Chat & Social > The Bar - General Chat
The best way to stop most road deaths
V8MoneyPit:
Well of course this is the problem with any government policy. There will always be a conflict of interests over taxation income vs. vote winning. They have little interest in the environment or public transport unless it has an effect on getting more tax or votes at the next election. It's simply not in their interests to do anything like this as Redhand quite rightly points out.
frosty:
I dont know about road deaths, but the best way to stop acccidents is to go on a rabbit cull.... youd be amazed how many people tell me that the reason there cars in a ditch, upside down or spread in a dozen pieces accross the road is because a cute, lovable fluffy bunny was in the road way and they couldnt possibly run over it! Cats are almost as bad!
Me personally, i think its all to do with speed, there either going to fast for the road, the conditions, the environment, there own limited abilities or the cars got 3 bald tyres and cant achieve any grip at any speed.
How to fix it? hope they grow up before they kill someone... it doesnt matter how much you tell someone, what the penalties are they will only slow down when theyve figured out there going to end up in a wheelchair or worse!
JumboBeef:
I had a friend and her three year old daughter killed 8 years ago by a speeding driver (driving too fast on a lesser A road, too fast for a bend and ran wide: hit my friend's car head on).
If they (the other car) had been travelling at the speed limit (50mph), my friend would still be alive, her daughter would be 11 now and her husband and son would still have a wife and mother.
Don't tell me speed doesn't kill.
biggerlandy:
it amazing thou when you are out and about and you see such lazy or stupid things that peaple do like, zebra crossing on road and about 10 feet away old granny or mum with push chair is barging on road to cross. and numptys like kids standing in roads and you turn a corner and they look at you like its your fault
Boddle:
No Speed itself doesn't kill it's Irresponsible behavior of the driver behind of the wheel driving at stupid speeds, You can not remove there responsibility. Yes speed makes it more likely but it itself is a small problem relatively.
1mph can kill, You can fall over when walking and die as a result (you would have to be unfortunate I guess).
Most accident that kill don't involve speed just poor judgement on the behalf of the driver. In fact the highest kill if the information I have received is people using mobile phone and Sat -Nav (watching the Sat Nav not where they are going), Both of which could be solve by people pulling over to the side of the road it a safe location.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version