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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 'Fairer' speeding fines proposed |
| rbryant |
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:39
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| And ... two offences could lose you your licence 45 in a 30 94 in a 70 equals 12 points and no licence. I have certainly done the second safely many times, and even the first where there are stupid 30 limits. There is one near me where there is a Gatso on a dual carriageway just after a change from ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: BBC Radio 4 this morning |
| rbryant |
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 08:01
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| Radio 4 had a piece on the new proposals for variable speeding fines and points this morning, and the spokesman trotted out 2 old chesnuts One third of accidents are speed related 40% accident reduction at camera sites (though he generalised to areas I think) Anyone know how best to challenge these ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Traffic Flow on Motorways |
| rbryant |
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:35
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| Its not rubbish at all. There was a program on TV a while ago, surveying traffic flow on the M25. One thing they could show very clearly was the start of one of these - all it needed was the usual close driving in the outside lane, one car applies brakes, and from the bridge they were filming from y... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Reply from Safe Speed For Life |
| rbryant |
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 08:49
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| Yes, its just sloppy thinking, there could equally well be a third factor causing both eg when I eat chocolate I get acne Therefore chocolate causes ache Not necessarily - both could be caused by stress. Any competent scientist could devise a test to measure the true effect, but the speed camera par... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Reply from Safe Speed For Life |
| rbryant |
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 23:25
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| Yes that would be a good start, but would still produce biased figures, as anything closer to the average would tend to show less of a reduction than the extremes do they select. Best way, select the 1000 worst sites and use half as a control group, measure over next 12 months and compare. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Reply from Safe Speed For Life |
| rbryant |
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 22:40
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| Hope this is of interest, in reply to my question about conducting a properly scientific test of gatso effictiveness with a control group of Garden Gnomes: If you cut and paste the link below, you may find this information by Napier University useful, as it deals with some of the issues you have rai... |
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