Community speed watches

[Goaty]

Yeah that's fair enough and certainly not digging at you stevie. I've much respect for you and any pedestrians etc.

When they had to release the data on accidents under freedom of information, I looked it up in our area.

Every single accident with fatality in our rural area involved one or more of three things.

 

1. Sadly old people

2. Motorbikes

(some in this group take extreme risks. Should bikes have speed recording devices on them? Trucks and buses do. They rarely have accidents.)

3. Young kids ( stupidity more than lack of experience in the cases I knew of) this is weeded out better I think now due to the astronomical costs of young insurance and better management somehow.

 

So I can understand why when speeding in low speed areas is mentioned as a major issue but statistically probably a rare albeit very tragic cause of accidents. People do get peeved. It's better to report the offenders and their times of offending and catch them. But policing isn't what it was.

 

To mention another instance a real idiot with a brand new ford ranger parks it on the left side of a sharp right hand bend facing either way(one is illegal in the dark.) the bend is blind and is 30 limit so he's "entitled" to park there. They won't do anything about it even though you have to pass it into oncoming traffic. At that same corner the sneaky local busybodies have their whield the speed trap sessions. I know which is going to cause the next accident. Hopefully when it does it will be damaging to the idiots ranger not the oncoming traffic. Also I've seen this bloke taking a tiny toddler out the pickup on the traffic side in the middle of the road.

His other vehicle is a Harley Davidson if that means anything.

[TIMON]

Yeah that's fair enough and certainly not digging at you stevie. I've much respect for you and any pedestrians etc.

When they had to release the data on accidents under freedom of information, I looked it up in our area.

Every single accident with fatality in our rural area involved one or more of three things.

 

1. Sadly old people

2. Motorbikes

(some in this group take extreme risks. Should bikes have speed recording devices on them? Trucks and buses do. They rarely have accidents.)

3. Young kids ( stupidity more than lack of experience in the cases I knew of) this is weeded out better I think now due to the astronomical costs of young insurance and better management somehow.

 

So I can understand why when speeding in low speed areas is mentioned as a major issue but statistically probably a rare albeit very tragic cause of accidents. People do get peeved. It's better to report the offenders and their times of offending and catch them. But policing isn't what it was.

 

To mention another instance a real idiot with a brand new ford ranger parks it on the left side of a sharp right hand bend facing either way(one is illegal in the dark.) the bend is blind and is 30 limit so he's "entitled" to park there. They won't do anything about it even though you have to pass it into oncoming traffic. At that same corner the sneaky local busybodies have their whield the speed trap sessions. I know which is going to cause the next accident. Hopefully when it does it will be damaging to the idiots ranger not the oncoming traffic. Also I've seen this bloke taking a tiny toddler out the pickup on the traffic side in the middle of the road.

His other vehicle is a Harley Davidson if that means anything.

 

 

Is it Jomoco? Oh no, his is a Hilux...

[Steve Bullman]

So this morning when I dropped the kids at school there was a community speed watch set up on the main drag through the village....and about 30 meters away from some temporary traffic lights.  I say temporary but they have been there around 3 weeks at the entrance to a new development going up.  There was 5 of them sitting there, and im not quite sure they understood why I was laughing at them

[Darrin Turnbull]

Speed kills. I think some of them do it because they’ve lost someone to traffic accidents

[Steve Bullman]

54 minutes ago, Darrin Turnbull said:

Speed kills. I think some of them do it because they’ve lost someone to traffic accidents

That aside, you may have missed the point that they were setting a speed trap in an area where there was nothing but standing queues of traffic

[eggsarascal]

2 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

So this morning when I dropped the kids at school there was a community speed watch set up on the main drag through the village....and about 30 meters away from some temporary traffic lights.  I say temporary but they have been there around 3 weeks at the entrance to a new development going up.  There was 5 of them sitting there, and im not quite sure they understood why I was laughing at them

It might say Community speed watch on the front of their hi-viz jackets but I bet it says Communist State of Stow on the back?