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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What is the legal status of these speed limit signs? |
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 23:24
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| What happens if you're crawling round a supermarket car park at a rough 5mph, stop suddenly for an errant child and someone wheels a trolley into the back of your car? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 7 Months to send "Notice of Intended Prosecution"? |
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 23:12
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| Just a thought, but if it does indeed turn out this NIP has been issued "out of time" (and assuming S172 is complied with), does the NIP constitute some form of extortion / demanding money with menaces attempt? They must surely KNOW about the 6 six month limit, yet have still issued the NIP - does t... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Road Pricing |
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 19:20
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| Assuming we're stuck with bus lanes, why not just allow cars with 2+ occupants to use them as well? Instant "multi-occupancy" lanes at no extra cost. Never catch on... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speeding epidemic in the Midlands . . . |
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 22:53
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| I've always found the M180 to be completely deserted no matter what time I've been on it. Noticed a rash of camera signs on it when I was up there a few weeks back. Don't know if there are actual cameras or if it's a warning for possible mobile units on bridges? The M10 is always empty too, but more... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Calling Basingwerk (and others) |
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 22:42
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| Like it or not speed cameras cause drivers to slow down. Thay have also stimulated a debate on speed and road safety like no other device has since perhaps the inception of motorised road transport. That has got to lead to an improvement. So, cameras are causing us to slow down, yet more people are... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Continuing signs of panic at the top... |
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 01:48
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| Its a piece of pi*s to drive within the speed limits allowing for these tolerances. By the way +4mph only applies to teh 30mph limit. Try driving at or around the speed limits as a safe maximum. Its very relaxing and not at all like you describe. Perhaps you just cant drive. Oh for crying out loud.... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Continuing signs of panic at the top... |
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 20:00
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| The easiest thing to do is obey the limit, then you can ignore the signs and relax, job done. You'd have to be a fool not to when you see a big yellow sign in the road saying SLOW DOWN OR YOU WILL PAY £100's OF POUNDS! I think of scameras as signs that are smart enough to empty my pockets if I disr... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: 3 Easy steps to significantly reduce road casualties |
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 00:47
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| A thought regarding kids on mopeds... Current Government transport policy would appear to be to make driving a car, any car, a fundamentally unpleasant experience. This, coupled with crippling insurance costs for young drivers is almost FORCING them onto two wheels. Let's face it, they wouldn't be s... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: BBC on the Stone Report |
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 00:00
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| Found this comment interesting.... "On the positive side, there is a sizeable majority of the population, even of drivers, who are well-disposed to the use of such things as safety cameras even when allowance is made for the disgraceful positive bias in the questionnaire by which DfT ascertains that... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: BBC on the Stone Report |
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 23:42
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| Interesting that the BBC has Prof. Stone apparently drawing the same conclusions as a certain R Brunstrom. Something smells extremely fishy here.... From what I've read, he said nothing of the sort? He certainly mentions the use of random and hidden traps, but the BBC has handily dropped his comment... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Audible warning |
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 19:16
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| I know some of the GPS camera warning systems (Road Angel et al) have options of displaying the current limit, so maybe they have an audible warning for when you go over? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Primary "Speed Kills" research findings debunked |
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 19:11
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| Our safe roads are nothing to be complacent about! If there were as many deaths in any other form of transport, the railways for example, they would not last very long! The fact is that speed is the main contributory factor in nearly 50% of collisions on our roads, therefore by reducing speeds we a... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Another myth exposed? |
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 00:47
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Does anyone else find the idea of crumple zones on trains a tad optimistic? What exactly are they expecting to hit for crying out loud?
Always wondered why there are seatbelts on planes yet not on trains as well... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: 16 June: Guardian - Speed cameras save 100 lives a year ... |
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 23:56
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| http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,1239675,00.html Yesterday's audit concluded that just 245 cameras - one in 20 of the national total - was failing to reduce accidents. It did nothing of the sort - I was under the impression that this survey didn't cover ALL of the cameras and the ac... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Sunday Times: Darling to curb cameras |
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 01:09
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| Did I dream it, or haven't we already had a speed camera audit? Ok, so asking the SCPs "Are you're cameras in the right place?" doesn't exactly constitute an audit, but you know what I mean. I'm not getting my hopes up about the results - I'm expecting them to be fudgier than an explosion at a fudge... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Herts SCP and 2003 figures |
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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 22:38
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| Has anyone here managed to get the 2003 KSI figures from Hertfordshire SCP? I'm in the middle of a somewhat one sided correspondence (ie I email, they ignore me...) with them regarding a glut of new cameras in and around Watford. I've asked for the 2003 figures as well as the data to support the new... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Golden tips and great advice |
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 22:58
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| To quote that doyen of all things vehicular, Sheriff John Bunnell (retired)... "Always give yourself an out" Which I suppose is a grammatically displeasing way of saying you should always consider every possibility. Always expect that green light to turn to red, even if you think you know the sequen... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 18:30
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| Hornet...you said - after a long pre-amble: May I ask what selling point drew you to the PT Cruiser? Well.......It was not based around all of that very interesting EuroNCAP stuff I can tell you ! Probably, if I was totally truthful here I would say that I picked it because I am a ZEE ZEE-TOP fan !... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 18:20
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| I don't have even ONE point on my licence ! Can YOU or the rest of the "speedsafe" mob here say that ? No points on my licence. No points and totally accident free (fault or otherwise) in 13 years of driving. Don't suppose that fits into the neat little stereotype Papaumau has constructed, but hey,... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 17:42
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| The computer / car analogy is not invalid at all. Computers, certainly at the upper end of the market, are marketed on performance, much like cars. People will pay extra for a super fast PC despite the fact they will never use it to full potential. Exactly the same happens with cars. A fast PC obvio... |
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