Thursday 13th March 2003

Dangermum

Steer clear of mothers - they're a nightmare on the road

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[swilly]

These are no doubt the same mothers who are in the vanguard of the "ThinkoftheChildren" movement and the "Speed Kills" lobby and "lets have speed bumps in the vilage" groups.

They will also be the ones on the Speed camera's 'helping' the police.

[jumjum]

Totally agree with you.

Really they should be campaining for higher speed limits as the majority of them seem to be in a hurry.

[Pierscoe1]

about time some of these stats were announced.

I have to drive past a school to work each day, and the 200yrds of road in front of the school boasts the worst display of driving (if you can call it that) I have ever seen.. and it's every day!!!

brings a new meaning to the "baby-on-board" sticker.. might as well read : "I'm not watching what I'm doing"

[corcoran]

those stats are all fine and well; but do they under-line or emphasise any of the real problems that school-run mum's cause?
these people are just plain crazy whether they're speeding, or driving around a roundabout, or pulling out of a side-road not to mention the fact that when it's school holidays - the roads are blissfully empty.
maybe it's a quantity issue, rather than a quality one *giggle*.
in faaaaccct.. maybe we should introduce national 'school run congestion' charging... ooooh the outcry..

[FourWheelDrift]

corcoran said: those stats are all fine and well; but do they under-line or emphasise any of the real problems that school-run mum's cause?
these people are just plain crazy whether they're speeding, or driving around a roundabout, or pulling out of a side-road not to mention the fact that when it's school holidays - the roads are blissfully empty.
maybe it's a quantity issue, rather than a quality one *giggle*.
in faaaaccct.. maybe we should introduce national 'school run congestion' charging... ooooh the outcry..

The recent half term holidays took approx 1/2 hour off a normal 1.5 hours journey to a client!!!!!!!

[plotloss]

You shouldnt be allowed to park within half a mile of a school full stop.

Would do some of these fliks good to walk a bit.

Matt.

[v8thunder]

To add to all that, you must remember that nowadays there is a paedophile round every corner, every red light will be jumped by a 'killer' in a 'sporty-Porsche-thing' and if the kid gets out of the car he will be beaten up by the 'horrible rough kids whose parents don't care enough to drive them to school'. I walked 3 miles to and from school on my own every day between the ages of 7 and 16 (1989-2000, 'Stranger danger'/traffic scares and all) and it never did me any harm. Get the kids out of the cars, on school buses if they must and stop fcuking worrying! The only reason kids get run over at these times is when the numpty brigade are out in force, taking their kids to school or rushing back to get to work on time.

[CDP]

Sounds like what they want isn't a four wheel drive but a car with a glass partition. This way the children can be seen but not heard...

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[d3ano]

What i find weird though is that insurance companies claim that women are safer driver. How can this be when stats (which were created by the insurance companies) show that women have more small knocks than men..
Men do have more major accients though...well if your going to do it, you might as well do it in style. ;-)

[mrsd]

It's called no-win no-fee aka "Everything, everywhere, at all times is some other B@stards fault" Women have small, cheap, readily repaired single vehicle accidents whereas men have plough into the poor sod coming in the opposite direction killing self, family, people in other car etc. accidents. Then their families recover from the grief and everyone sues everyone else.

>> Edited by mrsd on Friday 14th March 12:23

[v8thunder]

Statistics are overhyped to attract various groups to insurance companies, and will often be very tenuous. I find a great deal of drivers of both sexes hunched over the steering wheel with one eye on the speedometer and the other on the end of their bonnet, yet if an insurance company wants more people to use their services all it takes is Quentin Willson to say so on TV. My own mum* is a terrible driver - she learnt in a four-speed car with no wingmirrors, so she drives her Punto up motorways in 4th, yanks the handbrake to stop and doesn't adjust her side mirrors after I've driven it, yet she thinks my age makes me a worse driver, even when the rev counter has broken off the bump-stop and is going round again, and the cam covers are pummelling the underside of the bonnet, she claims she can't hear the engine even though it sounds like a tractor on a dragstrip most of the time. The fact is that she rarely has accidents and just potters about in her car. This is the attitude of most numpties with no mechanical sympathy, and this is what needs targeting, especially in the SUV/MPV drivership.
*she'll never read this as she has no idea how to use the internet.

[d3ano]

v8thunder said: Statistics are overhyped to attract various groups to insurance companies, and will often be very tenuous. I find a great deal of drivers of both sexes hunched over the steering wheel with one eye on the speedometer and the other on the end of their bonnet, yet if an insurance company wants more people to use their services all it takes is Quentin Willson to say so on TV. My own mum* is a terrible driver - she learnt in a four-speed car with no wingmirrors, so she drives her Punto up motorways in 4th, yanks the handbrake to stop and doesn't adjust her side mirrors after I've driven it, yet she thinks my age makes me a worse driver, even when the rev counter has broken off the bump-stop and is going round again, and the cam covers are pummelling the underside of the bonnet, she claims she can't hear the engine even though it sounds like a tractor on a dragstrip most of the time. The fact is that she rarely has accidents and just potters about in her car. This is the attitude of most numpties with no mechanical sympathy, and this is what needs targeting, especially in the SUV/MPV drivership.
*she'll never read this as she has no idea how to use the internet.

Have you got something against your mum and driving?

[JMGS4]

I think this article just underlines what I posted about women drivers in germany being the highest risk anywhere!!!!!!!
Mumpties on schoolruns should be gatsoed, policed, fined, pointed till they no longer exist!!!!!
But the school run has no gatsos thanks to greenslime socilaist whingers who are just jealous of other road users!

[swilly]

Mumpties

Another word for the pistonhead dictionary.

>> Edited by swilly on Wednesday 9th April 10:20