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Hopefully when we do, we'll not choose a simplistic solution that only tackles a small percentage of deaths from cold, like we seem to have ended up doing with road casualties.

deg C signs?

Don’t need to, they've been using flight for years with the help of the air ambulance.

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You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

You got me thinking now...

The elderly feel the cold more than young blood and may not be able to eat well and insulate their homes as well as us or excercise, so they should have 25 deg or more perhaps?

This extra is quite sensible and so depends on the circumstances. Wait a minute, that sounds familiar.

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

Don’t need to, they've been using flight for years with the help of the air ambulance. [/quote]



Just picking up on this issue of all these old people dying of flu. Well my Dad's had his flu jab this year - so why don't they do a numpty vacine?

So you really believe there should be no limits?

No, by "a road that never had a speed limit on it" I assumed he meant one that was NSL, since graball referred to 60 mph.

Highway professionals often distinguish NSL roads from ones with specific local limits.

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"Show me someone who says that they have never exceeded a speed limit, and I'll show you a liar, or a menace." (Austin Williams - Director, Transport Research Group)

Any views expressed in this post are personal opinions and may not represent the views of Safe Speed

[quote] B Cyclist[So you really believe there should be no limits? /quote]

Where on earth did he say that? Are you reading these posts because you seem to drifting in and out but making some very strange comments!

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Back on topic for a moment, if I may de-digress (regress?):

This has been touched upon earlier: why is there such a strong correlation between auto-numptyism and the wearing of hats?

I've done about 200 miles of mixed road travel today, and the chance of a numpty sporting headgear seems significantly higher than the general driving population.

Spot on Johnny, when ever you see someone wearing a base ball cap the wrong way round you really do wonder if they whats reverse and whats forward gears, and which is the brake and which it the throttle.

When I see reverse base-ball cap wearer, I say "OMG, its an accident waiting to happen, I just hope they no injure anyone else."

Flat caps, normally, by us ....

Another numpty trait spotted today. Following one in her own little world at 40MPH on a straight NSL. Overtook her safely then she flashes lights and "catches up with me" for about a mile or so, we are both doing 60MPH on a straight deserted road. I turn off after about a mile, she is so close behind me that I can smell her perfume. Is it a case of.. "oh look that man's doing 60, maybe I should follow him and see where the party is.......must be a good aftershave I was wearing....

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

I always believe they're keeping the space warm until they get a brain......

numptied by a '07 SL55 AMG today. to you.

I really hope she was just borrowing it off her husband or something, otherwise thats just depressing.

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Perhaps they get lonely driving all alone, so they dawdle along until someone catches up with them and hope they stay with them for "company",then if you overtake they have to catch you up in order not to feel lonely again. They are probably the same people who sit down right next to you on a large deserted beach.

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Regarding hat/numpty correlation, I theorise it is something to do with brain temperature.

As a baldie this explains why I am not a numpty driver!



PS If we're going to start swapping numpty sightings, I commend the Numpty Overload thread to the house.

Many years ago I got stuck in a long line of traffic following a tractor at 20 mph. When I finally got near enought to the front of the queue I could see that there was a brand new 911 with a couple who looked about 80 in it, they could have got past it in first gear but they were quite happy to sit there behind it.

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Funny cos I was driving along today and had to slow down because my perfume was a bit overwhelming. This bloke in a Honda went whizzing past me as I wound the window down, and as soon as I got some fresh air I caught the same numpty in the Honda doing 60mph went it was quite safe to 80mph. Thankfully it wasn't long before he turned off. I think he may have been a pig farmer by the smell coming through my air vents on his way to a boring Pig Farmers Convention

lol , Lucy, it wasn't me in the Honda, I was in my MR2 today but it wasn't far from the lilleshall sports centre that you mentioned the other day. I was travelling from newport to telford and turned off near a place called lilleshall

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Oh, I'm reading them all. Go back through the thread and you'll see exactly where I am coming from. The question was asked about driving along a road that had had a limit reduced. Well, they all have because in the beginning there were no limits.

There is the conspiracy view that:



Or there is the view that there actually has to be some control over driver behaviour. Drivers are only a part of society and it is right that their behaviour is subject to some controls. Limits are one way of providing a control and the best way of overhauling this is to campaign for a review of the way limits are set. Much more relevant than how you feel driving a long a road that has a changed limit. Which is more about you becoming complacent and making assumptions about the road you are on than whether you feel more or less safe.

No limits at all, what years are you on about?

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Nobody here (except the odd numpty) would suggest that there should be no speed limits. Everyone here knows that enforced limits are needed (except for the occasional troll who's just making trouble for the sake of it).