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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Daily Mail, January 28, 2008 |
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 17:40
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| VRM is illegal...should be reflective |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Car crashes into first floor flat, BBC News 02/12/07 |
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 17:20
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| A car at 30mph has sufficient kinetic energy to jump 30 feet vertically since 1.0g deceleration from 30mph to 0 takes 30 feet. Erm, no. It has no way of translating that kinetic energy into purely vertical movement. It may have the potential energy. Also, the 1.0g deceleration from 30 to 0 takes pl... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 14 days for NIP - how many days for Court Summons? |
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 19:47
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| Not sure exactly what you are getting at but the CPS has to lay papers with the court within 6 months of the offence. You should expect a summons shortly after that time but there is no definite time limit. They have to prosecute within a "reasonable" time, a ballpark figure of 2 years is... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Young driver problems - is it all about age ? |
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 19:25
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SafeSpeed wrote: What a shame that there are no experienced 17 year olds for a comparison set!
Well, there are, but they probably would continue not to bother with licence, insurance, etc.  |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Trucks in Outer Lanes on 2 Lane Highways. Need Crawler Lanes |
| patdavies |
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 20:57
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| I What should have happened is the overtaking vehicle should have dropped back and pulled in behind the other vehicle (which is what I would have done) but I do find it hard to believe that this went on for 7 miles and you did nothing about it, possibly it may have seemed like 7 miles! I have seen ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: NIPs and the postal strike |
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 20:52
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Replies: 19
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The quote above is not entirely complete as it refers only the the posting of NIPs.
To be more precise, the NIP must be served before the 14th day following the alleged offence. It does not have to be served by post. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is there life after death |
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 20:26
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| Well in my (slightly) more impecunious days, stickers existed to cover the rust spots |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Have the judiciary been taking stupid pills? |
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 17:33
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I think he needs another type of suspended sentence.  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Petrol - Fill-up before yet another Tax Hike! |
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:47
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| BTW I went to a renownedly cheap petrol station in Salisbury today to find that for some reason they were still selling at their old prices of 92.9/93.9! Needless to say almost everything had run out on most pumps and there were queues for the remaining ones. As I was filling up the work van I gave... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Now they're tracking us through our phones |
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:37
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| This story is the Mail for God's sake. The headline (and some of the posts) imply that the content of calls will be kept - which it won't - I don't think that there is enough storage space in existence for that. Also, they talk about the ability to track a handset to within a few feet - somebody's b... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Data non-protection |
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:31
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| Then you would report it to the authorities as a fraud and S.35 of the DPA1998 kicks in, providing the necessary exemptions for the data to enable investigation. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Bikes + Small number plates = Points? |
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:12
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| Which is unlawful anyway because of the extra lettering "GB" and "87" |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Seatbelt law petition to No. 10 |
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:06
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| Just to confess, that sometimes I simply forget to put the belt on. When I started driving, the only compulsion was that anchorage points had to exist in new cars. One thing that seems to escape notice is that belts are not a rigid restraint - nor are they designed to be - they stretch under heavy l... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Fastest ever caught on camera |
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 08:45
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| This is true, it is one time where the "think of the children" argument is actually valid. I suspect most pedestrians wouldn't think to look that far down the road (which apparently is mostly SC, not DC as stated in the article) before crossing and all you need is a couple of them in the ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Bikes + Small number plates = Points? |
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 19:00
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| BSAU145d defines the mandatory size of UK number plates. It mandates the materials and the character sizes, not the plate size. I have yet to see a BS that specifically refers to the Jaguar S-type/XJ and Rover 75 as individual (lawful) sizes. But I have seen plates with the BS label on such cars. T... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 2 Years Prison for Mobile Driving |
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 09:30
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| Talking about mobile phones, I found the last line of this article interesting. Cars should be fitted with external antennas What's all that about? I would assume that by taking the antenna outside the car, it is removing the RF to a 'safer' distance from the user's head. Presumably, as a metal car... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: NIP arrived |
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 16:24
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| and agencies are under no legal obligation to give out their staffs personnel details. So how do you sort out then Einstein??? Of course the simplest way is to send it to the agency who will confirm who their drivers was and fill out the details. This is standard practise across the whole industry ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: NIP arrived |
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 16:21
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| I have just phoned Scott Pollock (my old boss) and we have gone over the situation. When the NPI arrives at Pollock they look up to see who was driving or if an agency was used. If an agency was used the NPI is forwarded to them and it is them who fill out the drivers details and return the form NO... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: NIP arrived |
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 16:11
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| what SHOULD happen is that the S172 is forwarded to the agency and they fill out the drivers details. that did not happen. my details were given to pollocks (agency admitted this was wrong of them) and they filled the details in despite knowing that not only was i not in that day (finished at 0600?... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Garage door gadget blinds police speed guns |
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 16:04
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| It would certainly have made it very difficult to get a conviction as the user would have reasonable cause to have the device whose primary purpose is to open the garage. I assume that it is actually legal in the UK. If you are talking about a radio frequency device then there are restrictions. Low... |
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