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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Police Force drop Motorcycle patrols due to H&S |
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 17:48
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: The road safety messages are increasing risk of death |
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 19:36
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| Winding all the way back to the original topic of the Cinema/TV advert, am I alone in feeling very uncomfortable at the implied message that 'if you hit me at 30mph or less, I will just get up and walk away' whereas the reality is that the little girl will probably be seriously injured, mentally tra... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Hammond |
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 22:04
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Draco wrote:
Yet y'know.....I can't feel too sorry for him as his £millions must help to soothe the pain he feels.
If he really is suffering from Clinical Depression, what does the amount of money he has have to do with it?  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Silly Rules |
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:23
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| Are you aware of the conditions under which legally licenced handguns had to be kept, prior to the ban? Precisely. Locked safe or gun cabinet, regular police inspection and so on. A study by the Metropolitan Police of 657 armed robberies in the London area from January 1988 to June 1991 found that ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Drivers who kill could escape being sent to jail |
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 00:33
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| Gary Hart would not have been gaoled if he had simply ended up in a field and he shouldnt have been gaoled simply because he was unlucky enough to land on a railway line. The Gary Hart conviction has always looked dodgy. Yes he was culpable for DWDCA for driving when he had had little sleep, but he... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Silly Rules |
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 00:28
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How does it? There is a proliferation of illegal weapons which has not been addressed by the ban. If you know where to go there are pubs in most major cities where you can get a pistol for about £250, no questions asked. Please explain what the ban on legal guns has done to address that.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Silly Rules |
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 18:13
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The figures I gave were for Total Legislation. If you take the figures for Primary Legislation for the same two periods, they are 934 and 944 respectively, so not much variation. Any legal folk on here who can explain the difference?
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Silly Rules |
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 15:50
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Ziltro wrote: Thousands. They are (or should eventually) all be available here: http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/
Total Legislation Passed 1987-1996 = 12288
1997-2006 = 23432
I really should get out more  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: SatNav and Theft |
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 18:47
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| This may have been mentioned before, but a colleague told me of an elctrician he employed who lived near Wrexham and while on holiday in Devon, had his car stolen, with SatNav in it. On returning home in a hire car, the house had been cleaned out. Various people have been suggesting not putting a to... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Silly Rules |
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 17:03
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| "Silly" is no the problem - sadly, this thread proves that their are people who approve of legislation others think "silly" (that includes me, but I won't say which ;) ). To me the problem is unnecessary and/or ineffective legislation and regulation. Motoring is full of both. Fo... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Silly Rules |
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 00:14
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| I find it hard to believe anyone would think banning hand guns is silly. Last year the uk had 58 murders using firearms. Not bad! So despite the ban, 58 people were murdered with guns. Those will be the easily available illegal ones then... Governments think that when you ban somthing the problem g... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Independent 11 December 2007 |
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:16
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| John Simister: If a speeding cop sees the light, then hallelujah! Published: 11 December 2007 So the chief constable of South Yorkshire Police and speed-camera evangelist Meredydd Hughes has been found guilty of travelling at 90mph on a road with a 60mph limit. That it happened in North Wales, where... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Sensible Policing |
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 15:53
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| Just listening to KGSR Radio Austin in Texas and there was a news item concerning road safety. They have recent statistics published stating that there has been a large increase in collisions caused by tailgating. The Chief of Police has responded by putting an extra 50 Motorcycle Police (yes thats ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Road Signs Reduce Safety |
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:17
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| From todays 'Independent': Sharing the road: a sign of the times? It sounds like a crazy idea, but the German town of Bohmte is getting rid of its road signs By Tony Paterson Published: 17 September 2007 There is only one sign that warns you that all other traffic signs are being abolished in the sm... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: BBC Bias |
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 17:10
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| Deliberately provocative? Surely not... I think most of the Hay-on-Wye coverage was on Sky ('Hay on Sky') Perhaps as you say that number of hours of Glastonbury or Snooker is too much, but then how much is too much? If I was passionate about snooker which I am not, I might be more than happy. I thin... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: BBC Bias |
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 15:48
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| For my part, I just look at their recent output. Endless visits to the Hay on Wye Literary Festival to listen to droning bores; wall to wall coverage of Glastonbury mud. Depends if you like or don't like things literary and/or Glastonbury. So the BBC is biased because it puts out programmes on subj... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Car Defect? |
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 21:59
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M25 crash... |
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 10:00
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| It was a full size minibus and was intact after the collision, still strapped on. The cab section appeared to have gone under the rear of the artic trailer. It seems that half the occupants including the groom had gone on ahead in another recovery vehicle from the same company. I would not have thog... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Carnage in Stretford .. but was this high speed? |
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 18:42
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Forum: General Chat Topic: public transport and the unions |
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 21:57
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Rewolf wrote:
To me a 4% pay rise seems to be a very good offer indeed.
Well I haven't had a pay rise since 1999, so I am with you on that one!
Regards
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