Tractors to pullover

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-28328...
It would help if they hadn't closed so many laybys in the past

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skyrover said:

Same situation applies to two lane roads as well... these were just the first images that popped up on google for me

It would certainly help lower deaths on UK country roads as well

Go on then how would it do that?
Aren't most accidents on rural roads within the built up bits (villages) or junctions not the scene in the photo?

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skyrover said:

Relatively speaking, we have fantastic driving education here in the UK... the fact is our rural roads are by far our most dangerous due to their physical nature

Which part of their physical nature?

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skyrover said:

saaby93 said:

skyrover said:

Relatively speaking, we have fantastic driving education here in the UK... the fact is our rural roads are by far our most dangerous due to their physical nature

Which part of their physical nature?

The narrow, twisty, blind cornery part of them

Need to get to the bottom of this
Rural roads includes the villagery bits
A couple of years back we looked at accidenty maps and most were in the villagery bits or at a bad junctiony rather than the blind cornery parts where you tend to watch out.

Do you think when the headline is 'dangerous rural roads' most people think of an empty road rather than a couple of cars, one parked outside the village post office?

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skyrover said:

saaby93 said:

Need to get to the bottom of this
Rural roads includes the villagery bits
A couple of years back we looked at accidenty maps and most were in the villagery bits or at a bad junctiony rather than the blind cornery parts.

Do you think when the headline is 'dangerous rural roads' most people think of an empty road rather than a couple of cars, one parked outside the village post office?

When was the last time you saw a car on it's roof in a village?

Ah right
I've seen one alongside a fast A road - that will be rural
and one in town where one car clipped another - that's not rural
What about non-onroofers?

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DonkeyApple said:

Or leave earlier if it really is an issue. Smart people factor in common risks when they travel a stretch of road regularly and if getting caught up could cause timing issues.

Probably best to leave the day before, just in case, and stay overnight somewhere.
No that won't work as you might get held up on the way to your overnight stay, so leave a day earlier and book 2 nights.

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Boydie88 said:

This. I regularly end up behind the local school bus on my country road commute and don't bother over taking simply because there is little gain from the few minutes it saves me. So rather than squeezing down the side of the bus and risk hitting a pot hole with the offside, I'm happy to sit behind for a few miles averaging 30 mph instead of 50mph.

More often than not the slow vehicle will end up taking a different route within the next 5 miles so I'm unlikely to lose anything more than a few minutes out of my life, so unless there is really wide and very clear stretch of road I don't bother overtaking.

The argument is not that you should try to squeeze past into the proverbial pothole but that slower traffic should pull over if a queue builds behind.


HTH

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Boydie88 said:

saaby93 said:

The argument is not that you should try to squeeze past into the proverbial pothole but that slower traffic should pull over if a queue builds behind.


HTH

But there are plenty saying the slow traffic isn't the problem and instead moaning at those that don't overtake.

Maybe it's a conspiracy.
Instead of overtaking, 7 of them queue up behind to force the tractor to pull over

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DonkeyApple said:

Ultimately there are only really two reasons why someone gets irate at being held up, firstly they have either not bothered to factor in a time cushion or secondly, they have deep seated anger issues. Bummed by an 'uncle', that sort of thing.

Just to test if anything you say is true, who have you known like that?

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Ha ha
Following on from the opening link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-28328...
It looks like Dyfed Powys have found their own solution



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-28415798

Who's going to overtake now

Edited by saaby93 on Tuesday 22 July 22:08