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henryandlesley:
Who aggrees with me that if this goverment pays more attention to reducing the speed down to 70 mph in cars by fitting a speed limiter.

carbore:
Totally disagree.

Why is someone doing 80 who is looking where they are going in a well maintained car more likely to have a crash than someone paying no attention to anything smoking a fag in a clapped out car.
The person who cut me up an the roadabout today was not speeding, if I had not guessed he was an idiiot then maybe me 6 week old child would be in hospital tonight.
Why did I see to old people step out in front of cars today without looking
Why did I see a fat old woman strep out in front of a car so she could get to he parked car, she was only 10 feet from a crossing but it was too much effort.
Why do people drive 10 feet from my bumper on the middle lane instead of over taking me.

Id put a metal spike in front of everyones setting wheel and have national run soemone over days. There would be a lot more care shown by people.

SteveGoodz:
Nope. Speed does not kill - poor driving (which includes the inappropriate use of speed) kills and it's mostly (i.e. 90+%) the driver that is the cause of crashes. When a car crashes into kids on a crossing at 40mph it's not the speed's fault - it's the driver!

IF any government was truly concerned about reducing road deaths they would make professional tuition compulsory for learners, make the L-test FAR harder than it currently is, include motorway training at learner stage and have re-tests every 10 years. Oh yes, they'd also increase the number of traffic police by about 100% to the levels they were at 10 years ago.

Damn, where did that soap box come from  :lol:

Llanigraham:
No, totally not.
Firstly, how would you do it?
Who would pay for the limitier to be fitted to EVERY vehicle?
Secondly, most road deaths actually occur in urban areas where the speed is often less than 40mph. Logically therefore you should limit speeds to that.
Thirdly, most road fatalities are actually caused by pedestrians being hit by cars, so it doesn't matter what speed they are doing.

What we actually need is Policemen back on road patrols, stopping and warning bad/poor drivers, plus better education and tuition.

And if you are thinking of the RTC last night, I have to ask what were 6 young people doing in a Sierra/Mondeo? That has invalidated the insurance automatically.

crazymac:
And on top of all that..................better education for pedestrians, and realistic interpretation of health and safety laws.

That way you would not have to ban bull bars et al, the idiot jumping into the road in front of you would know that cars hurt when they hit you!!

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