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Ernest Marsh

Post subject: ACPO subsidiary blames speed

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 17:33

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http://www.roadsafetysupport.co.uk/our-services/road-signage-and-traffic-regulations

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It is vital for motorists to obey the speed limits and other motoring laws in order to keep our roads safe.
Road Safety Support can assist you in ensuring that your road signage is accurate and lawful and give you peace of mind that all of your Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO) are correct.
Our signage specialist has more than 30 years’ experience in traffic management and road safety within local authorities and at the Department for Transport.

Our support services include:

Assessing speed limits, traffic signs and other traffic regulations
Advice on temporary TROs and signing
Provision of expert court witnesses in cases where signage
or traffic regulations are challenged

Well that should sort out 7% of accidents due to illegal speeding!
So what do they do about the other 93 % of causes?

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malcolmw

Post subject: Re: ACPO subsidiary blames speed

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 19:44

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Road Safety Support can assist you in ensuring that your road signage is accurate and lawful and give you peace of mind that all of your Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO) are correct.

So ,the police and local authorities are so incompetent that they need to hire experts to ensure that they have properly complied with their statutory duties. Surely then, they will not mind if accused motorists hire their own experts to check all this stuff as well. It works both ways.

All of these services, of course, don't make motorists keep to the speed limits even though they claim this is the purpose in the first sentence. All they can provide is help to ensure that, if caught, a motorist has little room for a technical challenge.

How does spending police funds on this sort of advice actually increase safety?

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botach

Post subject: Re: ACPO subsidiary blames speed

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 22:28

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Very interesting. Some years ago , I came off M6 at J3, to find a setup which IMHO was dangerous ,to say the least. In those days ,we could get through to the engineer in charge and give a reason . i put mine ,and 30 mins later got a call to say that contractor had been taken to task for dangerous coning, and things had been modified. Thanks was the last word.
The "experts" HAD "KICKED UP" .How often do the so called "EXPERTS" "KICK UP" ?

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