campaigner for speed limit
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I'm just afraid if I don't try and do something...somebody will die
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45605528
Trouble is someone might die whether or not she does something
A speed limit doesnt prevent people dying - you only have to look at crash map
The road's speed limit is set at 40mph (64kph), but then turns to 60mph (96kph) before reducing to 30mph (48kph)
Either someones testing their calculator or Is Wales about to change its speed limits to metric?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45605528
Trouble is someone might die whether or not she does something
A speed limit doesnt prevent people dying - you only have to look at crash map
The road's speed limit is set at 40mph (64kph), but then turns to 60mph (96kph) before reducing to 30mph (48kph)
Either someones testing their calculator or Is Wales about to change its speed limits to metric?
- I'm not sure, this road has a corner 
k that happened is beyond me ,On watching the video tape, there is a hell of a bump on the road on a slight right hand bend which could destabilize a car/bike at speed. when the tape was made the weather was poor with reduced grip....which would add to the risk
I can't blame her for wanting "something" to be done, and £5000 is peanuts when you take into account what a crash would cost the authorities/local business/etc if there was a fatal crash
She did accept that lowering the limit would not stop people speeding if they wished to do so
good luck to her campaign
Or she could move to an inner city close where the road would be safer....rural roads are the most dangerous......if driven by idiots.....we had a fatal crash on our road a few years ago, where the female driver lost control of her car, on a 40 mph section.....road dead straight, and managed to hit an Oak at the side, two feet either side and she would not have killed her best friend ( rumour control claims she "swerved to avoid a rabbit"..... ihave lived on the road for some 14 years.....never seen a rabbit on it.....maybe the alcohol she drank earlier in the evening didn't help
The road is now a 30 mph....and a young tosser managed to crash into my hedge, luckily for him the hedge was very thick and absorbed a lot of energy, still his mate who was not wearing his seat belt in the back was thrown out of the car. If he had lost control and hit the telegraph pole about a foot sooner (before hitting my hedge) they might all have been killed, he was on his phone texting doing about 60 mph before he lost control. speed limits help only if obeyed, and then if driving according to the conditions etc...
I can't blame her for wanting "something" to be done, and £5000 is peanuts when you take into account what a crash would cost the authorities/local business/etc if there was a fatal crash
She did accept that lowering the limit would not stop people speeding if they wished to do so
good luck to her campaign
Or she could move to an inner city close where the road would be safer....rural roads are the most dangerous......if driven by idiots.....we had a fatal crash on our road a few years ago, where the female driver lost control of her car, on a 40 mph section.....road dead straight, and managed to hit an Oak at the side, two feet either side and she would not have killed her best friend ( rumour control claims she "swerved to avoid a rabbit"..... ihave lived on the road for some 14 years.....never seen a rabbit on it.....maybe the alcohol she drank earlier in the evening didn't help
The road is now a 30 mph....and a young tosser managed to crash into my hedge, luckily for him the hedge was very thick and absorbed a lot of energy, still his mate who was not wearing his seat belt in the back was thrown out of the car. If he had lost control and hit the telegraph pole about a foot sooner (before hitting my hedge) they might all have been killed, he was on his phone texting doing about 60 mph before he lost control. speed limits help only if obeyed, and then if driving according to the conditions etc...
saaby93 said:
The road's speed limit is set at 40mph (64kph), but then turns to 60mph (96kph) before reducing to 30mph (48kph)
Part of the problem IMHO - Multiple speed limits that appear to be randomly displayed - added to the lack of driver attention we commonly see, a lot of drivers have no idea of what the speed limit is for the stretch of the road they are on.South Wales seems to have mastered the art of random speed limits that seem to have no bearing to the roads they apply to...
You have to wonder if the councils have just shaken a dice to choose a speed limit..
If there wasn't the current obsession with limits & enforcement, people might be more likely to chose to drive at an appropriate speed for the conditions.
Just because a road has a 60 limit doesn't mean you have to do 60 all the way down it, or is driving so dumbed down that we need a separate limit for each corner?
Lowering the limit won't stop people exceeding it, just as lowering the drink-drive limit doesn't stop people driving drunk. It just means we have more criminals.
Just because a road has a 60 limit doesn't mean you have to do 60 all the way down it, or is driving so dumbed down that we need a separate limit for each corner?
Lowering the limit won't stop people exceeding it, just as lowering the drink-drive limit doesn't stop people driving drunk. It just means we have more criminals.
Our council...Carmarthenshire, would probably put in speed bumps. They seem obsessed with them. Many are in sensible locations but I cannot see why many are in place. I now think about my routes when in the low clearance car as it means too much stop-start style driving. One has even been place within the lined area for a speed camera! I bet that camera now has zero speeding catches! I hope they don’t move it somewhere else instead.
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