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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Lancs Road Partnership At It Again! |
| STOPWASTEDLIVES |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 20:42
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| I saw a LPFRS van hidden (deliberately in my opinion) in a 50 zone on the A6068 near Burnley in a layby behind a bush (from the A roads view) on a sideroad. Whilst there are Speed Camera warning signs nearby (seemingly for the fixed cams), there is no way you could have seen the van unless you were ... |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: Speed Camera van - but no camera in sight! |
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 22:42
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| Also, I've been told the fact it was parked on the opposite side of the road might have meant it was only monitoing that side (which would be downhill) but I was driving towards it... |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: Speed Camera van - but no camera in sight! |
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 01:00
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| Basically I was in Leeds today and went through what I know now to be a spot patrolled by mobile cameras. My speedo had be doing about 36-38mph (probably the fastest I went along the whole road) when I saw the van. It was an 'Accident Prevention Van' with orange lights on the top and a largely black... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New super-cameras to target smoking, eating & phoning... |
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 14:27
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Yes, giving out more guns is clearly the solution to gun crime. This is by far the most logical argument I have ever read....  |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving test age 'will be raised to 18' |
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 13:54
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anton wrote: How do you reverse out of a drive? or out of a parking space?
Is that not reversing round a corner?
Yeah but you never do it in the same fashion as on a test. Which is effectively reversing round and doing a strange little park thing near the curb. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving test age 'will be raised to 18' |
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 02:50
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| 500 hours!!!!! I passed after around 30 hours, 18 months ago and am yet to crash. Go figure. :roll: 500 hours x average driving lesson cost of £20 per hour = £10,000. Basically it is a tax on the poor who won't be able to afford to drive anymore, and thus their career opportunities will diminish alo... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Govt Response To "Climate Change Honesty" Petition |
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 19:12
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| There is pretty much universal agreement on the issue. The only disagreement seems to come from American cynics who wouldn't want anything to harm their precious economy. We can see it all around us, look at the increases in extreme weather (notably flooding in UK) in recent years, which is highly l... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Eu Treaty Signed |
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 01:42
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| Look at the Bali conference yesterday. The EU managed to pressure the US enough to give in to the agreement. Individually, the European states would have had no chance. Whilst the opening of UK borders to perhaps too many foreign workers is a problem, overall the EU has worked wonders for the econo... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Eu Treaty Signed |
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 01:46
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| I don't see why we moan about immigration, policing and other matters and THEN moan when many of these powers are given to Europe. Its power going away from Labour to the EU, which I actually believe has a lot more bright ideas than the current government. The EU is less about appearing to succeed t... |
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Forum: Paul Smith, RIP Topic: Condolences |
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 17:38
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This has actually left me stunned. 
My deepest sympathy goes out to Pauls family.
He was truly the David fighting Goliath, and was slowly but surely winning. RIP |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: OMG, Just got a reply from Richard Brunstrom |
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 15:51
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| Glad his only argument is 'obey this because it's the law.' |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Deadly Mates... |
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 01:37
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| I may have been too busy concentrating on negotiating the tricky, wiggling course, but I didn't see a speed limit sign anywhere! What speed were we supposed to go through the GATSO below? I went through at ~5mph, because I thought it might earn me extra score, and as I accelerated away (well below ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: It always comes back to speeding |
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 01:33
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| After someone died racing someone else through an urban area at 90mph, the message it seems is not, racing each other is bad, and neither is it this was an isolated incident with two muppets at far beyond the speed of any normal motorist on those roads. No instead we are left with the message 'speed... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Deadly Mates... |
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 15:49
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YES, just got 5 stars, despite getting to 80mph at one point. I am ALREADY safe and responsible on the road apparently. Yay!!  |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Deadly Mates... |
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 15:06
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| Now what self-respecting driver can't get the 5 stars in the game :D I should also point out that the signage before the camera is inadequate, so any penalties issued there are invalid :D Also, you can amber jump the light :nono: The camera flashed me despite averaging about 5mph through it. Also, ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The Lancashire Telegraph and Young Drink Drivers |
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:47
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| I don't know. The LPRS are amateur and miss the point in my experience. I cannot begin to believe that that rise is real, and must be due to differences in the way the study was conducted. Either way, the LT have used this as ammunition for their anti young driver campaign (an original aim was to li... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The Lancashire Telegraph and Young Drink Drivers |
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 14:36
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| Could anyone shed some light on the findings of a study which the Lancashire Telegraph is creaming over in its hate campaign against young drivers. It claims that in a survey by the Lancashire Partnership for Road safety (who have taken to cold calling people asking if they had ever broken the speed... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: BBC News, 5th December 2007: Hughes Disqualified |
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 13:03
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| clearly judged the circumstances to be safe Safe? 90mph? Richard Hammond crashed at 300mph and survived (granted only just). You will surely say that that is completely different and that not an everyday situation. HOWEVER, it did support the SS rhetoric that the conditions play a much more importa... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Slow to 20 mph for hard shoulder car. but not for urban res. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 02:08
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| I think that email somewhat exaggerates the extent of peoples idiocy. I cannot believe for a second that someone would slow down to 20mph on a motorway for that reason. To do so would be horrendously dangerous and if this were common it would turn our motorways into bloodbaths. Lots of silly people ... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Top Gear, 18th November 2007 |
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 23:22
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| And if 'speed' within the speed limit kills, what on earth are we going to do about that? Slow down? To what speed? What numerical speed will make us all "safe" in all conditions? Answer me that. Cor, to a speed that is suitable for the conditions and the potential hazards around you. Its... |
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