Originally Posted by
Oranoco
Typical knee jerk reaction by anti speeders.
Old boy up my mums road complained after a crash outside his house. He was jumping up and down about the excess speed and that "we must have a camera before somebody is killed"
Unfortunately for him my brother was outside and saw the crash (made statement to police as well) and it was in fact caused by his daughter turning straight across the path of an oncoming car who didn't even have a chance to brake before impact.
Oddly he didn't respond to my reply letter that was printed the week after pointing this out.
And on another note the council won't care as it's a good excuse for them to spend their budget in that area. I work in local authority and was shocked to discover that my brothers accident is down on the official stats as being a speed related collision even though it was caused by a driver failing to stop at the T junction. If the safety lot can dump the blame on speed they will as it justifies their own existance. It's all politics and it absolutely sucks!
it was speed related, the guy was going to fast to be able to stop in time, so that justifies a speed camera
and do you know what else?
road deaths are all collated by peole who die on the road, NOT by peole who die as a reslut of a car crash
so someone who commits suicide off of a bridge is officially a road death, same with someone who has a heart attack in the street so there are a lot of figures that don't actually relate to actual peole being injured in cars by people being silly
Originally Posted by
jammy86
I have to agree with this, I think in days gone by where the roads were quiet it was fine, but its not suitable for todays levels of traffic and size of vehicles, really annoys me. Also the parking within 2 car lengths of the end of a street that should be upped to 4 car lengths min imho.
JAmes
double yellow lines on the corners for at least 20 metres
and it's actualy illegal from what i've read to park within 10 metres of a turning in any case