Speed awareness worth doing?

[BertBert]

alock said:

As an example, if someone could find statistics that show someone doing x% over the limit 10 seconds before the impact (i.e before they attempted their breaking maneuver) is more likely to cause serious injury or death then that would be good education!

Nah, disagree, it's still bad. The right education is how not to him them surely?
Bert

[Pete317]

alock said:

As an example, if someone could find statistics that show someone doing x% over the limit 10 seconds before the impact (i.e before they attempted their breaking maneuver) is more likely to cause serious injury or death then that would be good education!

Thinking about it, you cover more than a football pitch in 10 seconds at 30mph, which is actually quite huge and plenty of time and space to do something.

The problems arise when you only have in the order of a second or two.

[tony wright]

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Otispunkmeyer said:

They'd have been much more useful positioned on the M1 later where it rained so much there was standing water everywhere and people were still barreling down the road at 70+! Now that was dangerous!.

This is the problem though, there's no money to be made from drivers who are driving like dicks, but not breaking the law. I drove at the speed limit the other day, at the same place that introduced me to the SAC, within seconds there was an 6/7 car tailback and two of the cars actually beeped me as they overtook No matter what anyone says, including the righteous, sanctimonious SAC guys, the speed limit for the road is wrong but, a great form of revenue

[tony wright]

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Otispunkmeyer said:

They'd have been much more useful positioned on the M1 later where it rained so much there was standing water everywhere and people were still barreling down the road at 70+! Now that was dangerous!.

This is the problem though, there's no money to be made from drivers who are driving like dicks, but not breaking the law. I drove at the speed limit the other day, at the same place that introduced me to the SAC, within seconds there was an 6/7 car tailback and two of the cars actually beeped me as they overtook No matter what anyone says, including the righteous, sanctimonious SAC guys, the speed limit for the road is wrong but, a great form of revenue

[jogger1976]

mikeveal said:

jogger1976 said:

Oh dear, having a bad day, are we? I think you might need an anger management course as well as a speed awareness one

For you benefit, and also Mikeveal, when I got caught speeding - twice, yes I know, the shame! - I didn't have the luxury of a speed awareness course, because they didn't exist!

I had to suck up the the fine, points on my licence and increased insurance premiums and the first time, I had to listen to a lecture from Traffic Officer who caught me with a speed gun, so I'm well aware of the "think of the children" line.

However, I decided there and then that I was in the wrong, had been a bit of a tt and took the bking as a hard learned lesson along with the hit to my wallet.

I certainly didn't try to be all billy big boots to show what a big man I was to him or anyone else.

I guess I'll just have to accept I'll never be a powerfully built company director like you

OK, I admit. I'm wrong, you right. Your logic is incontrovertible and your superior experience clearly trumps everything we have to say.
Please accept my humble appology, your posts are not antagonistic in the slightest.
You're right. All speeding is dangerous and therefore bad and 2+2 does indeed equal 5 (YRSGT). Thank you for showing me how wrong it is to question what I'm told by the authorities, rather than simply sucking it up like someone with the intellectual capacity of a cabbage.

Sigh. You really don't get it do you? Never mind, I'm off now, as I've got better things to do than argue with strangers on an internet forum, but you go ahead and knock yourself out, mate.