speeding cars kill.

[Caaatt]

Originally Posted by Bethy

we apparently have community support officers that come round a few times a week, but not in the evenings when these things happen!

we have the same thing where I live, its a shame actually, 'cos sometimes, we have police with speeding cameras further up the road, but where my cat got hit, drivers put on a spurge of last minute speed before they get caught :\

[RAINBOWRUSSELL]

Originally Posted by nightshade

Time for some Department of Transport Information Films I think

Oh do I agree!!!!the times I've said 'They would never pass a test now' & that idiot was in the wrong lane' at a roundabout!!!!

[Paul mabbott]

Not sure what you mean but are you saying that you've never been signalling to go into the lefthand lane and had someone travelling at 90mph coming up on the inside? You're very lucky ......

Yes, of course you drive in the leftmost lane - if you can get into it and if you don't get idiots zig-zagging over every lane.

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

Are you suggesting that there is a continuous stream of 'undertakers', such that you can't get into inside lane with getting 'smacked'? I've been driving on motorways since the M1 was first opened, and never seen that!

You drive in the leftmost empty lane - whatever speed you're doing!

Jim

[moondaisy]

I was very moved to find that there are people that care about animal deaths on the roads. It is such a huge problem we need people to get together to make a difference to lobby the powers that be. I live in the New Forest where there has been an awful problem with pony donkey & cattle deaths for many years. There are so many callous & stupid drivers who dont stop. This week a pony was hit & left to die,the accident unreported, eventually it had to be shot & its companion lay down by its side & would not move,the next day wandering round calling for her friend! My own pony got out of her field & was hit & killed many years ago. I think Pauls suggestion to make speed limits of 20 mph in vulnerable areas is a good one. I drive well under the speed limit on country roads & estates,also try to look out for any injured animals or birds. Lets pressure these councils & MPs to get something done! WE are paying for them to do something useful .
Marion.

[adamh]

As an introduced solution on a housing estate i think there was nothing wrong with speed humps/sleeping policeman as a good primary attempt to a problem.

Perhaps an improvement was mentioned to reduce the limits in vulnerable areas like these, there is no nationalised reduced limit on housing areas just off main roads?. But our children and pets frequent these areas, and us , if you hit a child at 30mph with a truck, that truck is moving at 44 feet 'per second', that is a long way in a short time, not to mention moving under such a vehicle after an impact.

44 feet per second equates to 3 average vehicle lengths! so if a small child walked out behind parked cars / 3 cars infront, the driver of the vehicle has 1 second to realise, react, and put the foot on the brake pedal and stop the vehicle, what chance does the small child have? . 30?.

Dare I increase my speed past the national built up area limit even?.

Do people actually realise what chance they have of stopping, seriously?,

"Your not one of those that slows all the other drivers down?

i'm lost for words there!.




If I had it my way, I would limit by radio control all vehicles in urban areas, except emergency services, to make sure, limits were adhered to and not surpassed on main roads.
I would also reduce and control speed in housed off main road areas to maybe 15mph. for the sake of someones life a few seconds more on your journey to get to the end of the short road you are travelling is surely not too much to pay, not to mention an animal.

[Jim Ford]

Originally Posted by adamh

As an introduced solution on a housing estate i think there was nothing wrong with speed humps/sleeping policeman as a good primary attempt to a problem.

As I've mentioned before, ambulance drivers apparently hate them. Next time you go over speed humps, imagine you're in the back of an ambulance, having suffered severe injuries, particularly spinal. The last thing you'd want is to be bounced arround by speed humps!

Jim

[Meta menardi]

We have bumps on the designated HGV route through town, which I suppose can be coped with, but one, and only one, is like the Eiger. It keeps disintegrating, the bang as the unknowing hit it at 20 is amazing.

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

As I've mentioned before, ambulance drivers apparently hate them. Next time you go over speed humps, imagine you're in the back of an ambulance, having suffered severe injuries, particularly spinal. The last thing you'd want is to be bounced arround by speed humps!

Jim

I think it may depend on the type of speed hump. I wouldn't know for sure but maybe those half-size ones are better for ambulances, etc. as maybe the wider gaps would go either side like buses I dunno, just a thought and I guess it depends on the style of ambulance.
Or maybe even better those islands which block one lane where one direction has right of way?
Whatever the solution it's just a crying shame that this discussion has to take place at all

[Jez]

Originally Posted by adamh

i hope this is the right forum for help:
I want to know how i can make a difference to a problem of cars speeding, i know its apparent everywhere in the u.k. to be specific i live in herstmonceux, a village in east sussex. I've not always been in the country, i was brought up in a north london suburb, village life is a little more better than living in the city, less noise, less anger, less people keeping you up until 6am!. i guess we all get older and less tolerable, lucky for some to get old?.

The small estate we now live on, in the tiniest of 2 bedroom flats , is probably about a quarter mile square, its an average type housing estate with a main road running right through it. The A271.

The reason for me writing today....

http://www.cpresussex.org.uk/Resourc...uiet-lanes.pdf

Don't know if this of any help to you Adam?

Best of luck!