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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 22:17
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| In your opinion it is valid. Unless you can prove it is still just an opinion. One that I disagree with but we're all entitled to opinions. Something else that may go against her is if a reply was saved in her drafts that mentioned a key fact mentioned in the incoming text "Yes I would like a s... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 21:14
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| I'm sure there is some CCTV or perhaps the cyclists watch that could show what time the accident took place, and if an incoming message was read shortly before it wouldn't look good. But I know that not good enough for the courts, and rightly so. There are lots of examples of innocent parties becomi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 20:30
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| I wonder if, especially due to the junctions with only one green light at any one time, people are learning that "green light means nothing is coming"? I think you are over-analysing this. Even if people are thinking like that (and it's quite a leap of faith in my opinion) then there is s... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 20:23
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| What worrys me is that the police seem to prove texting by receiving a text message. If an accident happened to me. I would not want to be found guilty of texting, which I never do , just because someone sent me a text message. I've no idea on the technical aspects of mobile phones about whether th... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Guilty Of Dangerous Parking.. Catalyst for tragedy. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 20:08
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| I'm still completely puzzled as to what on earth this has got to do with original incident?? Nobody with an ounce of common sense will park half a meter from the kerb on a bend because the council charge for parking!! Rationing by price is not ideal but it's the simplest solution to the problem. If ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 19:57
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| Well if you insist the council are to blame they must be. Could it not possibly true that it had nothing to do with them and it was the carelessness of the cyclist, motorist, or both? But of course it's easy to make a cheap shot at the council as usual. If we think hard enough, maybe we can blame EV... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Guilty Of Dangerous Parking.. Catalyst for tragedy. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 19:31
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| Toll car parks make people park elsewhere. Usually in a more dangerous place. Yes, because I'm sure that if there would have been a free car park, that same motorist would have used the car park, then come back to talk to her friend. What an irrelevant point. Not everthing is as a result of the per... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 19:27
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| Exactly! So why add another irrelevant caveat that it might be the councils fault? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 19:22
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| At this junction there are no pedestrians, pavements, shops, schools, etc. It is the duel carriageway leaving the town center sandwiched between the port and railway line. The cycle path is fenced apart next to the railway line. there is a red light camera and two speed cameras about 500m in each d... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 19:18
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| You have to wonder if the cyclist ignored the red light, and the driver was going so fast through the green light because of the way the council have set up their lights to cause as much inconvenience as possible? This is Southampton. I think it's far more relevant to wonder if either the driver or... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Guilty Of Dangerous Parking.. Catalyst for tragedy. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 17:58
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| Toll car parks make people park elsewhere. Usually in a more dangerous place. Yes, because I'm sure that if there would have been a free car park, that same motorist would have used the car park, then come back to talk to her friend. What an irrelevant point. Not everthing is as a result of the per... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 16:35
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| It could have been a pedestrian(in different circumstances), and in cases where there is no specific pedestrian crossing assosiated with the lights it would be diffiult to argue that they "jumped" the lights. So I don't think it should have much baring on the outcome of the case unless the... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: prosecuted for no insurance |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 15:02
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| Trust me, if the insurance company has calculated it, then it is the case. The actuaries are the worst (or should that be best????) maths freaks in the entire world - I know this for a fact before anyone says anything. What's the justification for charging a young male less who has a expierenced fe... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do you press the button to APPLY the handbrake? |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 14:56
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| I have been advised on an advanced driving course (a day out, a bit of a "lite" course rather than a full AIM or suchlike course) to keep your footbrake on when stopped on the carriageway. The full advice was when stopped on a motorway, for example, you should stop nearly a full car lengt... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: prosecuted for no insurance |
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 17:18
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| The links between marriage and safe driving is surely tenuous at best, no? Or is there real evidence to suggest married couples have a lower risk profile?! Ohh, I can certainly think that a link might exist, how significant it is though I dont know. It is certainly possible that men who are married... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: prosecuted for no insurance |
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 16:59
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| does sex make that much difference to risk? According to insurance companies it does. More strange still is that when we got married we phoned the insurance company to notify them of my wife's change of name and we got a reduction because we were now married. So the same people, same cars, just one... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Seven point plan to relieve congestion |
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 16:48
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| For the record, I accept that a car is (in concept at least) a useful thing, and that each use of the car offers tangible benefits which are not necessarily to be sneered at. In return perhaps you will acknowledge that it also results in actual and often measurable social harms, and that as a socie... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Seven point plan to relieve congestion |
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 14:34
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| This was a long time ago (well, 1998), in fact it was the first time I'd ever gone on a long trip entirely on my own with no parental planning or assistance involved. Hell it was before I'd even passed my driving test! No-one advised me that such a thing was going on when I booked the tickets, thou... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Seven point plan to relieve congestion |
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 14:16
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| I've not had problems with it. Last time I used it was on Firefox on a Mac. The data isn't always perfect though, the last time the reported delay for the train I was watching was about 25 minutes, but it ended up being about 35 minutes late. And the time before the train was abandoned due to being... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Faulty speedo gets driver banned |
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:29
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| But if your car drives smoothly, how would you be expected to know? gear. engine revs. visual perception. ( that and catching other traffic with a 20mph differential speed :wink: ) Possibly, but on a motorway of 70mph I think you'd find an awful lot of traffic doing the same 90mph as this chap was ... |
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