Cutting down accidents, your manifesto ?

[J4CKO]

Not talking specifically about fatalities or injuries, more about the number of bumps you see every day, you know when you see two or three cars with people stood round up to their ankles in bits of trim, glass and whatever.

It must cost the country a fortune, does it matter or doe it keep the wheels of industry turning ?

[Captain Muppet]

Step 1: anyone who hits a stationary object gets shot in the face.

Step 2: anyone who isn't looking through the windscreen, at the mirrors or checking over their shoulder for more than a second gets shot in the face.

Step 3: illegalise car insurance.

ETA Step 4: remove all airbags leaving only the shattered remains of the plastic casings with lovely sharp edges.

Edited by Captain Muppet on Wednesday 27th March 13:24

[Monkeylegend]

I would pass a law prohibiting anyone in a car from hitting anything, that should sort it.

[Gorvid]

I would re-brand accidents as unintentional physical errors.

[Rawwr]

Make it compulsory to have a man in the car when a woman is parking.

[Captain Muppet]

Rawwr said:

Make it compulsory to have a man in the car when a woman is parking.

That would make her crash his fault.

[Monkeylegend]

Rawwr said:

Make it compulsory to have a man in the car when a woman is parking.

No you have that all wrong. if there is a man in the car he should do all the parking.

[8potdave]

Training training and more training. Our roads are awash with people of different ability, so therefore accidents occur. We need to set higher standards for everyone. Everyone should have conpulsary training every 10 years with an observation at the end. Not neccesarily a pass or fail scenario but if someone is bad they have more training.

[Monkeylegend]

8potdave said:

Training training and more training. Our roads are awash with people of different ability, so therefore accidents occur. We need to set higher standards for everyone. Everyone should have conpulsary training every 10 years with an observation at the end. Not neccesarily a pass or fail scenario but if someone is bad they have more training.

Whoa, way to sensible and not in keeping with other suggestions so far.

[Vanya]

Captain Muppet said:

Step 1: anyone who hits a stationary object gets shot in the face.

Step 2: anyone who isn't looking through the windscreen, at the mirrors or checking over their shoulder for more than a second gets shot in the face.

Step 3: illegalise car insurance.

ETA Step 4: remove all airbags leaving only the shattered remains of the plastic casings with lovely sharp edges.

Edited by Captain Muppet on Wednesday 27th March 13:24

Anyone who causes an accident during commuting times, especially on motorways (M4) or A roads (A4 and A30) from Heathrow to Hammersmith, gets shot in the face, twice, slowly.

[J4CKO]

Rawwr said:

Make it compulsory to have a man in the car when a woman is parking.

My missus parks better than I do, I dont think it is gener specifc in terms of ability it is just a lot of ladies are less fussy about alloy wheel and bodywork condition.

[Willy Nilly]

You would need to have people take more pride in their driving, however it is always some body elses fault. The trouble is that people won't take responsibility of themselves even when it comes to health, providing for themselves in their old age and cleaning up after their dog, so getting people to do any more than that absolutely have to on the road is going to be a tall order.

We have more must be pretty much at the point of diminishing returns with reducing casualties. When you look at the number of people hurt on roads in context it is not that many and it might be that all the time saved stopping little bumps might be taken up training people better.

There are however some utter tools on the roads.

[Captain Muppet]

Vanya said:

Captain Muppet said:

Step 1: anyone who hits a stationary object gets shot in the face.

Step 2: anyone who isn't looking through the windscreen, at the mirrors or checking over their shoulder for more than a second gets shot in the face.

Step 3: illegalise car insurance.

ETA Step 4: remove all airbags leaving only the shattered remains of the plastic casings with lovely sharp edges.

Edited by Captain Muppet on Wednesday 27th March 13:24

Anyone who causes an accident during commuting times, especially on motorways (M4) or A roads (A4 and A30) from Heathrow to Hammersmith, gets shot in the face, twice, slowly.

The whole accident investigation process needs streamlining. Instead of closing the road and calculating what happened, the police should turn up with guns and shoot anyone who can't prove it wasn't their fault. It'll be cheaper too.

Fear of arbitarily harsh police treatment has made me drive much more carefully in countries with a record of poor human rights.

They should also shoot anyone who slows down to have a look, just because those people give me the creeps.

[Willy Nilly]

Captain Muppet said:

Vanya said:

Captain Muppet said:

Step 1: anyone who hits a stationary object gets shot in the face.

Step 2: anyone who isn't looking through the windscreen, at the mirrors or checking over their shoulder for more than a second gets shot in the face.

Step 3: illegalise car insurance.

ETA Step 4: remove all airbags leaving only the shattered remains of the plastic casings with lovely sharp edges.

Edited by Captain Muppet on Wednesday 27th March 13:24

Anyone who causes an accident during commuting times, especially on motorways (M4) or A roads (A4 and A30) from Heathrow to Hammersmith, gets shot in the face, twice, slowly.

The whole accident investigation process needs streamlining. Instead of closing the road and calculating what happened, the police should turn up with guns and shoot anyone who can't prove it wasn't their fault. It'll be cheaper too.

Fear of arbitarily harsh police treatment has made me drive much more carefully in countries with a record of poor human rights.

They should also shoot anyone who slows down to have a look, just because those people give me the creeps.

Sensible rules for happier Britain.

[Krikkit]

Increase the number of unmarked traffic police 5 fold and get them cracking down not on speeders who are +5mph on the limit etc, but people who are blatantly not paying attention, using their phone or driving with obscured windows in winter.

[itz_baseline]

A massive spike on the centre of the steering wheel meaning instant death on even a small bump Might help concentrate the mind a little more and get people off their mobiles\driving whilst tired\drunk\doing make-up\having a cup of tea etc

[SturdyHSV]

Shoot anyone that 'performance' modifies a 3 or 4 cylinder hatchback.
Shoot anyone that buys budget tyres.

[SuperchargedVR6]

The people who stop at busy junctions or roundabouts to exchange details following a minor shunt, should be run over, shot, fed into a meat grinder and then killed to death, twice.

[lestershaw]

apparently 30% of all accidents are caused by drunk drivers, so that means sober drivers are causing the other 70%, so lets all have a drink before we go out driving :-)

just for the record this is meant as a joke, i dont drink or drive ever

[SturdyHSV]

lestershaw said:

i dont drink or drive ever

Sounds like you're on the wrong site