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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: How dangerous is your driving? |
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 14:07
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| I was honest too. 85% "Very Safe". I thought the question about adjusting the stereo should have mentioned whether or not in you car it can be done using controls on the steering whwwl withouttaking your eyes off the road or not. I often make adjuctments, but only using the steering wheel ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: DVLA does it again |
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 17:34
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| By that I mean rubbed me up the wrong way. I recently recieved a letter from them impoosing a £80 "penalty" (halved if paid within a week) on me because a vehicle I no longer own does not have a tax disc or SORN. They say that since their records show me as the registered keeper, I am resp... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Music Matters - according to DriveSafe Manchester. |
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 23:23
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| Yes, if you ae moved by a piece of music, it is probably best noy to play itwhilst driving. Personally, I tend to stick to Radio 2 or Classic FM, but even they sometimes moving stuff. I also avoid jazz, becuse I dn't like it, and the out of tune singing annoys me. an annoyed driver is a bad driver. ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Jim Fitzpatrick calls for zero drink drive law |
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 13:57
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| Well, if they bring in 0%, it will be just about impossible to drive legally, since we will always be over the limit. So we might as well have a few drinks then, instead of abstaining completely when driving as I do. If you are going to drink and drive, there will be no point in limiting youself to ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Do we have Jeremy Clarkson on board? |
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 17:52
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| We could do with a more mature version of clarkson. How about someone like Jason Plato? Or Jon Bentley? Someone high up in the institute of advanced motorists or even ROSPA would also be a good choice. Whoever it is needs to have a good driving record with a clean licence and have a safe driving hi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A speed camera on every corner to enforce new 20mph limit |
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 17:06
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| Considering that a lot of the people who are advocating this are almost certainly climate change zealots, have they though about what effect 20mph limits everywhere will have on CO2 emissions? But I've already noticed 20mph zones appearing on some main roads (well, "A" roads anyway) where ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 2 Years Prison for Mobile Driving |
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 15:16
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| Yes, I agree. We have als seen them, and contuinue to see them often. Someone driving erratically, usually a bit slower than the prevailing traffic so causing an obstruction to the traffic flow, and clearly not paying attention to thier driving. Overtake and pull alongside and what do we see - on th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Drink-driving |
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 14:36
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| Yes, of course it is absurd that a tiny difference is blood alcohol concentration is deemed to be the difference between a safe driver and an irresponsible drunk. The problem is that if we are going to legislate on blood alocohol level, we have to have a limit somewhere, and wherever you put it that... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Drink-driving |
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 14:16
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| Yes, I agree, I never drink at all if I am driving. I know I would never forgive myself if I caused an accident and somebody got hurt or killed and I had been drinking. Even though I would probably never know whether I would have avoided the accident had I not had the drinks, I would feel bad about ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: An interesting read on climate change |
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 13:16
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| Sorry if I have offended any religious people, but I'm just using religion as an example. No offence taken. As a christian I know that my faith is a belief, and has nothing to do with scientific proof, so why should I be offended. The existence or non-existence of a God cannot be proven by scientif... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Undertaking and foreign cars |
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:51
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| but usually the lane changes are done at a time when you are moving and you're manouevring around that annoying driver who decides it's good policy to leave the gap of 4 cars in front of him. Let's see 4 cars, assuming a generaous 5m per car is 20m, or about 60 feet. At motorway speeds that is nowh... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What do you think of this use of fog lights? Discuss. |
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 09:05
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| I actially used my rear foglights last Sunday, driving my camper van along the coast north of Whitby where there was thick coastal fog. Being Sunday morning, there was very little traffic about, and usually there was no other vehicle in sight. I'm another driver who only uses rear fogs in thick fog ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Paul Smith ill |
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 13:01
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I've just seen the annoncement. I was shocked.
Get well soon Paul! We need you. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed camera vandal jailed. The Sun, 9 Aug 07 |
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 22:11
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| Indeed I read an article which asked "what will it take before they lock up Pete Doherty", singer of Babyshambles? This parasite has been provided with numerous chances with respect to multiple convictions. If you refuse to pay your council tax however, it's stright to jail; the judicial ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What we should do to cut road accidents is this. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 22:05
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| 3) Northern Ireland already has a probation period for new drivers where they have a maximum speed restriction of 45 mph for 1 year. I think a speed restriction for probationary drivers is NOT a good idea. The idea of probation is to help drivers to gain experience. Limiting their speed simply mean... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What we should do to cut road accidents is this. |
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 23:46
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| he is just reposting stuff I've mentioned already. Most other forms of transport require higher levels of training to get bigger and more powerful vehicles. I think we all should have to apply for "bigger" cars. The amount of times you see someone driving a huge car - and struggling to pa... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What we should do to cut road accidents is this. |
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:42
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| I agree that limiting the power of the cars new drivers can drive is of limited value. You don't need a high powered car to drive irresponsibly, although there could be some element of irresponsible youngsters being attracted to high powered cars. And this is the real issue, responsibility. Unfortun... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Pay as you drive 'threat to privacy' |
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 17:28
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R1Nut wrote: That will get thrown out as it isn't petitioning for anything. 
There are still a few days left to sign my petition, asking the government to be forced to take notice of petitions that get more than a certain number of signatures. I had about 1100 signatures only, the last time I looked. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Something is wrong! |
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 14:16
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Replies: 46
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| but at the moment there is nothing currently available which could prevent or deter a manic from going too fast in the wrong place, time or situation True, and that includes speed cameras. For two resons 1. Speed cameras do not some how magically apply the brakes of any speeding car that passes the... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Something is wrong! |
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 13:10
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| Well, I saw a fine example this morning, driving along a fairly narrow suburban road, I slowed to stop at the red traffic lights and was overtaken by a VW PASSAT doing around 50mph (30 limit), which then drove straight though the red lights, fortunately without hitting anything. When I caught up wit... |
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