part right, some drivers are incredibly selfish, but I would argue that doing 100mph (we could raplce speed cams with his carefully calibrated eyes!) in driving rain whilst using a ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Web chat whitewash |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 14:15
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Replies: 27
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| Or when Hardly Aticipating Trouble ( in his )ORIFACE(HATO) holds traffic up with his Psuedo copy car - how much that costs the cuntry. since starting to commute up to stoke a bit more regularly i have noticed that the HATO prats will stick to 50ish even when they are causing elephant races, what is... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Mobile Phone Driving - again |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 13:09
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Oscar wrote:
So in your ideal world it would be impossible to perfectly legally be on the phone as a passenger, |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road Pricing Payment Methods |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 13:12
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| ran up a hospital parking bill of £200 a month. And there's another disgusting tax, how on earth did we let them off with charging to park in OUR car parks at OUR hospitals? I can *almost* see how town centre parking avoids "parking congestion", but absolutely no excuse at hospitals.. I'm... |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: serious advice on where i stand with the law |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 17:05
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| I favour the Swedish idea. They have a limit which is 20 in blood as compared with our 80. That allows for cough mixture and the occasional alcoholic chocolate but rules out a pub drink. And which bans behaviour that causes no risk whatsoever on the road. We see an awful lot of drivers who are just... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Camera's make roads safer.....bollocks! |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 13:44
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| Talking bout fiction and cameras --anyone near Tamworth tell me if the cameras on the old s/c section of the A5 have been moved onto the D/C (Hints area) on the subject of those, wasn't it a shade quick how they reduced hints to 40 then had cameras up within weeks. To my knowledgem there are no cam... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The future of rural speed limits |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 16:24
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Replies: 25
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| I'd rather we just added new national speed limits, e.g 50 for A roads, 40 for B roads, 30 for Unclassified etc., instead of wasting so much money on repeater signs for needless speed limits. Of course what we had before the speed limit cutting craze was perfectly fine. which is ofcourse fine, unti... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Your problem with speed cameras is ??? |
| dave the nutter |
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 15:13
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Replies: 77
Views: 27829
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| Speed doesn't kill, innappropriate speed for the conditions do. If speed did kill, then why are our motorways the safest roads cos thats where motorists drive the fastest. And a certain TV presenter wouldn't have been back on TV, German Autobanhs (the derestricted ones) would be carnage loads of de... |
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