Another 145mph
Discussion
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3999805.stm
This has to be one of the worst bits of reporting I've seen from the BBC, throwing in totaly unrelated crap such as:
"Aurea Billings, from St Austell, Cornwall, knows personally the lethal effect of speeding.
Her son, Sam, was killed by a driver doing 60mph in a 30mph limit. "
And their point would be what? The driver caught was on a dual carriageway, not an urban 30mph area. Obviously written by a lentelist reporter who felt that stopping to emotional bollocks was the only way to get his point accross.
This has to be one of the worst bits of reporting I've seen from the BBC, throwing in totaly unrelated crap such as:
"Aurea Billings, from St Austell, Cornwall, knows personally the lethal effect of speeding.
Her son, Sam, was killed by a driver doing 60mph in a 30mph limit. "
And their point would be what? The driver caught was on a dual carriageway, not an urban 30mph area. Obviously written by a lentelist reporter who felt that stopping to emotional bollocks was the only way to get his point accross.
GregE240 said:
Nothing is worth the risk of killing somebody at great speed
Thats as opposed to killing somebody at medium speed, or low speed, or even no speed at all.
I despair.
What about rushing a dying child to hospital ?
Personally, I think that's worth the risk.
All I can say for people who get run over is that the road is a dangerous place.
I by no means condone driving without due care, or not paying attention to the circumstances, but what was a child doing on a dual carriageway in the first place?
There are always adequate pedestrian bridges over dual carriageways!
Surely we need to put emphasis on the daft parent who let their child grow up thinking cars were made of marshmallow, and that dual carriageways were safe places to be and acceptable to be!
Uh, whatever next...
Dave
I by no means condone driving without due care, or not paying attention to the circumstances, but what was a child doing on a dual carriageway in the first place?
There are always adequate pedestrian bridges over dual carriageways!
Surely we need to put emphasis on the daft parent who let their child grow up thinking cars were made of marshmallow, and that dual carriageways were safe places to be and acceptable to be!
Uh, whatever next...
Dave
PetrolTed said:
Speeds are coming down according to the report.
They omit to mention whether, deaths coming down too. How odd.
The report is at odds with the DfT TrafficSpeed survey which shows there is no real change in peoples speeds over the last year or so. Here is a quote:
DfT Survey said:
Here is a straight quotation from the survey. Draw your own conclusions.
Non-built up roads - 2003 estimates (based on a survey population of around 677 million)
Average recorded vehicle speeds hardly changed from previous years. Average car speed on motorways 71 mph, static since 1998. Proportion of cars exceeding the limit ROSE to 57% from 54% in 2002 and 2001.
20% of cars on motorways were exceeding 80 mph, and also 28% of motorcycles (up from 27% in 2002).
On DCs more than 50% of all cars exceeded the speed limit, 15% were travelling faster than 80 mph. 23% of motorcycles exceeded 80 mph.
On single carriageway roads 9% of cars exceeded the 60 mph limit, 2% over 70 mph.
HGVs - 87% of HGVs exceeded the 50 mph limit for DC roads, no significant change. On SC roads 74% exceeded the 40 mph limit, up from 68% in 2002. 23% were exceeding 50 mph, up from 15% in 2002.
On built up roads with 30 and 40 mph limits there do not appear to be any significant changes in the percentages exceeding the limit.
IMHO this leads me to conclude that the speed limit on SC roads is about right, the speed limit on DC and Mways should be increased to 80 mph (85th %'ile, also in line with Europe standards). Also it seems rather obvious that 'safety cameras' are having absolutely no effect on driver behaviour.
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