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dougc

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8,240 posts

289 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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pdV6

16,442 posts

285 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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Wasn't klm by any chance, was it?

gh0st

4,693 posts

282 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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I go home on that road

Wasnt me though!

Trust them to trot out someone who was "killed by a speeding driver"

gh0st

4,693 posts

282 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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article said:
Aurea Billings, from St Austell, Cornwall, knows personally the lethal effect of speeding.


And who the fk are you again? My auntie died of cancer. Does this make me an expert of cancer related deaths?!

deeen

6,293 posts

269 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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article said:
Aurea Billings, from St Austell, Cornwall, knows personally the lethal effect of speeding.



But it wasn't the "speeding" at 60 (or 144) that was lethal was it? It was the fact there was an accident.

mandat

4,407 posts

262 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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Slightly off subject, but looking at the photograph in the news report (of the indside of the scamvan), how is the operator supposed to get a view of the approaching traffic in order to deterimne which vehicles are exceeding the speed limit?

Safety cameras!

Marki

15,763 posts

294 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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Why when the story is about speeding do they always have to dredge up some woman who has lost some one to a traffic accident ...... propaganda at every turn

Bodo

12,507 posts

290 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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I don't know what the fuss is all about. I'm regularily driving long distances over 200km/h, environmental and technical conditions permitting.

It is no rare occurence that I can drive 100km without the speedo needle going under 210km/h, despite the road having only two lanes per direction.

No one died, no injuries, no accidents, and no brown trouser moments at all.

The safety bottleneck is certainly not speed, but inappropriate speed, which jealous lowest-common-denominator-types don't realise.

philthy

4,697 posts

264 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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gh0st said:
I go home on that road

Wasnt me though!

Trust them to trot out someone who was "killed by a speeding driver"



You know what this means ghost, no more "enthusiastic" motoring past the ideford/luton/chudleigh dip. I can't think of anywhere else he could have done it.
Knowing the road.......ahem..........I'm surprised someone else hasn't been clocked higher

gh0st-preop

4,693 posts

282 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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I have seen speed camera signs put up there recently but have never seen or dectected (via jammer) a van.

Im wondering whether its the A380 bypass, long stretch of DC before you get to the Paignton left turn...

Could get up to speed almost but yes its more likely it is the dip of dispair

Bus stop or on the grass do you think? That bus stop at the bottom going toward Torquay seems like a prime bacon point?

medicineman

1,817 posts

261 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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So as pdV6 says, does the same the as klm and walks with 3 points, a fine and no ban.

einion yrth

19,575 posts

268 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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aurea billings said:
"Nothing is worth the risk of killing somebody at great speed."

But killing them slowly would be alright?

gh0st-preop

4,693 posts

282 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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einion yrth said:

aurea billings said:
"Nothing is worth the risk of killing somebody at great speed."


But killing them slowly would be alright?


HOW DARE YOU CHALLENGE THE WORDS OF aurea billings....

whoever that is...


rustybin

1,769 posts

262 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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gh0st-preop said:

einion yrth said:


aurea billings said:
"Nothing is worth the risk of killing somebody at great speed."



But killing them slowly would be alright?



HOW DARE YOU CHALLENGE THE WORDS OF aurea billings....

whoever that is...



So presumably areola billings (how much does she charge for each?) never does anything that risks death on her or anybody elses part; walks, drives, cooks, plugs in an iron, mows the lawn, inhales near a french man.

Seems to me that there is too much space these days in the media and that the need for something to be said is heavily outweighed by the need to fill some column inches or web space (my humble rambling excepted obviously). If they have nothing more interesting or useful to say then bring on the skateboarding duck.

If they are only considering charging the accused with 'dangerous driving' then presumably driving at less than 145mph is not 'dangerous' so why is it an offence?

deltaf

6,806 posts

277 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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gh0st said:

article said:
Aurea Billings, from St Austell, Cornwall, knows personally the lethal effect of speeding.



And who the fk are you again? My auntie died of cancer. Does this make me an expert of cancer related deaths?!


Spot on! These people give me the shits!

Fat Audi 80

2,403 posts

275 months

Wednesday 10th November 2004
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Utter Utter tripe as usual