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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: HAZARD TEST. |
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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:58
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| What is the hazard test distance? I never realised there was one but that would explain why so many seem to concentrate on a space just in front of their bonnets. The number of times I've seen people following buses at about 20 feet (probably less too) and then when the bus pulls up at a stop they w... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Another misguided comment |
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:41
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| https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/voices/opinions/2019/04/08/shropshire-star-comment-speeding-cars-let-off-the-hook/ So let's not assume that drivers may be driving to the speed limit more these days, let's assume more idiots are getting away with it and let's put up more cameras, "that's the... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Will they ever learn? |
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:38
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The Guardian: All new UK cars to have speed limiters by 2022 |
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:36
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| Apparently we are going to adapt the speed limiter even if we leave the eu. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Drivers could face fine for hanging air fresheners |
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:34
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Quote: "I saw a horse wearing a dress running across the road. It was being followed by a tin man who was wearing a kaftan...a tabard...a poncho".
If you are so thick not to know a guy is wearing a suit of armour, should you really be driving?  |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: HAZARD TEST. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:31
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| Exactly right, I'm amazed at how many drivers only seem to focus on an area about 20 feet in front of their bonnet, does no-one teach about varying your vision to scan the road as far ahead as your sight line anymore. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Massive increase in speeding motorists caught on camera in N |
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2018 11:15
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| So we would expect accidents to increase by 140% with all those extra "nutcases" on the road.....somehow doubt it though. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: COAST |
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 13:39
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| I agree, Botach and always give learner cars far more frontal clearance than other vehicles, I can't see the point in getting too close, it's only going to un-nerve the learner and at the same time, you never know when they are going to miss a gear and slow suddenly. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: COAST |
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 08:14
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Let's hope you don't pass on the favourite "tip" , that you don't need to use indicators or mirrors, once you've passed... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Brake urges rural road practice for young drivers |
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 14:20
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| I don't really get the "living in a city, no rural roads" bit. How far do you have to really drive from a city centre before you find a bit of rural road. Lessons are an hour long on average, surely devoting a whole lesson (or extending it to 2hrs) would enable a learner to at least experi... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: COAST |
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 12:42
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| Yes you are right 10 yards is probably exaggerating for some people. The number of times i've seem people pull up behind a bus at a bus stop so close that they don't realise that it's stopped to pick up and so close that they can't see that the road ahead is clear and safe to overtake it. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: COAST |
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 18:51
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| yes, whereas Care and Consideration are good safety tools, Concentration has to be the key one. Unfortunately, very few people seem to concentrate at all these days. The people that I see driving on a daily basis seen to be in a dream world with no idea of what is going on on the road, outside their... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Safest roads about to become dangerous? |
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 16:15
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| I can see this working for little used motorways at their quietest times like our local M54 at certain times of the day but to put a learner on a busy motorway is asking for trouble, not just as a safety angle but as a congestion issue. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Safest roads about to become dangerous? |
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 20:37
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| judging by the amount of serious accidents we have reported in Shropshire on a weekly basis (and the weather isn't even bad yet), the young certainly need better tuition in keeping the car or it's wheels or even on the roads, at the moment. They seem to manage putting it on its roof or in a ditch, e... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: do speed cameras prevent accidents and save lives? |
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 16:51
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Forum: Cycling Topic: BBC - Chris Boardman - Give way to cyclists when turning |
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 13:05
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| Good point, there's no law to say how far from the pavement you have to drive, if all motorists drove a few inches from the pavement when approaching traffic lights it would stop the kamikazes whizzing up the inside....no left turn accidents then. |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: BBC - Chris Boardman - Give way to cyclists when turning |
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 18:22
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| So, imagine a busy town at peak times. A set of lights with a left hand lane for turning left and straight ahead and a second lane for right turns only. The lead car wants to turn left, has a green light but sees a stream of cyclists on his left...he daren't turn left so waits for a dozen or so to p... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Not a good advert for speed awareness courses. |
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 14:46
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Forum: Cycling Topic: A video of loads of cyclists riding on the pavement! |
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 09:44
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed is safe and Denmark has the proof |
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 18:52
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| I travelled the A442 between bridgnorth and Kidderminster this weekend. Now thi is a road I used to travel daily in the 70s and was a good safe road. Not now. In a short stretch of about 6-7 miles from Bridgnorth there must be at least 7 speed limit changes. The 30 limit stretches well into what use... |
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