O/T speeding ticket

We should send the pool squad out speeding, might be the only way we get enough points to stay up!! Hang on, our strikers will probably miss the speed cameras.
 
Camberwell1 said:
The word is ‘Opposire’ …….the promenade

Does anyone on here really have any sympathy

I almost killed a kid (7 years of age) once well under the speed limit - it haunts me to this day and it was all his fault ! Playing chicken the police said after the interrogation x’s of a lifetime ! Not one witness helped or supported the innocent driver !
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What are you talking about - Opposire the promenade ?

Not looking for sympathy , merely asking about the course -
 
Walthamstow_Seasider said:
Totally agree, speeding, driving excessively slowly in relation to the speed limit, lack of lane discipline on motorways and use of mobile devices, just highlight the number of bad drivers on our roads.
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Add to that the number who do not recognize zebra crossings. You literally take your life in your hands stepping out sometimes
 
tangysider said:
Add to that the number who do not recognize zebra crossings. You literally take your life in your hands stepping out sometimes
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Doesn’t help when the idiot clowncil put ‘fake’ crossings up, like the ones in Bispham. People think they can use them exactly like pedestrian crossings and will be safe, but in reality they are neither.

I’m convinced they’ve got a headed memo saying something like: “Do whatever you can to slow the traffic around Blackpool to crawl speed.”
Close off roads - ✅
Little pedestrian islands in the middle of roads - ✅
Chevrons to prevent overtaking down Prom, etc - ✅
Cycle lanes as wide as car lanes - ✅
Traffic lights on roundabouts - ✅
Reduce speed limits on roads / put up speed cameras - ✅
Traffic calming speed bumps - ✅
Narrowing of roads at random points - ✅
Twenty is plenty - ✅
The rolling inaccessible car park (otherwise known as the Golden Mile in season) - ✅


Heaven forbid they actually go back to teaching kids how to cross roads properly at Primary School, e.g. Green Cross Code, plus Road safety proficiency for cyclists. Now that would have a real impact on the total number of lives saved, but of course that might actually cost money rather than generate money via stealth fines.
 
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Stopping distances made simple | RAC Drive

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not looking to judge, but the difference in stopping distance at 30 or 36 mph is about 30 foot, so yes it could be the difference between killing a kid, and not hitting them at all.

yes, i have been known to go over the limit. yes i have done the course. enjoyable is probably not the right word, but it makes you think.

what slowed me down most over the years, is having a loose accelerator cable on an old mondeo, so couldn't get up to speed limit as quick as 'normal.' i still pulled up at the next lights or junction behind the same car 9 times out of 10.
 
jevans said:
www.rac.co.uk

Stopping distances made simple | RAC Drive

A car’s stopping distance is an important part of any learner driver’s theory test. Read here for the RAC's complete guide.
www.rac.co.uk www.rac.co.uk

not looking to judge, but the difference in stopping distance at 30 or 36 mph is about 30 foot, so yes it could be the difference between killing a kid, and not hitting them at all.

yes, i have been known to go over the limit. yes i have done the course. enjoyable is probably not the right word, but it makes you think.

what slowed me down most over the years, is having a loose accelerator cable on an old mondeo, so couldn't get up to speed limit as quick as 'normal.' i still pulled up at the next lights or junction behind the same car 9 times out of 10.
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Then you have the kids on these electric bikes ,no helmets , doing well over 40moh down the prom pulling wheelies 🤷🏻
 
It is 30 for a reason and I try to stick to it, they should abolish Motorway speed limits mind you. Crash at 70 or 90 won't make much difference.
 
Did one at the Holiday Inn Lancaster (caught at 35 on a sunny Sunday afternoon just entering Churchtown). As a petrolhead thought I'd be rolling my eyes but I actually learned some things that have stuck with me. In the end it felt like a 'refresher' from my driving test from 15 years previously and a few others remarked the same.

One or two were straight into ' it's a bloody shambles etc.' but then saw how chilled and non-preachy the guys running it were and also listened. One thing that did astound me was the amount of people who couldn't ID a true dual-carriageway.

Lytham_fy8 said:
It is 30 for a reason and I try to stick to it, they should abolish Motorway speed limits mind you. Crash at 70 or 90 won't make much difference.
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Edit: Funnily enough they said exactly the same for the Motorway limits and cited Germany's limitless Autobahns being as safe if not safer, but yep whether 70 or 90 little difference in outcome.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
It is 30 for a reason and I try to stick to it, they should abolish Motorway speed limits mind you. Crash at 70 or 90 won't make much difference.
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It's the disparity of speeds that's the main problem on motorways. If you drove from Blackpool to London, you'd have to change lanes about 50 to 100 times. If the traffic in each lane is all flowing within 5mph to 10mph of each other, then the time you need to indicate and judge when you pull out is easily predictable. If there was a higher or no speed limit, then that larger disparity would then end up causing more crashes as people cannot then judge the speed of others so easily.

Also, motorway bends, slip roads and exits etc. have all been designed and built with 70mph in mind. You'd have even more loonies missing junctions, swerving over chevrons and smashing into barriers simply because the roads aren't designed for such speeds and the cost or physical ability to change their designs will be too much to ever allow it.
 
BigHandsOliverKahn said:
It's the disparity of speeds that's the main problem on motorways. If you drove from Blackpool to London, you'd have to change lanes about 50 to 100 times. If the traffic in each lane is all flowing within 5mph to 10mph of each other, then the time you need to indicate and judge when you pull out is easily predictable. If there was a higher or no speed limit, then that larger disparity would then end up causing more crashes as people cannot then judge the speed of others so easily.

Also, motorway bends, slip roads and exits etc. have all been designed and built with 70mph in mind. You'd have even more loonies missing junctions, swerving over chevrons and smashing into barriers simply because the roads aren't designed for such speeds and the cost or physical ability to change their designs will be too much to ever allow it.
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The main problem on Motorways is that people can't drive these days.

My current pet hate is those people who go right up behind a lorry and overtake it at the last moment, indicating a nano second before they start to pull out.
 
Got caught on m62 in East Yorkshire doing 105 on way home from Pool v Liverpool in 2011. Managed to avoid a ban - just got the 6 points
Funnily enough that’s the same number of points we got from playing Liverpool that season!
 
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