Ridiculous AA Speed Awareness Course

[tommer9]

Ade- that is one of your best posts mate......berating someone for being 36 in a 30 zone, then showing beautiful double standards regarding motorway speeds!!

There are plenty of areas where a 30 zone is totally inappropriate (such as past the showground on the a39 at wadebridge, where no children live, and almost nobody walks. A 40 would have done. You have to draw the line somewhere, and it has been drawn at 70 on motorways, and IMO it ought to be less. I see these morons in super powerful penis extensions driving along with the attitude displayed by a caller to radio 4 shortly after the mobile phone ban was introduced: 'I have a big safe car, with ABS blah blah blah...therefore i should be allowed to sit in the fast lane at 100mph on my phone'!!!! He was a 58 year old guy. That is why motorway speeds are just as important as 30 zones, and when it goes wrong at those speed, with the tiny distances alot of these motorway types drive, tailgating and flashing headlights to get people to move over, it goes wrong spectacularly.

[ad15]

yeh but the motorway speed limit was set before disc brakes existed, stopping distances were 3 times what they are now,,,

[janey]

I can't be the only one thinking that if you get done for speeding in a 30 then your observational skills NEED to be improved??? Unless it was an unmarked police car that stopped you, it goes to show that you were not paying enough attention to the road ahead.

[ad15]

unmarked police cars are perfectly easy to spot,, i agree with you janey 100%

[Matthew Arnold]

Becuase my dad has been a paramedic for 30 + years he has been to spectacular crashes o nthe main roads and even the little country lanes. The usual story is "I was only doing 60". My dad normally says "yeh and the rest". He knows the local roads very well and knows that most of the corners if you know what you are doing you can go round them at 60 no problems. We just had another fatality on Dorsets road on a minor coast road at Langton Herring. Ive been on that section of road and although there are some nasty bends the place where the 17 year old girl was killed is nothing more that a kink and it was resurfaced 5 years ago so the surface has de-oiled.

[tommer9]

yeh but the motorway speed limit was set before disc brakes existed, stopping distances were 3 times what they are now,,,

 

You sound a bit like the guy on radio 4 mate. that is a pi ss poor excuse to drive like a tw at. There is no excuse for speeding, and if you get caught or, heaven forbid injure or kill anyone, you deserve EVERYTHING that gets thrown at you.

[skyhuck]

98 on the Mway is fine, I just wish all the muppets doing 70 would get out of my way!!!

[ad15]

you're just jealous cos you drive a defender and it's categorically impossible to break the speed limit

 

and i was meaning the 10% implied at the start,

 

my personal opinion is we should adopt the continental style of motorway speed limits where it's 80mph where the road is straight, but down to 70 or 60 at junctions,, works well there,,

[skyhuck]

Its strange how some see overloading (up to 8 tonnes for a landy and trailer) as acceptable, but speeding not???

[lendahand]

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you sir.... are a muppet,,, not least for putting that in writing...

 

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Try leaving the name calling in the playground sonny.