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The best way to stop most road deaths
Rich_P:
What ever happened to the saying "Drive accordingly to the conditions of the vehicle and the road"? :undecided:
My understanding of speed limits is to help try to prevent clowns racing through areas that should be driven at slower speeds, because as people have commented there are some rather silly folk who race about in the country lanes and end up coming head to head with other vehicles. Sometimes though, "revenge" can be sweet as the charging vehicle dives off into a ditch or something to avoid having a head on with a big tractor. :lol:
lambert:
Speed does not kill in and of itself. If you travel at 100 mph you don't die. This is a fact.
If you are however hit by a sufficiently massive object moving at a sufficiently high speed you will die.
What causes such an impact is an almost infinite variable.
JumboBeef:
Drinking and driving does not kill by itself.
Texting and driving does not kill by itself.
Speed, drinking and texting increases the likelyhood of an accident/death.
V8MoneyPit:
--- Quote from: Rich_P on July 14, 2008, 11:43:01 ---What ever happened to the saying "Drive accordingly to the conditions of the vehicle and the road"? :undecided:
My understanding of speed limits is to help try to prevent clowns racing through areas that should be driven at slower speeds, because as people have commented there are some rather silly folk who race about in the country lanes and end up coming head to head with other vehicles. Sometimes though, "revenge" can be sweet as the charging vehicle dives off into a ditch or something to avoid having a head on with a big tractor. :lol:
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I sometimes wonder whether people would drive at more appropriate speeds if there were no speed limits. In the example I gave earlier, he was driving at a speed based on the limit signs, not the road conditions.
I guess the limit signs are there to help people who struggle to make the correct judgement of what speed they should be doing. Frankly, if they need that type of help, they shouldn't be allowed on the roads at all.
SteveGoodz:
--- Quote from: JumboBeef on July 14, 2008, 10:00:49 ---
Speed killed my friend and her daughter: if the other car hadn't been speeding, it wouldn't have lost control on that bend, end of story.
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I'm sorry for the loss of someone you obviously miss but it's not possible to say that had the other driver been doing the speed limit he wouldn't have still caused the collision and killed your friend. Unless you are saying that it's not possible (due to the laws of physics) to get around that corner at more than 50mph (in which case the limit should be set well below that and maybe the local highways authority should shoulder some of the blame) then the reason the driver lost control was lack of ability and that lack of ability might just as well have manifested itself at 30mph as it did at 60 (or whatever).
Speed may well have been a contributing factor but the over-riding reason for the collision was driver error.
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