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http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Speed-camera-is-petrolbombed.5252047.jpI know this location well. The camera is situated 300 yards after a junction just over the brow of a bridge. Nasty looking skid mark appeared there recently as well 

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That's how Nazi Germany started. They'll be burning books next. (Brian Noble, Wigan coach - updated 20/4/06!!).

Safety skid mark.

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Andrew.

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Authorities-pledge-to-catch-speed.5255284.jp
They are moving heaven and earth to catch the culprits!!

They obviously place the well being of their income generator ahead of the safety of local children and communities...


There have been several tragedies on this stretch of road already. However, they don't seem to have involved breaking the speed limit.

In a stroke of irony, the resident who asked for traffic calming, got a chicane outside his home. Now he cannot leave his driveway in peak times, because traffic is backed up behind the chicane, and drivers wont give way and let him out for fear that oncoming waiting traffic will set off and keep THEM held up!

Some councillors are of the opinion that the traffic calming is actually CAUSING accidents - two drivers collided head on in a chicane. The Highways Department claimed that is not the case, it was simply a misunderstanding over who had right of way!

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Time to take responsibility for our actions.. and don't be afraid of speaking out!

I have never been happy with chicanes. Misunderstandings and errors DO occur and highway design should (as far as is possible) try to mitigate the consequences of them. deliberatly creating a situation where a simple error of judgement or misunderstanding will result in a head on collision (even a low speed one) is clearly not a good idea, but then I'm just an engineer, not a highly qualified council hghways officer!

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"The road to a police state is paved with public safety legislation"

Dusty your forgetting that chicanes bring drivers under the speed limit and once your under the speed limit nothing bad can happen. I bet one or both of the drivers was speeding when they collided and thats what caused the collision!

In Windermere, we have a chicane on a bend.

I protested against it when it was proposed to no avail.
The situation is made worse by vehicles parked on the inside of the bend, and drivers who DON'T have priority, speeding up to get themselves onto the chicane before anything comes the other way, meaning drivers approaching the chicane who DO have priority have to be both very observant and cautious, AND quick on the brakes!

There have been so many near misses, and what is worse is that it is a raised chicane, close to the entrance to the recreation ground, which is used as a crossing point by children and adults, who think the narrowed width makes it safer to cross there!

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Time to take responsibility for our actions.. and don't be afraid of speaking out!

I DO hope you are being sarcastic!!!!

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

No, just ironic

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

It was either that or



If he just said the text in red it would of made more sense!

When I first joined the forums I though Britains roads were the same as Ireland's and while most of what was said I agreed with, I thought people were making a fuss over nothing on others. then I went to Belfast for a weekend, big change since then