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The best way to stop most road deaths
lambert:
Interesting fact. The number of road deaths has stayed fairly stable for the last 15 odd years despite the number of road users going up lots.
Boddle:
--- Quote from: JumboBeef on July 14, 2008, 17:42:08 ---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.
--- End quote ---
Unfortunately you are very badly wrong there, Both Text or using the phone and drink driving are and bigger causes for accidents at this moment in time than speeding is.
not to sure of the figures but last I heard phone use was nearly 20% of accidents drunk drive(which may or may not include speeding) 10% Speeding was about 5% most incidents are cause by people drive without due care and attention. Hence my earlier statement about better training and more sevear penaties for the use of mobile phone along the line of dangerous driving EI a minimum of 2 year ban £1000 fine a retest and 6 points on your licence for 2 years when you get back driving.
Please note if the phone is found to be the cause of an accident you be done for dangerous driving now.
Phone usage does not just kill those involve in the incident, it has taken many lives of those who where on the other end when the accident happened, People have been unable to live with that fact afterwoods and taken there own lives.
SimonHarwood:
The main factor is not paying proper attention to the traffic. This can be by not looking at the road at all (while sending or reading text messages) or by concentrating on other things while talking on the phone, sorting out which CD to put on next, re-tuning your radio!, etc. If you are speeding it means that you have less time to react when you start paying attention again and find that you are about to hit someone... assuming that you start paying attention before you hit them.
When driving, the act of driving should have your undivided attention.
TDi90:
--- Quote from: henryandlesley on July 10, 2008, 22:50:43 ---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.
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i can tell your a trucker ;)
ridiculous idea. :shock: [-X
freelanderpx54:
Jumbobeef - your example shows that speed kills and I agree. BUT, speed itself does not kill, it takes other factors. You need to take into account things like driving experience, type of car blah de blah. If Lewis Hamilton was recorded on film as avoiding a particularly nasty accident spot then he would be regarded as a hero because of his driving style. However, if a gifted chav ( fairytale time I know) did the same manouvere (sp) and lost it would be a completely different story.
We all drive under the banner of "There but for the grace of god I drive" and fortunately we get home BUT sometimes we don't and it is the reasons we don't that we need to examine. Statistics can be warped to mean what we want
Imagine,, the time period is Jan to March 2007. Crime is running at 100 incidents in inner city Salford. But in Worsley, it is running at 1 incident
Fast forward to Jan to March 2008. Crime is running at 101 incidents in inner city Salford but in Worsley it is running at 3 incidents
Based on those figures, Inner City Salford has seen a crime rise of 1% but Worsley - an affluent area has seen a rise of 300%
Where would you buy a house based on statistics?
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