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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: Zig-zag signs by speed limit signs - a distraction. |
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 22:25
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| Thanks. yes, they are lights attached to the 30 signs but they weren't illuminated at the time (quarter to 4 in the afternoon but it was very overcast so signs were mis-sable.) The street lights start just before the 30 signs. Here's a link to the limit start point on Street view (when it was photog... |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: Zig-zag signs by speed limit signs - a distraction. |
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 11:35
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| Thanks for your helpful reply. I will say the weather that afternoon was heavily overcast so the 30mph signs weren't anything like as obvious as they were on the sunny day the Google car passed through, and they weren't lit. Thee photo I was sent makes it look light night time, yet the signs would n... |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: Zig-zag signs by speed limit signs - a distraction. |
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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 02:15
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| Apparently passed a 30mph sign allegedly at 41 on a dark overcast wet afternoon recently. This would have been the location but was completely distracted by the zig-zags on the wet surface. beefordsigns.jpg I cannot find reference to them in the highway code so wonder if they are they official. It w... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Daily Politics Show BBC2 28 Jan 2009 |
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 14:04
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road deaths up for Brunstrom – again |
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 14:20
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| Can anyone get figures for the Isle of Man for the same period? Similar geographicaly and climactically to North Wales, also popular with bikers and, without speed limits outside the towns! Well that request was posted nearly four months ago and it seems no one has. I've searched the IOM Government... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Harrogate Council nonsense? |
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 09:42
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| It's not just Harrogate Council, it's endemic. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Harrogate Council nonsense? |
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 21:44
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| It's not always possible to pull over legally and safely. If you hear of a problem on the motorway you can't just stop. Trying to read a map while driving is not very sensible but glancing at a satnav is perfectly safe. Agreed 100%. And if the SatNav is reading the road names/numbers as well you do... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Harrogate Council nonsense? |
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 14:39
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| If it is it is disgraceful. I believe you are right however. How can a driver getting distressed because he is lost and cannot look a his map or use a satnav be a safe driver? What's he supposed to do? All to often roads are blocked off eg a after Motorway crash or sometimes for no real reason. Ever... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Harrogate Council nonsense? |
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 13:05
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| http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/harrogate-2031 The Highway Code Says :- You MUST NOT * drive dangerously * drive without due care and attention * drive without reasonable consideration for other road users You MUST NOT drive on or over a pavement, footpath or bridleway except to gain lawful access to p... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Where it all falls down |
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 22:02
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| Perhaps it is slightly exaggerated to make his point? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Where it all falls down |
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 19:25
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| Driving used to be a pleasurable experience in which one could take great pride. That somehow seems to have got lost in the last 15 years of potty policies. The only logical reason I can see for the obsession with numerical speed limits nowadays is that the technology has become available to raise r... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Where it all falls down |
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 19:19
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| (1) Driving provides a wide range of speed cues beyond your instrumented speed on the speedometer to which we are very sensitive: engine noise, road noise, wind noise, visual cues, accelerator position, etc. Once an absolute speed has been determined from inspection of the speedometer, that speed c... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Police, Camera, Action! |
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 18:59
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| Because of course some crook who has just turned over a security van is going to drive like your granny her way to Tesco isn't he? :roll: No doubt get let off with another warning for the GBH on the Security Van driver. Maybe just get 3 points for speeding, driving round a roundabout the wrong way,... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New speed limit set for the A171 - And no consultation? |
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 18:24
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| The only reason would seem to be to entice drivers to break the speed limit so they can have a scamera or a patrol car waiting to catch those doing around 50, a speed that was well within the limit maybe less than 24 hours earlier! It is clearly warfare on the motorist from a Government that started... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: So, where would I stand? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 14:13
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| I wasn't using my phone. What made him think you were? I keep my phone on the boot so he would have had one heck of a job trying to lecture me on that one! If you ended up with any car hitting your rear end I guess it would be best to let the insurance companies sort it out. And maybe a quiet word ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Police, Camera, Action! |
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 14:07
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| Yep, that presenter exudes extreme hypocrisy. He is no longer a suitable person to present that type of show. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New speed limit set for the A171 - And no consultation? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 13:54
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| The local rag is suggesting that the A127 is to have it's NSL down graded to 50mph. This is The Arterial into Southend and is a DC. All the way from Romford? As you say, when there is little traffic 70 is fine (when it was built 100 plus was legal and considered perfectly safe!) When it is busy you... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New speed limit set for the A171 - And no consultation? |
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 00:55
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| I agree entirely. Can they really use the excuse of accidents occurring on another part of the road some way away as an excuse to lower the limit on this particular stretch of road? The limit is already 30 where the claimed accidents occurred. Either the decision makers have lost their marbles or it... |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: So much for the justice system... |
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 00:24
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| What a dreadful experience you have had. One would think unbelievable but sadly not. You indicated the appeal would be round about now so any more news? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Ruth Kelly's car share lane |
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 23:41
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| The car share lane looked rather dangerous to me with traffic in that lane passing slower vehicles in the adjacent normal nearside lane. What do non car-share users do if they need the hard shoulder? It doesn't seem there is one! It doesn't look like the scheme has been thought through fully and I u... |
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