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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 'Unproven' Driving Safety Course Changes Gear |
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 17:24
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| This raises questions as to whether it should just be accepted that newly qualified drivers have a higher risk, and that relatively little can be done to improve this. A number of things have been tried over the last decade or so, like making the test harder (or at least limiting the acceptable numb... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: We won't reveal camera fines because some are switched off, |
| JPW |
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 19:49
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Replies: 27
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| Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership’s Ellie Hynes wrote: Increased speeds mean a higher risk of injury to road users and members of the public . Aren't the vast majority (if not all) road users 'members of the public' - I suppose you could exclude police and other highway patrols when they are on... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 50% of Experienced Drivers Would Fail Test |
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 21:00
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Replies: 4
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| An interesting article in the Mail (bottom of P3) today suggesting 50% of experienced drivers (10 - 30 years) would fail their test if they retook it. Half of those that failed did so for 'dangerous driving' offences which carry instant disqualification from the test. This has raised an interesting ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Road deaths fall by 14% |
| JPW |
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 19:40
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Replies: 58
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| Greenshed if you want to demonstrate a causal link between the current change in road deaths and road safety policy you will have to indicate what changed in a policy which has been long running to suddenly have this impact. The other users of this board have indicated a number of factors which have... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "Pedestrians are at fault for 74% of pedestrian casualties" |
| JPW |
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 20:14
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Replies: 39
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| Thank you for the welcomes. Steve I agree my analysis was very simplistic. All I was trying to do is demonstrate that the data given by stevegarrod was not incompatible with the head line of the DfT report. I hope I achieved this in a back-of-an-evelope way. I am sorry if I didn't do this completely... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "Pedestrians are at fault for 74% of pedestrian casualties" |
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 18:59
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| Having lurked on this forum for years I felt I must reply to this topic as stevegarrod appears to have proved the point for steve. As stevegarrod points out just taking the number of pedestrian killed on pavements and crossinggs between 1998 and 2005 was 1009 out of 6318 (stevegarrod's figures I hav... |
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