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Forum: Cycling Topic: Evening Standard - Bike vs Taxi - who's at fault? |
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 16:05
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Toltec wrote: Looks like the cabs indicator came on a bit late, even so passing at a junction is a classic beginners mistake on the part of the cyclist.
Not just cyclists, unfortunately. A bit of a 6 of one situation, that could have been a lot worse. Both showed a lack of awareness of their surroundings. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Loophole |
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 15:27
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Loophole |
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:55
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Replies: 5
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How old is the article. I can't see a publication date on the web page and the tail end of this goes on about 2001.
If it is up to date it could be interesting.
Edit to add
IIRC this was closed a while ago. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road Rage Britain |
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:26
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Lawyer Nick Freeman calls for a ban on "dangerous" SatNavs |
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 15:08
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Replies: 11
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| Like any tool a satnav is only as good as the person using it. Like malcolmw I had very good sense of direction and could get myself fairly close to wherever I wanted to go. It was always the last few miles that I would have issues. I started using satnavs for that last little bit. However over the ... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclist Killed in London |
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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 16:55
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Replies: 35
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: One for Mobile Phone Lovers |
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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 15:46
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| Not just phones Using a mobile phone, eating, drinking and smoking were all shown to increase the risk of a crash, Brake claimed. What next? Music, Conversations with passengers, garish advertising boards at the side of the road. Oh that didn't work :? . We know a red flag :tumbleweed: It would be n... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Dash cams |
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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 16:52
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| Take a look at Techmoan.com. It is a guy who reviews allsorts of stuff including dashcams. http://www.techmoan.com/recommended-cameras/ http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2013/8/31/the-mini-0801-tiny-1080p-gps-car-camera-with-an-lcd-screen.html He has good indepth video reviews and original clips from the... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Council parking profits soar by 15 per cent |
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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 16:18
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| Two shopping areas close to me have recently had paid parking restrictions put in place on formerly free parking. IIRC it is £2 an hour. However the first 30 minutes is free with a ticket. This is a good way, IMO, to recycle bays and maintain the foot fall that these local business require. If I had... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclist Killed in Race |
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 18:09
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| I am sad that this has happened. It appears that this was a road race (group) not a time trial (individual) from what it says on the web site for this event. I found a video of last years event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaLegsDoCPw&feature=youtu.be . The roads do not appear to be closed. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Hazard Awareness |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 19:11
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Replies: 5
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Tone
Yes traveling with the hazards lights going  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Hazard Awareness |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 22:26
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| I was going to put this in the Improving Road Safety forum but it is not the right one. As we also have no Joke forum I thought it best to put it here. :? As we all know a big part of driving is hazard awareness. It is also true, I think, that this improves with experience. We are able to better rec... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bradley Wiggins |
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 16:35
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weepej wrote: Lots of evidence that helmet wearing makes cycling unsafer for individuals and for cyclists as a whole.
Can you explain and show how please. |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bradley Wiggins |
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 19:48
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| Here's a quote from him today: Wiggins, speaking after winning his Olympic gold medal in Wednesday's time trial, said making it illegal to cycle without a helmet would make the roads safer "because ultimately, if you get knocked off and you ain't got a helmet on, then how can you kind of argue... |
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Forum: Polls Topic: How Safe A Driver are you ? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 14:49
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| Was rear ended twice within 6 weeks 5 years ago. First time was avoiding a red light jumper (who then just carried on and disappeared). 2nd one I was stationary in a queue of traffic and the car behind just drove into the back of mine. She then had the front to deny having done it. The facts that h... |
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Forum: Polls Topic: How Safe A Driver are you ? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 00:16
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| Was rear ended twice within 6 weeks 5 years ago. First time was avoiding a red light jumper (who then just carried on and disappeared). 2nd one I was stationary in a queue of traffic and the car behind just drove into the back of mine. She then had the front to deny having done it. The facts that he... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Silly Cyclists - Youtube |
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 19:16
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Replies: 9
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SafeSpeedv2 wrote: What does [bicycle symbol] CS7 (in blue) mean in the road markings ? What's that all about ?
The CSX is the number of the cycle route you are travelling on. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Distracted driving proposal from the US |
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 09:06
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Replies: 3
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed |
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 11:28
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Replies: 249
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| Sorry about that I was replying to an assertion made by "graball" not the site Sorry I can not see where this has been done. Can you link to it please :) On the road speed is never the only factor that must be judged by all road users. It is however the only factor that a camera can judge... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed |
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 19:56
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| It would appear that the trial of Peter Renshaw will have put a serious dent into your assertation that "speed does not cause problems", I have been reading this site and posting on this forum for a while. I can not recall seeing any such assertion by the site, the owner of the site and a... |
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