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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: they used a vectra and not a van to reconstruct? |
| Mad Moggie |
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 21:59
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| Hi Botach Nice to speak to you again too. Alas - I leave in a couple of days. Vrenchen has been in Euroland since July. SHe returns with me this time. I've been "jetting back and forth" as my work is not the same as hers. I am currently here on sad terms as couple of my own relatives passe... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Speed camera not to be replaced |
| Mad Moggie |
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 21:47
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| We hear that plans are afoot to privatise speed cams? Well .. in Arizona - we have had a switch off on the fast roads (KSI not suffered - reduced actually on those roads per the stats :popcorn: ) and a rekindled referendum move on the urban ones - and you can thank the SWISS contingent for that one ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: they used a vectra and not a van to reconstruct? |
| Mad Moggie |
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 21:20
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| PS - to all polive officer reading this - no one is "bib bashing" here. I have posted links to a story which appeared in the Manchester press. I happen to know that road .. as do my sisters .. their spouses and their own 17 year old drivers. At the time this story appeared in the press - I... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: they used a vectra and not a van to reconstruct? |
| Mad Moggie |
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 20:59
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| http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1138107_police_officer_charged_over_crash_death http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1314729_police_officer_accused_of_999_death_crash_on_trial_ http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1314893_deathcrash_police_van_travellin... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Icy road was a ‘death trap’ — inquest |
| Mad Moggie |
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 20:48
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| http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/8357218.Icy_road_was_a____death_trap________inquest/ Just click on this link and discuss. Maybe I should have put in "Improve"? Claire - move as you see fit.,. Sorry if I made mistake here. I am outa practice here :wink: ( Edited to use the title from th... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: New driver restrictions 'Would save lives' |
| Mad Moggie |
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 20:35
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| Just been on phone to a cousin of mine (I also have cousins who are also quite mad about cars Anyway - he said the immortal words of :shock: MAUREEN IN LADA Now as I recall - Maureen was middle aged.. drove a Lada called "Bessie".. sat her driving test umpteen times and finally passed it i... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: New driver restrictions 'Would save lives' |
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 20:09
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| I have not read all the comments on this story. I do not have the time. I am just whiling away a few moments as I await Wildy's return from Basel. (Off topic aside - but I've been jetting back and forth over the summer as I had to earn my crust over in Arizona whilst Wildy had an "office jolly&... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Speed cameras 'don't stop REAL danger motorists' |
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 19:38
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| But child cyclist deaths and serious injuries rose 10 per cent in 2009 and serious injuries to all cyclists rose 6 per cent. So, motorists are becoming less careless while cyclists are becoming more accident prone (especially children). Or there the number of cyclists is increasing and the number o... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: smoking in your car.. calls to ban it.. |
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:54
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| Errr.... I do worry a bit over legislation. I do advise all my patients to stop smoking as this will affect treatment prescribed. :roll: I cannot refuse treatment nor can I force a patient to do as I advise :bunker: I think the issue is .. how do you enforce such a ban? :scratchchin: One way (as sai... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: ACPO Guidelines |
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:33
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| A thread over on Pistonheads is exploring the possibility that the 10%+2 is no longer an ACPO guide for speeding prosecution. Any news here? I guess the 3kph tol'c from elsewhere was inevitable here eventually now that the funding is reduced :( Hi David According to Greenshrek and von or con of the... |
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Forum: CSCP Refugees Topic: Obscured Screen Fatality - Driver charged |
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:21
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There have been some dreadful photos in the paper.. including one down south whereby some pensioner cleared two "peepholes"
   All the police reportedly did was give her a scraper.
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Forum: CSCP Refugees Topic: Cumbria Speed Camera cut down... |
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:54
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| ..immediately via the internet. They intend to ask the last motorist detected, if they saw anything suspicious. :bunker: :? :? :? Err... they did not see the speed cam... so how would they have noted a bloke with a big angle-grinder? :? Safety has been affected, with several collisions between vehi... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Jimmy Carr convicted of speeding |
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 21:03
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| This implies that if the road is labeled incorrectly the Court no longer cares ! No it doesn't. We see this sort of thing fairly often. The test whether the defendant was so misled by the error that his or her ability to mount a defence was curtailed. It would depend on proof of signage. We are awa... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Global warming cobblers? |
| Mad Moggie |
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 20:34
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| But we've always had it. Just been on phone to IG and another pal who also watches History documentaries as keenly as we do :lol: From this .. I learned that there was a famine in the Middle Ages . caused by relentlessly hot summers and bitterly harsh winters. Errr? A cycle then which occurs each mi... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: definition of good driver .. from the 60s! |
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 19:42
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| My fave has to be the paragraph about safe OVERTAKING. The late Paul used to lament that no one seemed willing to tackle the thorny topic of good practice with regard to overtaking.. and a good driver may be measured on how skilfully they overtake . not how many they do :popcorn: This archived gem w... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Now you can't give the impression you can defend yourself |
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 15:24
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| Err.. I'm about to carve up roast lambs (yep .. plural .. huge family .. and we are quaffing dry martini cocktails before we start :lol: HIC!) If weilding a huge knife in my own home here is "illegal" :roll: .. then how am I supposed to carve this lamb? With me feline fangs :twisted: :shoc... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: on the back of all kids' exercise books in the 60s |
| Mad Moggie |
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 15:05
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| There was no such list on the back of my children's books 10 to 20 years ago. Nor was it needed because they were taught how to comport themselves on the accompanied walk . first to school and later, when they started at big school, to the bus stop. Walking teaches kids about road safety a lot bett... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Global warming cobblers? |
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 14:26
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| Colder winters are not incompatible with an increase in average temperature provided that the summers get hotter. You mean disproportionately hotter (more hotter than the winters are getting colder), otherwise the two will tend to cancel or even make your statement irrelevant. I could also say, wit... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Whatever became of.... |
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 13:50
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| \hi been busy with this and that. \i am full committed to Claire's cause and would not want anyone to think otherswise. \it's just that \i have a few other pressing matters which have rather taken up my time. As soon as these are sorted... \i will give you my take on life . which \i hope to be help... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Local Community Speedwatch |
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 23:15
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| I think we all have to show courtesy to all others. OK .. so I'm old fashioned and have been brought up by my parents to show "decent gentlemanly polite manners" :lol: So .. I slow upand wave folk across.. .some of these folk show most obnoxious manners :shock: My own sister was most upset... |
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