Country Road 999: Tonight

[Agrilla]

More dreadful Daily Mail type viewing. Ugh.

"Morland Sanders follows the emergency services in Cumbria as he investigates whether government proposals to lower the speed limits on rural roads will save lives"

I'll bet anyone a quid that I already know what the result of these 'investigations' will be........

[robinhood21]

Am watching 5th Gear so was going to record this but, thought it would do no good for my blood-pressure so no recording.

[Agrilla]

I didn't catch the estimated speed of the first accident that they covered, but I'm sure that they said that the young motorcyclist who died when they interviewed his mother was 34mph, and the third motorcyclist clipped the kerb at 40mph.

Injured 80 year old woman - was she driving at in excess of 50/60mph? No evidence was shown that this was the case, or that speed had a part to play in her accident.

Good to see that the IAM have made a clear statement that they do not feel that reducing the national speed limit to 50mph will not have any significant affect.

[Rach*]

It stood out to me that they were targetting bikers, yeah they had some other incidents but the bikers were being put on spinal boards/buried.

Fook knows what the old biddy was doing to roll it there!

Sensationalist TV IMO, scare the road plodders, especially now the bike season has started.



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[Six Fiend]

I'd like to take some Brake people for a spin in my car and prove to them the benefit of extra training and common sense when applied to existing speed limits. But they'd just day "if you go more slowly you won't crash at all".

Program seemed to offer no proof of speeds in excess of 50mph to me...

[funkyrobot]

Six Fiend said:

I'd like to take some Brake people for a spin in my car and prove to them the benefit of extra training and common sense when applied to existing speed limits. But they'd just day "if you go more slowly you won't crash at all".

Program seemed to offer no proof of speeds in excess of 50mph to me...

I was thinking this. The irony of this program was that the only person not involved in an accident was the lad speeding in his Fiesta. Work that one out!

I was watching this with my fiancee, she wondered why i get so worked up when BRAKE plonkers appear on the screen!

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

I shouldn't be surprised, but what a load of ste. How much of that programme actually had anything to do with reducing the NSL to 50? Was it:

- The 18 year old biker - on the wrong side of the road at 34mph?
- The guy doing 112 on a dual carriageway?
- The stolen car being pursued?
- The biker who appeared to have been on the wrong side of the road when they hit the Merecedes?
- The guy who did a safe overtake, but ran over one car length of double whites?
- The old woman that hit a stone wall and rolled?
- The biker that bumped a kerb at 40?

None of that has any relevance at all to the NSL debate. The few things that did were buried amongst that lot, and not followed up or explained. Grrrrr!

[blank]

Agree with the stories being pretty irrelevant (there didn't seem to be anything that happened because someone was going between 50 and 60mph), but I liked the calls for better education.

I'm familiar with some of the roads they were looking at, and lots of similar ones in the area. I can't see reducing the 60 limit to 50 will make a difference. The truth is, there are plenty of places on "rural" roads where 60+ is perfectly safe, but also loads where 50 is far too fast. The only way to solve it IMO is to properly teach people about the dangers of driving too fast, and to chose an appropriate speed, not just drive at the speed limit.

I've been driving on some very tight NSL roads today and sooo many people coming the other way drive far too fast and panic when they see a van coming the other way, yet they're still well within the current 60 limit, or any future 50 limit. Just because they're below the speed limit, it doesn't mean they're not driving too fast.