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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: It's Official - Low Speed Kills |
| Maaarrghk! |
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 22:04
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| Ah! The old trick there from TRL. Yaaaaaaaaawn....... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: It's Official - Low Speed Kills |
| Maaarrghk! |
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 20:29
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Sadly, yes Graball. But it's a start I suppose.
My hope is that groups such as Safespeed and the ABD will pick this one up and run with it. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: It's Official - Low Speed Kills |
| Maaarrghk! |
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 20:06
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| Gifts from the Danes, courtesy of Motorcycle Action Groups "The Road" magazine Issue 52. Danish Surprise: Speed Limits Up, Deaths Go Down. A two year Danish study by Road Directorate Vejdirektoratet has revealed declining road accidentshave followed an increase in speed limits. The study r... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What happened to democracy then? |
| Maaarrghk! |
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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 21:12
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| I saw it in The Times, where it went straight on to say that the government were anxious to preserve revenues accumulated from speeeeeeding fines. Oh well, at least they were honest about that bit. Boomer. Funny you should mention it, so let me tell you a tale. Last October I had my first bump in 10... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Why do they do that? |
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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 20:56
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| Thank you all for your replies and for bearing with me, as I only have time to play down at the internet at weekends these days. I should perhaps point out that I was refering to single cariageway roads and am located in West Yorkshire - maybe it is an "area" thing. If so I hope it doesn't... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Why do they do that? |
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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 21:55
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| Working away means I don't have much time for websites these days, so I shall leave this one to fester for a week and see what replies I get. In the past year or so I have noticed an alarming new trend - at least I find it quite alarming. Has anyone else noticed it? When overtaking I sometimes find ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Twice as Likely to Kill at 35mph |
| Maaarrghk! |
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 22:46
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| Trouble is that the drunk does not have to be staggering to do something staggeringly stupid as I found out aged 19 when one ran out from the front of a parked Transit straight into my car. It would not necessarily have to be on a motorway to cause a tailback - any busy road would do. Anyone had any... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Twice as Likely to Kill at 35mph |
| Maaarrghk! |
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 17:07
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| Thanks Toltec. I do already do the things that you stated, but more by instinct and motorcycle rider training rather than by anything I was taught whilst learning to drive. I should state there that I learned to drive at a time when the Green Cross Code was being drummed into everyone and it was not... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Twice as Likely to Kill at 35mph |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 21:50
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| It might be useful to point out here that them there stopping distances on the back of the Highway Code are split into 2 segments. The first is the thinking distance - time to react. OK this can be different for different drivers and even for the same driver on different occassions. I assume that so... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Twice as Likely to Kill at 35mph |
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 16:41
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| Or of course it could be perfectly logically (if true) turned on its head. "If I walk out in front of a car doing 35mph I am twice as likely to kill myself than walking out in front of a car doing 30mph". But let's not stray too far from the original question. Was this assertion really bas... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Twice as Likely to Kill at 35mph |
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 21:33
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| Many of you will know that famous strawberry blond petrolhead and Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans recently had to do a speed awareness course. Of course this must have been seen by some as a golden opportunity by the "speed kills" lobby to gain a new convert and I am sure that all the stops will ha... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Government slashes motoring red tape |
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 21:18
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| Sad that once again the chance has been missed to put the name of the OWNER of a vehicle on the V5 as well as the person responsible for taxing the vehicle. I could still steal a car and apply for a V5 after notifying the local Police that the car is the subject of an ownership dispute. The Police w... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: That's Britain - What Annoys You ? |
| Maaarrghk! |
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 21:07
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| I disagree. Speed cameras are not a green thing at all. They and inappropriately low limits force me to drive in a lower gear in order to maintain good control of the car. To have the benefit of both engine braking and good accelleration, I have to travel in 3rd gear out of 6 in 30mph limits. In a 4... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: So is it or not? |
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 18:32
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| Thank you all for your help on this one and apologies for letting the thread fester on its own this past week. I spread myself far too thinly over the internet these days. Botach, I had the good fortune to be taugh to drive (over 30 years ago) by a retired Road Traffic Police Inspector. He became a ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: So is it or not? |
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 13:18
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| Botach. A return to those days was what I was hoping for with this one. :) Jomukuk. Most informed answer of all thus far, but can you provide a bit more? For instance, is breaking the speed limit a recordable offence as defined by the National Police Records (Recordable Offences) Regulations 2000? I... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: So is it or not? |
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 22:38
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| I've been having a discussion on a classic car forum, where another poster insists that breaking a speed limit is a CRIMINAL offence. Me, I'm not so sure, but would certainly like a definite answer. This chap syas that his recent application for home insurance included the question"Have you eve... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Camera On Test |
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 15:41
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| I wonder if it was one of those tax disc spotting cameras. It would not surprise me if they were being tested as permanent fixtures instead of having a couple of Police Officers sat there with a unit on a tri-pod for half the day. APNR - that's the bunny. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed camera in Wimborne Road vandalised |
| Maaarrghk! |
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 15:36
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Yes. I wonder who will be the first to get done for warning drivers behind of a speed trap/camera by use of his brake lights?
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Where are the Swiss family cats and their friendly policeman |
| Maaarrghk! |
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 19:35
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Replies: 36
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Thanks for the update there Steve.
A master of the art of moving the goalposts that one was! |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Where are the Swiss family cats and their friendly policeman |
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 13:23
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Eeeeee, the good old days eh?
Does anyone remember Basingwerk?
Does anyone care what became of him?
Me neither. |
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