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Forum: General Chat Topic: Are Labour trying to deliberately lose this election? |
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:52
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Brighton Argus Newspaper - Follow up article |
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 06:07
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Replies: 3
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 19 mph - thought to have caused the carnage! |
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:58
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| http://www.theargus.co.uk/search/display.var.2186472.0.tragedy_of_m25_crash.php Mr Hutchinson, the breakdown driver, had also been up since 7.50am the previous morning, on a weekend break with his brother Mark. He had arrived at work at 7pm and clocked on to work through to 6am on the Monday mornin... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Photgrapher V pcso |
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:55
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Dusty wrote: So, what we have here is a Chinese policeman behaving like, erm, a Chinese policeman!
is that as in 'plastic policeman'? |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Off with the cats ? |
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 13:35
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Replies: 41
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weepej wrote: Doesn't take much imagination to figure what's going to a happen next in my book.
OMG - a book now? Aren't the posts enough without that? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed limit reductions? |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 05:30
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| It is allowed that a backing board may be shaped as in the picture when it incorporates the place name. However, I believe that the border does invalidate it. There is one exception to the rule that a yellow backing board must be rectangular : signs showing the name of a town or village that drivers... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: For all the trolls |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 05:23
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Replies: 393
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| I admit that it was a generalisation but it's not a misassumption because I see it happening all the time. But surely it depends on a judgment as to how likely those pedestrians are to suddenly saunter into the road. After all, pedestrians may be encountered on roads with any speed limit. Well not ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: MP's speed campaign award |
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 14:54
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Replies: 65
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| " But consistently, year on year, more people die or are seriously injured on our roads and this is unlikely to go away unless politicians take action in Parliament ," he said. This statement is incorrect anyway as nationwide there continues to be a slow fall in KSIs and fatalities are ab... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: MP's speed campaign award |
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 08:15
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Replies: 65
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| Mr Leech said he was `delighted' over the award because road safety was often overshadowed by safety concerns on other forms of transport. " But consistently, year on year, more people die or are seriously injured on our roads and this is unlikely to go away unless politicians take action in P... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: For all the trolls |
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 07:51
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hjeg2 wrote: if someone thinks it is safe to drive at 35 in a 30 when there isn't anyone around, would they actually slow down if they came across pedestrians? I think the answer is a resounding "no".
that has to be the grossest misassumption yet! |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: what was it doing there |
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 04:41
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Robina80 wrote: ...is this a speed camera or what???
I would hazard a guess that it was a police car...with the occupant(s) probably on the look out for idiot drivers or general miscreants...and - maybe - keeping an eye out for the sergeant who could disturb their donut break |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: AOL motoring news, Tuesday 15 January 2008 |
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 05:50
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| weepej - please can you: - explain why Mr Bliar thought it 'unfair for taxpayers to subsidise motorists' when only a very small proportion of taxation raised from motorists and road transport is actually spent on roads - and, therefore, why it is fair for those groups to subsidise the exchequer? - e... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 20mph tower bridge, special speed awareness course... |
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 14:08
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Replies: 6
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| are sent a Notice of Intended Prosecution form within 14 days to obtain the driver's details. Drivers n have 14 days in which to reply and accept the offer of paying to attend the workshop Presumably the normal (legal) timetables apply on S172 and any NIP that may result; of course, the 'NIP' in th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Insanity looming, 12000 miles away. |
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 04:07
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Replies: 17
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| ..."safety device" cuts engine... can't see where in the original article this is mentioned or even implied "At level two, the device cuts power to the engine..." - it's about halfway through. I can see where you're coming from but I read this as 'reducing power'....because the ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Insanity looming, 12000 miles away. |
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 04:14
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Thatsnews wrote: ..."safety device" cuts engine...
can't see where in the original article this is mentioned or even implied |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Insanity looming, 12000 miles away. |
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 06:29
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| Queensland Transport vehicle safety consultant Michael Paine said the system could cut the number of serious accidents by 20 per cent . The Herald Sun quoted an unnamed Victorian government website, which estimated the number of fatalities could be cut by almost 60 per cent if it was fitted to all ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Music Matters - according to DriveSafe Manchester. |
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 03:26
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| ...I agree with you to a point Squirrel, 'aggressive' music has the propensity to weight the right foot, but not to a degree that cannot be overcome by concious good driving practice. Discussed this very issue with a police driver/instructor some while ago when he commented that the issue of loud a... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Govt Response To "Climate Change Honesty" Petition |
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 13:39
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| ...The only point I am making in this thread is that I am highly cynical of the average bod who says they don't believe climate change theory for any reason other than self-motivated ones.... Of course a large proportion of the populace are swayed by the media - and we know that the great majority ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Big Brother Britain |
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 13:23
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Daily Mail wrote: ...the questioning must be paid for out of council tax and carried out every two years.
No indication of when it's likely to start - but there'll be, at most, only one before this government is on the unemployed register...and with no compulsion we can safely ignore it anyway |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Help us beat gridlock |
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 13:16
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| ... - now only seven of Greater Manchester's 10 local authorities are in favour of a pay-to-drive scheme in return for £3bn of public transport improvements. Am I right in thinking that: seven is the minimum number of supporting councils needed? of the remaining support, one or two are sitting on t... |
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