Attention NI motorists

Frenchtoast_2

Easymoney wrote: »

Thanks for your comment Girlzmum, but this is the whole problem with NI roads. Not enough traffic cops to deal with people like this.

Instead they are chasing the upright citizen who does 37mph in a 30 zone.
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Upright citizen or not 37 mph is potentially more dangerous in a 30 mph limit than doing 80 mph on the motorway.
30mph areas are generally built up areas around schools, houses etc where there my be children playing etc. Traffic cops often concentrate in these areas due to the high accident figures in these areas. There is a school of thought that believe that speed should be reduced to 20 mph in many built up areas. If it reduced the deaths and injury i would have to agree.

talksalot81

Frenchtoast wrote: »

Upright citizen or not 37 mph is potentially more dangerous in a 30 mph limit than doing 80 mph on the motorway.
30mph areas are generally built up areas around schools, houses etc where there my be children playing etc. Traffic cops often concentrate in these areas due to the high accident figures in these areas. There is a school of thought that believe that speed should be reduced to 20 mph in many built up areas. If it reduced the deaths and injury i would have to agree.

I can tell you for fact that those who like to do 37 in a 30 get very irrate when forced to go at 30! I am an annoying !!!!!! and stick at 30 almost on the button.... you might be surprised at how many times people will pull out and overtake, never considering that there could be kids about.

ballyblack

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and stick at 30 almost on the button....

Bear in mind speed odometers over read your speed at least 10% and are calibrated this way by the manufacturer for legal reasons

dmxdave

Easymoney wrote: »

Thanks for your comment Girlzmum, but this is the whole problem with NI roads. Not enough traffic cops to deal with people like this.

Instead they are chasing the upright citizen who does 37mph in a 30 zone.

As already pointed out 37 in a 30 deserves a ticket.

IMO A lot of fatal accidents involve young people and happen in the early hours, mostly in rural areas where the national speed limit applies. This is where the cops need to concentrate, spending thousands on TV ads will not make a button of difference

Frenchtoast_2

dmxdave wrote: »

IMO A lot of fatal accidents involve young people and happen in the early hours, mostly in rural areas where the national speed limit applies. This is where the cops need to concentrate, spending thousands on TV ads will not make a button of difference

Have to agree.

And the majority are young males.

Is it peer pressure, bravado, inexperience or too much testosterone.

dmxdave

Frenchtoast wrote: »

Is it peer pressure, bravado, inexperience or too much testosterone.

All of the above plus alcohol and or drugs

talksalot81

ballyblack wrote: »

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Bear in mind speed odometers over read your speed at least 10% and are calibrated this way by the manufacturer for legal reasons

Whilst I know you are correct to an extent, it would be bad form to assume ones speedometer was wrong and 'guess' how far out it was. In the absence of a sat nav to tell me accurately, I will stick to my speedometer. At least then no one can catch me out because i guessed the 'miscalibration' of my speedometer incorrectly!

talksalot81

dmxdave wrote: »

IMO A lot of fatal accidents involve young people and happen in the early hours, mostly in rural areas where the national speed limit applies. This is where the cops need to concentrate, spending thousands on TV ads will not make a button of difference

I am a total pessimist as far as humanity goes.... if you manage to stop accidents then these idiots just never learn their lesson and turn into the older idiots who drive in the more powerful roads and dont limit their bad behaviour until the middle of the night! I think that if ever 17 year old were to have a link to a friend who had been killed or maimed by dangerous driving, the frequency of future accidents would be cut dramatically. Kids dont learn the easy way.

dmxdave

talksalot81 wrote: »

I am a total pessimist as far as humanity goes.... if you manage to stop accidents then these idiots just never learn their lesson and turn into the older idiots who drive in the more powerful roads and dont limit their bad behaviour until the middle of the night! I think that if ever 17 year old were to have a link to a friend who had been killed or maimed by dangerous driving, the frequency of future accidents would be cut dramatically. Kids dont learn the easy way.

From BBC NI recently

A Fermanagh driver who admitted killing four people by dangerous driving was caught speeding on the same stretch of road just months after the fatal crash. *********, was also over the drink-drive limit when his car went out of control and hit a tree. ******** ******* ******* ******* died in the crash in July 2006.

The BBC has learned that in October 2006, and on the same stretch of the ******* ******* was stopped by police for speeding.
He was doing more than 65mph, when he was a restricted driver and should not have been doing more than 45mph.


He told police: "I was in a hurry. I'm late for work". It was his second conviction for speeding.

motorguy

Easymoney wrote: »

He was fuming, at a last ditch attempt he tried to score a point against me, hand and wrist jesture????? how original :rolleyes:

Or maybe he thought you behaved like a w anker?

Easymoney wrote: »

Like I said he didnt seem to be in a hurry when I was going up the slipway. Thinking to himself, maybe I havent got such a fast sales rep estate car afterall.
I was toying with him! he fell for it hook, line and sinker

Regarding male ego, I get the chavs and boy racers sitting up my pipe all the time, all they see is a sports car and fancy their chances.........please dont annoy me is my usual response.
That particular journey I had put the foot down, I was at a constant speed 71mph :rolleyes: to make time, I was running late.

Come on, every itteration of your story moves away from your original 'i was already speeding, he put his full beam on, i blinded him back with my fog light, then i sped off in my sports car', to now your a peoples hero helping bad drivers to see the wrong in their ways in their rep mobiles, that plainly arent as fast as your car. :rolleyes:

Easymoney wrote: »

So you are saying I should have weaved into the lane where the slower movin traffic was?, to let someone past, only to pull out again........ pointless and dangerous manouvre!

Maybe if you werent speeding in the first place, it would have been safe to do so? :eek:

Seriously mate, by your own admission you were speeding already, some bloke came up behind you and you sped off, so much so that it took him ages to catch up.

Hardly responsible behaviour.