Minister for transport outlined new proposals today.
Main points being:
3 points considered very harsh for being slightly over the limit - proposed 2 points.
Seriously over the speed limit gets you 6 points, meaning 1 more serious speeding fine within 3 years and you are automatically banned.
Discuss...
whats 'Seriously over the speed limit' then? 30mph?
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
whats 'Seriously over the speed limit' then? 30mph?
driving is no fun anymore in this country, I'm still all for blowing up parliament think my next project might be a cruse missile
20 MPH according to the BBC
I guess there will be more people sharing the points if this is the case !
wait till someone privatises the speed camera's too... then there will be one every 50 yards on every road in the country
Which is stupid. 90mph on the motorway isn't nearly as bad as 50mph in a 30mph zone outside a school.
Should be a percentage.
20 mph over on the motorway (30% over the limit) has got to be 'less dangerous' than 20 mph over in a residential 20 mph zone (100% over) so who knows what they will do.
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I'm still all for blowing up parliament think my next project might be a cruse missile
Think we could do it for £250?
The problem is as with all recent changes in the enforment of speed restrictions it puts the emphasis on raw numbers not the driving situation and
conditions and thus passes the wrong message on to less experienced and new drivers. While high speed accidents are invariably high energry impacts
and therefore serious the relationship between speed and risk is not direct.
For example today I watched a woman in a Merc 4x4 cut through a busy and cramped supermarket petrol station forecourt to soley do a U turn she
incredibly she must have been doing about 35 to 40 mph. The fact is people don't adjust thier driving style to road and traffic onditions which
is why we alsways get a spike in accidents in bad weather.
What is really needed is driver education to break the video game driving style syndrome in some driver and to educate the anti-speeding lobby that
while speeding is often symptom of a drivers lack of judgment the primary problem is the unsafe mindset not the raw numbers.
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Originally posted by Benzine
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I'm still all for blowing up parliament think my next project might be a cruse missile
Cool can I help?
, honestly I won’t do
anything like write ‘Benzine woz ere!’ on the side of it 
I hate speed cameras. They are a classic case of trying to solve a problem by tackling an easy to target symptom, rather than a difficult to resolve
problem.
Crap drivers are a danger, speed in itsef is not the bad thing people make out.
We need more coppers on the road, with their old style commen sense approach rather than rewarming a bad system. 
i very rarely go over the speed limit, i just dont feel the need to most the time.
BUT, i know of too many people who have been done for 47 in a 40 when they were on holiday somewhere and genuinely thought the limit was 50. its all
to easy to do.
agree that more police presence on roads would be better, its obvious when someone is driving dangerously, whether that includes speeding or not.
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Originally posted by dinosaurjuiceagree that more police presence on roads would be better, its obvious when someone is driving dangerously, whether that includes speeding or not.
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Originally posted by dinosaurjuice
agree that more police presence on roads would be better, its obvious when someone is driving dangerously, whether that includes speeding or not.
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Originally posted by britishtrident
What is really needed is driver education to break the video game driving style syndrome in some driver and to educate the anti-speeding lobby that while speeding is often symptom of a drivers lack of judgment the primary problem is the unsafe mindset not the raw numbers.
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Originally posted by NS Dev
My thoughts exactly!
At the moment we are just an easy tax revenue when others are drying up.
I heard some nob on the radio who was keen to point out that speeding is a criminal offence you know!
More crims on the M25 today than in Wormwood Scrubs today then, cos not many people do 70 or less!
Stu
Most dangerous place to be is near a lorry (doing similar speed) or when overtaking another vehicle. Best to get passed quick and get out the way!
My boss sticks to 70 religiously (more like 67) and has been nearly hit a few times by lorries.
I'd say 75-80 is a nice safe speed, 85's a bit much and 65's just bloody dangerous due to everyone else overtaking.
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I'm still all for blowing up parliament think my next project might be a cruse missile
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