Council lanuches near miss website
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Mentioned this on SP&L but it was buried on an old thread, so maybe not picked up on, search reveals nothing. Thats my defence for the sad (and getting sadder) repost police.
N Lincs council set up a near miss website.
www.northlincs.gov.uk/NorthLincs/Transportandstreets/roads/roadsafety/NearMisses.htm
Text is
Near miss reporting form
Please use this form to report incidents you have seen where a collision nearly takes place.
For example, where a car pulls out of a junction and vehicles have to brake sharply but no, or a very minor collision takes place.
This information can help us build up a picture of what is happening on North Lincolnshire's roads. It will add to the information we already get from the police when there are crashes on the road that result in casualties.
Those sites where a number of different incidents are reported are investigated to find out if anything can be done to help prevent a crash happening in the future.
Please note: The form is not for reporting highways faults, nor is it to report vehicles speeding along a road, other traffic offences taking place or incidents of aggressive driving/road rage.
Near miss incident reporting form.
Please make sure you fill in both pages of the incident form.
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with this information.
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Not sure what to make of it tbh, maybe an excuse to find more scamp sites?
Me paranoid! Nah, just that when I looked 'paranoid' up in the dictionary it said "and why do YOU want to know.
N Lincs council set up a near miss website.
www.northlincs.gov.uk/NorthLincs/Transportandstreets/roads/roadsafety/NearMisses.htm
Text is
Near miss reporting form
Please use this form to report incidents you have seen where a collision nearly takes place.
For example, where a car pulls out of a junction and vehicles have to brake sharply but no, or a very minor collision takes place.
This information can help us build up a picture of what is happening on North Lincolnshire's roads. It will add to the information we already get from the police when there are crashes on the road that result in casualties.
Those sites where a number of different incidents are reported are investigated to find out if anything can be done to help prevent a crash happening in the future.
Please note: The form is not for reporting highways faults, nor is it to report vehicles speeding along a road, other traffic offences taking place or incidents of aggressive driving/road rage.
Near miss incident reporting form.
Please make sure you fill in both pages of the incident form.
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with this information.
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Not sure what to make of it tbh, maybe an excuse to find more scamp sites?
Me paranoid! Nah, just that when I looked 'paranoid' up in the dictionary it said "and why do YOU want to know.
OH:What astonsihes me is that all councils offer a pretty poor service because they are run on a shoe-string with few resources yet they have time to pay someone to trawl through the rubbbish that this will generate. It's beyond belief - GO OUT AND DO STUFF, NOT FIND WAYS TO CHASE MOTORISTS!
What exactly is the point of this?
I could see merit if it was used to identify danger spots and remedial action (which sometimes might be a speed restriction, but might also involve changes to layout). Indeed, my local council accept suggestions for changes to roads and parking (and even took up my idea).
However. I took a look at the form, and there's no place to suggest what went wrong or what improvements could be made (e.g. "A Give Way sign would warn drivers that the straight road ahead is actually another road coming in, and they do not have priority"
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So I'm left with the deep suspiscion that this will be used as a tool to apply new (and potentially inappropriate) speed limits. To compound this, am I really going to use this system if I suspect they will use it to lower the limit when the real solution is a Give Way sign? Not really.
I could see merit if it was used to identify danger spots and remedial action (which sometimes might be a speed restriction, but might also involve changes to layout). Indeed, my local council accept suggestions for changes to roads and parking (and even took up my idea).
However. I took a look at the form, and there's no place to suggest what went wrong or what improvements could be made (e.g. "A Give Way sign would warn drivers that the straight road ahead is actually another road coming in, and they do not have priority"
. So I'm left with the deep suspiscion that this will be used as a tool to apply new (and potentially inappropriate) speed limits. To compound this, am I really going to use this system if I suspect they will use it to lower the limit when the real solution is a Give Way sign? Not really.
HiRich said:
What exactly is the point of this?
Well, they want your money.
They want your freedom.
So they find ways of taking your driving licence.
This is a premeditated stategy to foil you storming the council chambers with all the remaining ranks of the emasculated.
Soon, they will ask you to adopt a more feminine name by deed proxy.
By mid November, they will have you employed in the fashion of the Ugandan water carrier, specially painted, earthen vaseware atop your head, as you dispense unsanitised brown grit to the local Lithuanian community centre.
They want your testicles.
Still, you never know: they may perish by asteroid.
huckster6 said:
An excellent idea, provided information is actually monitored and acted upon.
Wish we had similar scheme in south London. I see quite a lot of problems when out and about, which I sometimes think result from design features which need modifying.
Wish we had similar scheme in south London. I see quite a lot of problems when out and about, which I sometimes think result from design features which need modifying.
1) "acted upon" : No. But maybe 10 years after the fact, some one will have a quick look.
2) "design features which need modifying" : Any modifications will be to the opposite effect that "us-lot" wanted / would want.
Narvanath said:
2) "design features which need modifying" : Any modifications will be to the opposite effect that "us-lot" wanted / would want.
Credit where it's due, my local council has made some good modifications that have improved both safety and traffic flow (on urban roads, where a bit of hooning would be very silly anyway). Hence why I wanted to see some potential benefit, even if the reality doesn't appear to stack up.
However, I do recognise that my council may be very rare, perhaps even unique.
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