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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Road Humps |
| JimB |
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 17:23
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| I find whenever I travel over a speed hump that a large amount of my attention goes to the hump itself, as I want to know exactly which moment I am going to be jolted. Looking into the mid - far distance takes a back seat. I have even tried to consciously not change my attention and drive as if the ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speeding crashes - a little challenge |
| JimB |
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 16:31
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Replies: 93
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Presumably a bottle of arsenic wouldn't be considered illegal even though it would contain more than 50ppb.
Why are you annoyed at someone who breaks the speed limit, yet causes no danger to anybody (even themselves)? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speeding crashes - a little challenge |
| JimB |
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 14:38
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| So, basingwerk, what is the legal limit for arsenic? |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Undertaking |
| JimB |
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 13:03
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Replies: 30
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: From Page: Steve Thomas 2 |
| JimB |
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 16:09
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Replies: 297
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| The difference is where you speed, by what margin and danger element... and we have pulled at 10% only in some cases. But then - BiBs know where the danger spots actually are and target and prosecute accordingly. The speed cam - well - I just have to say that I have noted a lot of bizarre sitings f... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The Highway Code |
| JimB |
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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 09:40
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Replies: 10
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| Along similar lines, I have noticed that when drivers' own choices of speed are artificially restricted eg by a speed camera on an inappropriately low limit, or by a police car on a motorway, the result is lots of bunching and the kind of incompetent speed up - slow down driving evidenced by lots of... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: End of cameras and spin |
| JimB |
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 13:36
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Replies: 3
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| OK this may seem far fetched but bear with it... Imagine if Tony Blair et al became convinced that: i. speed cameras were, in fact, useless. ii. they were also going to lose him a large number of votes. How would they actually go about getting rid of them ie what spin could be applied to a decision ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Headlamps |
| JimB |
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 14:18
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| One instant way of improving road safety to my mind would be the compulsory use of dipped headlamps during daylight hours as in the Scandinavian countries. Anything which improves your ability to be seen MUST increase safety. Nice assumption, but what is the effect of your headlights on the ability... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Telegraph: Speed cameras can't read my thoughts |
| JimB |
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 13:42
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| My question is simple, how do many police authorities Road safety strategies deal with this kind of event. AND how do they compare this kind of event to someone caught speeding, for ecample at 70 in a 60 limit? The answer is equally simple: send the rightful owner of the criminal's probably stolen ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Scarecrow speed cop in Durham |
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 13:11
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: How do Truvelo cameras work? |
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 15:11
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Replies: 18
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| Thanks for replies so far. I'm asking about this one because this is an example of a camera that you have to slow down for, because the speed limit is absurdly low for the road, so (almost) everyone travels at a sensible speed that is 10mph above the limit. And no - they are not all dangerous driver... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Whats Wrong With This Picture? |
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 16:06
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| The police riders in question probably held the same view as many on here including myself: If it is not dangerous, and not inconsiderate, then what is the "offence"? Unfortunately for the police, when they are seen acting in this reasonable manner, we see it as hypocrisy. When an ordinary member of... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: How do Truvelo cameras work? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 08:38
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| Thanks for the replies so far. From what Mike (F) is saying, I guess the camera would only take one photograph of an "offending" car, the evidence of speeding being provided by the three sensors in the road. If this is so, what implications are there for requesting and checking the evidence if one i... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: How do Truvelo cameras work? |
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:06
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| A new Truvelo forward facing camera has sprung up on the A62 between Manchester and Oldham which I use each day on my way to work. It's a 30mph limit dual carriageway on which the normal speed is around 40mph (quite safe). Does anybody on this forum know how the Truvelo works. On the road in front o... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Tailgaters - Had Enough... |
| JimB |
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 16:01
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Replies: 306
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| Have you ever thought of cruising at, say, 20% below the absolute top limit? Wouldn’t that be more normal? Absolute top limit is the legal limit, right? So you're suggesting that cruising at 24mph in a 30 limit, and 56mph on the motorway, is normal. Can't say I have noticed much of this normal beha... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Calling Basingwerk (and others) |
| JimB |
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 13:00
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Replies: 114
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| You haven't defined driving within the spirit of the law , either. I'm guessing that its means "driving at whatever speed I like, and bugger the consequences". As for evidence, there's this: http://www.tfhrc.gov/safety/speed/speed.htm Bugger the consequences isn't exactly what I would call within t... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Calling Basingwerk (and others) |
| JimB |
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:07
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| Back to (a paraphrase of) the original question: What evidence is there that rigid adherence to numerical speed limits is more beneficial to safety than driving within the spirit of the law. Define rigid adherence . Aiming to drive such that you never exceed the posted speed limit, as indicated on ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Calling Basingwerk (and others) |
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:18
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Replies: 114
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| Back to (a paraphrase of) the original question: What evidence is there that rigid adherence to numerical speed limits is more beneficial to safety than driving within the spirit of the law. Define rigid adherence . Aiming to drive such that you never exceed the posted speed limit, as indicated on ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Calling Basingwerk (and others) |
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 09:08
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Replies: 114
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Back to (a paraphrase of) the original question:
What evidence is there that rigid adherence to numerical speed limits is more beneficial to safety than driving within the spirit of the law. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Public support (or otherwise) for speed cameras |
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 14:43
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| The BBC has a fascinating new online poll asking the question "Should we scrap speed cameras?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/vine/ The 78% of the public who apparently support cameras are, yet again, conspicuous by their absence. Do they actually exist? I was very interested to read Mervyn Stone... |
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