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Steve Bullman
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Don't speed , simple!

I live in a small village and people drive through it too fast all the time, fancy hitting a kid at 40mph first thing in the morning while you are running late and not concentrating!

I watch people text while speeding down past the school kids walking to school! Idiots!

Good on the community for getting together and helping out the over stretched police .

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Don't speed , simple!

I live in a small village and people drive through it too fast all the time, fancy hitting a kid at 40mph first thing in the morning while you are running late and not concentrating!

I watch people text while speeding down past the school kids walking to school! Idiots!

Good on the community for getting together and helping out the over stretched police .

 

And half of them texting are taking their own kids to school

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Don't speed , simple!

I live in a small village and people drive through it too fast all the time, fancy hitting a kid at 40mph first thing in the morning while you are running late and not concentrating!

I watch people text while speeding down past the school kids walking to school! Idiots!

Good on the community for getting together and helping out the over stretched police .

 

 

Well said .

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Don't speed , simple!

I live in a small village and people drive through it too fast all the time, fancy hitting a kid at 40mph first thing in the morning while you are running late and not concentrating!

I watch people text while speeding down past the school kids walking to school! Idiots!

Good on the community for getting together and helping out the over stretched police .

 

 

Agreed!

 

Rural roads + excessive / careless / inconsiderate driving is a recipe for disaster.

 

It may well be that the frustration directed at the people volunteering at these speed watch positions would be better directed at the people who are speeding.

 

It might seem pointless because there are no "powers to punish" associated with Community Speed Watch but the data collected facilitates targeted road traffic police attention to problem areas.

 

Really, which is worse - careless, inconsiderate, speeding, distracted drivers or a few old duffers having a day out in the fresh air?

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That's the truth of it - but we all do it!!

 

I don't. I'm retired and have nowhere to go in a hurry. I love to see the driver behind drumming their hands on the wheel in 30 limits :thumbup: Our street is actually a 20 limit and if they ever set a speed trap up it would rake in thousands and result in quite a few bans. I might stand outside with my hi-viz jacket and a black hairdryer one day just to see their faces :thumbup:

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Kids in our village walk to school and older ones get the bus to high school.

Maybe half a dozen get a lift in from farms.

The texting drivers are mainly young woman that I see.

 

In town it's a free for all; phones, smoking joints, overtaking stationary traffic at zebra crossings, overtaking while you're waiting to turn right, stopping st red lights appears optional, one way streets only apply to some.....

 

 

and that was only what I saw yesterday:thumbdown:

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