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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Tailgating |
| JohnW1st |
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 06:27
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| For example: the gap could be set where unforeseen emergency braking of a vehicle in front would lead to contact. Yeah... The point of leaving a gap is so that it can get shorter if something bad happens, rather than the front of your car getting shorter... So there will always be occasions when pe... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Tailgating |
| JohnW1st |
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 20:09
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| I'm not defending it, but is tailgating really a major cause of accidents? . . . . . .If your attention is elsewhere it's all too easy to run into the back of someone even if two, three or four seconds back from them. That second or two has been scientifically proven to make all the difference, and... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Tailgating |
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 17:07
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| I agree that tailgating is an education issue. Several factors complicate, or even invalidate anti-tailgating legislation... Perhaps the biggest problem we have outside people ‘getting’ education (it’s out there for those that take the trouble to listen and look) is when a serious ‘tailgating offen... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Tailgating |
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 16:43
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| But education HASN'T been going on for years. Driver training is woefully inadequate - I don't think I was EVER taught the 2 second rule by any official body, or TV / radio / other media... You have just underlined my point on education - the "Two Second Rule" has been about for ten or mo... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Tailgating |
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 16:25
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| Defining a ‘tailgating’ distance is much like trying to define a safe numerical speed for all occasions – impossible. What’s safe in the dry, isn’t in the wet etc. etc. Education is what's needed, not legislation. I could not agree with you more , but how long as education been going on already – Y... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Tailgating |
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 16:06
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| Surely it is classed as dangerous driving, if it is dangerous? There are too many specific offences and yet another one would just allow the government to make money from people, possibly using tailgating cameras. It would be a bit like the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) R... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Tailgating |
| JohnW1st |
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 15:36
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| I wonder how many people who are of a mind to support your petition are themselves unwitting tailgaters and thus would find themselves being prosecuted under any new regulation. How can anyone unwittingly tailgate? There is a big difference between being a little closer than the two second rule, an... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Tailgating |
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 15:14
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| Currently tailgating is one of the greatest causes of accidents on our roads, yet in this country it is not a specific offence. Excluding those who speed in built-up areas where the speed limit is there for the benefit of pedestrians not motorists, not all speeding motorists are guilty of bad drivi... |
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