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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Use of 3-D In A Road Safety Trial -Vancouver Canada |
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 00:17
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| Absolutely disgraceful. There is so much wrong with this that I almost don't know where to start. Having a child run out in front of your car is genuinely terrifying. It has happened to me and I had to pull over for quite a while and regain some sort of concentration again. It can leave you really s... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: ‘Spy’ Lollipop Ladies to Expose Bad Drivers |
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 16:33
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Replies: 19
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| The added problem with this subject especially is that any issue surrounding children is an inherently emotive one. Whenever children are brought into a debate, certain people suddenly lose the ability to say rational things and insist that anybody who disagrees with them actively supports the harmi... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The car computer that makes speeding history |
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 09:04
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Replies: 53
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| I am curious to know how it would deal with those roads with varying speed limits. For example, there is a school near where I live and the road directly next to it is 30mph during most times of the day, but 20mph "when the lights are flashing". Can this thing read road signs or detect fla... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Cumbrian : Millom speed campaign |
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 16:54
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Replies: 172
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| I'm reminded of the scene in Lead Balloon in which Jack Dee's character, convinced that his postman is noisey enough in the morning to wake him up, is so desperate to catch him in the act that he sets his alarm so he can get up early enough to listen intently when the postman arrives. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Cumbrian : Millom speed campaign |
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 08:19
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Replies: 172
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| They built my hopes up with the first line, only for them to come crashing down again after the last line. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Biter: Bitten - Speed camera chief drove at 102mph |
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 08:59
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Replies: 40
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| I always find it funny when somebody related to the industry gets caught; suddenly speed cameras are GREAT! (although IIRC he was actually stopped by a following police car). Not entirely sure what you mean here. Do you mean that those who would normally oppose the use of speed cameras temporarily ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Biter: Bitten - Speed camera chief drove at 102mph |
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 18:17
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| I always find it funny when somebody related to the industry gets caught; suddenly speed cameras are GREAT! (although IIRC he was actually stopped by a following police car). Not entirely sure what you mean here. Do you mean that those who would normally oppose the use of speed cameras temporarily ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Biter: Bitten - Speed camera chief drove at 102mph |
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 16:36
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| You have to question the motives of somebody who makes a living from a device which is based on a premise they don't acknowledge or believe. I would like to say that he should be treated the same as everybody else, but that's not true. Somebody in his position should be made an example of. He could ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: £15.00 victim surcharge on fpn fines possible |
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 09:16
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Replies: 75
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| Before we continue this hideously familiar argument, I would like stevegarrod to answer these questions: 1. Do you believe that exceeding the speed limit is inherently dangerous? 2. When you talk about "speeding" and "excessive speed", are you referring to exceeding the speed lim... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed reduction consultation - We need to fight this HARD! |
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:28
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Replies: 46
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| I have also seen it mentioned that the blanket reduction of speed limits will accompany other measures such as improved standards in driving tests and better engineering. Would it be unfair to suggest that the anti-rationale campaigners will use improvements brought about by these things to justify ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Pot Holes to be left to help SLOW Drivers ! |
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 08:41
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Replies: 54
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| Just read about this on the BBC website. I am almost lost for words, this is amazing. I can't believe anybody could think like this way. Potholes are dangerous for cars, bicycles, motorcycles, and pedestrians and I fail to see any case for opposing their repair. Potholes cause big problems for cars ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 2008 Stats - German speaking countries |
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:02
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Replies: 8
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| I take it that Germany is in Recession too ? There is a most interesting scientific article that I have been (not read yet as been on the road traveling), sent that the writer has spoken at length to me about that shows how during recession times fatal accidents stats always go DOWN. This is due to... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Spare wheels |
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:07
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Replies: 70
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| My tyre completely blew out yesterday on the 6006. Front driver's side tyre was done for, but as it was on the inside of the tyre and completely out of side even if you got under there, I had no idea. Was driving along and in half a second it had no air in it. Asked a mechanic and he said there's so... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: SlowAP drivers |
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 20:20
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Replies: 306
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| How on earth can one person's actions be deemed acceptable simply on the basis that at that time those observing could do nothing about it? The ability for an act or object to "unacceptable" depends on whether it is possible to reject it. If you have no power to reject it, it is impossibl... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: SlowAP drivers |
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 13:29
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| Yet it's futile. It would do just as much good to grumble about the rain or the wind! Drivers (like the weather) are what they are, and grumbling makes no odds. But we do grumble about rain and wind an other things like politicians which we cannot change. Grumbling relieves the stress so it is far ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: SlowAP drivers |
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 13:27
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| Well, I can concede that made at least one mistake, and that was entertaining the absurd ramblings of some clueless double-yolker in the first place. How many threads has this guy derailed? How dare you refer to one of our fellow posters in such terms? I mentioned no names in that bit. Guilty consc... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: SlowAP drivers |
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:56
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| Well, I can concede that made at least one mistake, and that was entertaining the absurd ramblings of some clueless double-yolker in the first place. How many threads has this guy derailed? I would suggest to you, Abercrombie, that you re-read the post in which I described the old lady who stayed ar... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: SlowAP drivers |
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 21:50
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| I became stuck behind ...an elderly woman. she driving excessively slowly she was also braking suddenly for no reason at all she indicated to go in the same direction looked like she was going for it instead of doing that, she broke suddenly The amazing thing is the number of time that you were &qu... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: SlowAP drivers |
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 20:18
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| I was on the A6006 in North Leicestershire in rush hour a few weeks ago heading towards towards the A46. The 6006 isn't a fantastic road, but between the villages it's NSL and you can comfortably do 60 for long stretches. A couple of miles before the turning on to the A46 slip road, I became stuck b... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Bill Bailey (comedian) banned from driving |
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 19:22
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| Full article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7928975.stm Bailey, 43, was caught on a speed camera driving at 40mph in a 30mph zone when he was in Cornwall to give a performance at the Eden Project. He was given three penalty points by Liskeard magistrates but was banned due to prev... |
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