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what about flashing amber lights on the main road that trigger on presence of cars waiting to exit the side road? with a sign "warning- blind junction ahead- slow down"?

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Fear is a weapon of mass distraction

Yep, or I like better "warning- blind junction ahead- be careful". Less likelyhood of speedo fixation.

I thing just "Caution- Blind junction" is better. the less wording the better really.

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Fear is a weapon of mass distraction

Yes that's the one. I always like the simplest message - it takes less attention from the road.

Having once eavesdropped FIVE local council office-based workers take HALF AN HOUR to decide on the wording for a "no dogs on beach between May and September", I wouldn't hold my breath on this happening.

Post to update on the engineering improvements implemented at the fatal junction.

At the left hand bend before the junction hatching has been painted to make cars go wider round the bend. As you go round the bend there is a "SLOW" on the road. Not bad in my opinion.

So to get rid of the 'making money' problem, let's make all speed camera offences result in points on your licence, instead of a fine.
Speed clearly kills. Speeding clearly IS responsible for causing more injuries and deaths. Would you rather somebody threw a bullet at you, or shot you with it?
If the lorry hadn't been speeding, the car driver would have had more TIME to see it coming, and the lorry driver would have had more TIME to react, more TIME to slow down, and would have avoided the car.


Could you at least try to explain why you think it's acceptable for YOU to speed, when everybody else is expected to obey the laws of the road? Have you tried racing driving, on a race track, if you need to drive over the speed limit so much, rather than risking other people's lives every day?

I can't believe there are so many sad, self-important people about, that they find it necessary to spend most of their time buying radar detectors, working out where speed cameras are, and moaning about all the money the local council is making out of them! There is a simple solution, apparently too simple for these sort of people; STOP SPEEDING.

I don't worry about speed cameras. I smile when I see a police car parked across from the end of my road, checking the speeds of all the cars that are going down the road I have to pull out onto every day.

Without speed cameras, aggressive, selfish drivers would be killing MORE people than they are currently. You presume that just because road deaths haven't fallend dramatically since the introduction of speed cameras, they aren't working! Could it not be possible that we now have more and more BAD drivers who are, despite being caught numerous times by speed cameras, still continuing to drive in their selfish, aggressive way?

What evidence exactly do you rely on to support those statements?

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Paul Smith
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"Would you rather somebody threw a bullet at you, or shot you with it?"

Depends, if was one of the 40 year old ones that was dug up on a site I visit it wouldn't make much difference they were that unstable !!

Totally OT but has anyone seen a smiley with a hardhat ??

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Gordon Brown saying I got the country into it's current economic mess so I'll get us out of it is the same as Bomber Harris nipping over to Dresden and offering to repair a few windows.

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Update from March.
The driver of the tanker has been charged with dangerous driving. They did a lot of skid tests with the original vehicle and can only guess he was travelling too fast.