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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed cameras face the end of the road |
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 19:52
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| Swindon Cameras? - Wiltshire & Swindon Safety Camera Unit – Press Statement. (...) Over the 12 months to the end of April, 2008, the collision statistics for roads across the Wiltshire and Swindon area, including camera sites indicated a 30.25% reduction in the number of people killed or seriou... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: EU speed restriction on vehicles over 3.5t |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 00:55
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| (...) Incidentally, did you ever stop to wonder WHY so many trucks don't stick to the 40 and 50 limits? Could it be to try to reduce the number of stupid and dangerous overtakes performed by drivers who don't know that the limit even exists? Or could it be that its bloody boring driving at 40 or 50... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: EU speed restriction on vehicles over 3.5t |
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 00:46
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Sixy_the_red wrote: (...)
The major problem with goods vehicles under 7.5T is that most of them are driven by car drivers with no additional training.
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Since when is training a benefit when it is about collisions with people harmed? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: EU speed restriction on vehicles over 3.5t |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 00:42
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Sixy_the_red wrote: The incidences of these kinds of crashes INCREASED with the installation of limiters because the presence of a limiter decreases arrousal and thus the driver is more likely to become distracted.(...)
It is simply that. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Speed Cameras made no difference! |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 23:20
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BottyBurp wrote: (...)
Pecunia prius aequitas et salus.
Long ago I had Latin courses. It must be something like "the money is more important than justice or wellness". Is that correct?
(change equitas in aequitas, equitas is no Latin) |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Speed Cameras made no difference! |
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 23:07
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| Over here in Belgium (Flanders) the same result: 30% reduction in collisions alltogether but no statistically significant reduction in collisions with people killed or injured. Despite that our government has decided to install an extra amount of speed cameras. I do not see the point but probably I ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: EU speed restriction on vehicles over 3.5t |
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 21:46
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| (...) Which one do you mean ? Are you talking about the 40mph on single carriageway roads, the one that few trucks bother with ? Or the 50mph on dual carriageways , the one that few trucks bother with ? Or the 60 on m/ways, which they have to obey because it is electrically/mechanically enforced ? ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: EU speed restriction on vehicles over 3.5t |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 14:07
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| A speed limit for trucks over 7,5 tonnes is already there for over 10 years and is a failure in my view. It is hindering smooth traffic flow and traffic unsafety seriously increased. The number of terrible accidents with trucks crashing at the "correct" speed into the tail of a traffic jam... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Thanks, bikers! 20 miles of double white lines |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 22:58
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| I thought it was April 1st, but I was wrong! :cry: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2007/10/12/overtake-ban-to-be-brought-in-on-danger-tt-road-84229-19940948/ No overtaking (at all, apart from the normal exemptions?) on a 20 mile stretch? Absolutely ridiculous. North Yorkshire Police... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free motorways in Germany |
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 22:07
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| I am still living in Germany (Bavaria actually...which if you ask anyone here is not REALLY part of Germany...it just happens to share some of the same language). To answer a few of the questions (and give a bit more information). (...) I do not have any hard data to back up at the speed limits bei... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free motorways in Germany |
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 23:11
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theboxers wrote: I do not know if this will help with regard to German autobahn accidents From BASTTraffic Accidents Germany(...)
Thanks for the link, but the data were already in my archives.
Fact is, German motorways on average are with appr. 3 people killed per bilion km (1E09km) travelled very good. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free motorways in Germany |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 22:59
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| Peter C, I have been living in Germany now for 6 years, and I can help (a bit) but generally your question is not easy to answer. (...) Thanks for the link. I will keep it as a favorite. Are you (living in G) able to sustain the principle that limits are only applied on motorway tracks that show mo... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free motorways in Germany |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 09:52
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| I've never found those figures, but then I don't speak German and it's hard to search in a language that you don't speak (so mostly I don't even try). There are also some figures that show average speeds rising steadily on the Autobahns, while accident risk is reducing markedly. But I don't have a ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free motorways in Germany |
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 22:23
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free motorways in Germany |
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 22:58
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| Does any of you have data on road fatalities on restricted and on free motorways in Germany? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road deaths UP |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 22:21
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Replies: 14
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PeterC wrote: teabelly wrote: (...)
When did the EU start fiddling with our road safety policy? Does it?
After a month waiting for reply I guess the Eu does not. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: EU calls for autobahn speed limit |
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 01:54
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| This is nothing new really. I'm sure people have been campaigning for years for an autobahn speed limit. Indeed, they (mostly non Germans) did since 1973 - 1974 when all other western governments introduced general speed limits on motorways. The German government has an easy case. It just has to sh... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road deaths UP |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 23:08
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Replies: 14
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teabelly wrote: (...)
When did the EU start fiddling with our road safety policy?
Does it? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road deaths UP |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 23:46
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| (...) The difference between 0% and 1% could be a blip, but a decade's underperformance couldn't be, and the difference between -5% and +1% isn't a blip - it's a disaster. Your thesis on bad policy may be correct. Based on the official data of people killed in traffic it looks like in 1994 - 1995 a... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Interesting Euro comparisons |
| PeterC |
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 01:32
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mpaton2004 wrote: I believe Dominique whatshisface, the French PM has decided not to install any more "radars automatiques" (speed cameras) this year because of similar fears...
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You mean Dominique de Villepin?
Did he indeed? And from what fear than? |
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