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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: New driver restrictions 'Would save lives' |
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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 20:07
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| So how do you define "hours of darkness"? If it's when it's actually dark, such a restriction would prevent any recently qualified driver from commuting to any full-time job by car. And people doing shiftwork are likely to need to commute at any time of the day or night. And would a restr... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What is important about remaining within limits? |
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 20:09
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Replies: 75
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Personally in a perfect world I think the speed should be set at the 85 percentile with -5MPH for urban roads and +5 for rural/Motorways. These should be advisory
speeds only. But the penalty for dangerous driving causing death or serious injury should be the same as murder.
dreams are free. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Stop here, flashing sign. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 19:58
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| I wouldn't worry too much, if you're on hospital grounds then there isn't much they can do in the way of enforcement (it's unlikely it's Highway authority land). Most of the hospitals I've worked with don't really care much about people parking left, right and centre anyway. Even if they do, just c... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Is it April 1st or are these people having a laugh? |
| wmoore |
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 23:42
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Replies: 52
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| Why don't they just say 'All motor vehicles should be taken away and crushed' that's what they really want. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Caption Competition 4 |
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 22:12
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Replies: 64
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Why the need to rush ? |
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 22:31
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| I was driving home from work tonight and I got behind a motorbike with a sidecar. I then noticed that below his number plate he had a electronic LED scrolling sign that said 'Why the need to rush ?' It was only about an inch and a half high, so you did have to get close to read it. Also when he indi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Mum fears crossing accident could kill or injure youngster |
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 22:25
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Replies: 30
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Looking at street view It seems that the road surface and road markings need some work done to them. I wonder what it is like in bright sunlight and low light/heavy rain as well.
And also what speed were the 'speeding' cars doing ? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Overspeeding whilst using a expired provisional license |
| wmoore |
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 13:34
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| Hi, a friend of mine was overspeeding at 37mph in a 30mph zone. She was using her expired provisional license but has requited for a new one that is yet to come. What happens now? Will the punishment be really bad or will she get a fixed point? Please help. It's really urgent! Thank you. Why is it ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: My new name for tailgaters. |
| wmoore |
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 23:17
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Replies: 5
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my new name for tailgater's and especially those who just hang on to the car in front and don't seem to overtake.
Yappy drivers.  Like small yappy type dogs. They just hang on and don't let go.  |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "The day I hit a child at 20mph" |
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 21:58
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Replies: 64
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| Well that is quite right but what you and many of your chums have failed to see is that the lower speed in the accident has in this brilliantly illustrative case prevented the seriousness of the INJURY whatever the cause of the accident. As others have said the accidents needs to be prevented in th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "The day I hit a child at 20mph" |
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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 22:52
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Replies: 64
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| Well that is quite right but what you and many of your chums have failed to see is that the lower speed in the accident has in this brilliantly illustrative case prevented the seriousness of the INJURY whatever the cause of the accident. As others have said the accidents needs to be prevented in th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "The day I hit a child at 20mph" |
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 23:25
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| Canadian brain researchers Hal Weinberg PhD and Michael Gaetz from the Brain Behaviour Laboratory at Simon Fraser University suggest that the ability of the brain to react to unexpected events depends on an optimal range of speed rather than simply going slower. They write "If events are chang... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: For Sale signs stopping drivers in their tracks ... |
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 00:34
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Replies: 19
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| I've watched others drive past cameras (as a passenger), their checking the speedo 3-4 times on close approach is a regular occurrence - even though they were within the limit in the first place. There's a camera on a 40mph road which I regularly use. Very often I see the car, or cars, in front of ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Plea for better understanding of the physics of speed |
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 00:24
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| How can a numerical speed sign dictate what is dangerous? It's just a sign that sits there doing nothing WEEPEJ? No, it's a sign that tells people what the maximum speed limit is. They are then supposed to adjust their driving accordingly. But the problem is that a lot of people don't adjust their ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: A view from Australia on the Speed Camera debate. |
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 23:54
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And the same can be said about New Zealand as well. NZ government usually takes on road safety ideas from Victoria, which is sad.
If Victoria is doing it, NZ will soon follow. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Exploding space saver tyre fatality |
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 00:21
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Replies: 29
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| It wasn't the space spacer that exploded it was the full size one. It is thought the couple had changed the wheel on their BMX Z3 after noticing a bulge in a tyre. They replaced it with the space saver tyre - designed to get them to a local garage - but could not fit the full size one in the boot b... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Exploding space saver tyre fatality |
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 13:50
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| It wasn't the space spacer that exploded it was the full size one. It is thought the couple had changed the wheel on their BMX Z3 after noticing a bulge in a tyre. They replaced it with the space saver tyre - designed to get them to a local garage - but could not fit the full size one in the boot be... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Lorry shunt motorway footage |
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 00:41
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Replies: 24
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 85th Percentile sense - USA |
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 23:26
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| I wish other countries would do it correctly as well. As I am originally from New Zealand, I found out about NZ setting of speed limits, yes they use the 85th but when they do their speed surveys they use the same locations each year and they do the surveys at the same time each year, in July, which... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: SPEEDING THROUGH SPEED CAMERA ZONE |
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 23:11
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| I don't know what the correct answer is, but maybe they are varying their speed else where, so they may do :40: for a while and then :50: and pass you at :60: Yesterday I was on the M4 they had average speed camera due to roadworks, What a pain that was, kept looking at the speedo, and the other pai... |
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