Re: National Road Safety week - That means speed checks
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Well that was obviously part of it but that could be the same for other offences.
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Points, fines, bans and insurance premiums can only work if there is somebody around to impose them, but the powers that be have chosen to make BluePete an endangered species.
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The speed limits that exist today were set in 1965 with vehicles constructed to a less efficient safety standard,i.e drum brakes were the norm and safety cells,crumple zones didn't exist. Even the safety barriers on our current roads were virtually non existent then.
Perhaps moving into the 21st century would be a step forward. |
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There's a lot of talk about A road speed limits being reduced to 40mph too. This countries approach to safety is not to improve road layouts, driver behaviour/education, or enforcement, it's to legislate anything dangerous out of existence, then make everything left over go so slow, that even a blind spastic can manage to stop when it goes wrong. It's totally dumbing down driver ability. |
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Although back when the speed limits were introduced there was a hell of a lot less traffic about so there is some justification for not having the limits keep pace with cars ability.
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The governments justification is that statistically if you reduce speed you reduce accidents, which is true, but only because you've made it easier to avoid the real cause of the accident. So reducing speed is just papering over the cracks. Lets say you have a car with a turbo hose which keeps popping off under the pressure. The real answer to the problem is to make the turbo hose stronger. All our government would do is leave the turbo hose as it is, but reduce the pressure the turbo connected to it produces. |
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