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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 20:01 
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tyler durden wrote:
Surely you all have points on your licences, if cameras are causing so many accidents that result in death that never did before!

Or are you saying that some drivers actually can stay within the limit - hence no points - and stay accident free?

Make up your minds, if cameras and keeping below an 'artificial' speed limit is the cause of a loss of trend surely all you motorists would be getting either caught speeding or involved in more accidents?

Your case seems illogical to me.


I've got a clean licence.

But suppose I'm right - I believe we should have about 2,000 road deaths each year by now - say 1,400 a year less than we are getting. With 32 million drivers, then percentage affected to cause the annual death toll isn't very great - it's around 1 in 27,000 - we could have 26,999 out of every 27,000 drivers who are unaffected and still have roads that are 40% more dangerous than they ought to be.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 20:04 
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Pete317 wrote:
I don't necessarily stay within the limit - I tend to drive at speeds which I consider to be appropriate, and always have. But I've never been pinged, and have also not had an accident for going on 30 years.

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I'm also far from fanatical about observing the posted limit - but I DO drive with due care and attention, which means I spot the nasty little yellow boxes and slow down for them - and then resume driving at an appropriate speed for the conditions :wink:

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