Two fatal Accidents In my area

chrisw

Stubod said:

x44 said:

If i'm doing a 200 mile journey at 40 mph average its going to take me 5 hours, at 50 mph average its going to be 4 hours - hardly a few minutes.

I do such journeys which I do regularly as a similarly retired person to you.

Its mostly single carriagways and if I get stuck behind someone doing 50's I'm not bothered. If it 40's mph I try and get past as if I don't, I know excatly what will happen next. We will get stuck behind a tractor and the car doing the 40's will not be bothered about doing 35 behind the tractor and wont get past but me certianly is bothered and now I have to get past them both.  So we end up with the situation where I will try and get past everyone doing 50 or less wheras I probably would not if I knew they WOULD overtake the wretched tractor when we meet it.

Conversly when I'm stuck behind a lorry and I know most commercial traffic turns left at the next roundabout and I want to turn right I'll just accept the 40mph travel for a few miles to the junction as its just too must hassle/risk etc to overtake - or as the case often is I know there are no suitable straight overtaking sections anyway in the distance left to the junction.

..yes, but you won't "average 50"....compared to 40.....that's the problem.

I remember when cars first had "computers" that could calculate your average speed. Everybody I knew that had them ended up "averaging" around 36 mph regardless of journey distance and type.

I used to weekly commute arounf 120 miles. As a "test" I drove some journeys like a "loon", and others where I just took it steady. Overall time variation between the 2 was just a few minutes.

Yes, you can see that these days with a satnav. I regularly travel a 120 mile journey and, barring obvious holdups,  no matter how I drive, I'm usually within 2 or 3 minutes of the original satnav estimate.

Mildly_Miffed

EnPointe said:

Okell said:

EnPointe said:

...  There are many  things that advanced drivers do  even if they are not  emergency services drivers with  warning devices and  exemptions that given the typical steering wheel operative connipations such as  using the full extent of the road when there is a closure ahead , positioning for vision   and positioning to control  the space  plus of course effective use of  all lanes  of  roundabouts to effect the  most timely  and 'making progress'  route through the hazard  

Eh?             

it's fine to admit you  are Steeering wheel operative, the question is are you willing to  develop into a driver , all of the above are things you  will be exposed to if you  undertake driver development activities  or even  just  watch content fro mthe likes of 'Bigjobber' or 'Reg Local' 

I think he was questioning the relationship between that post and comprehensible English.