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Old 30-12-2011, 10:35   #56
Tim Deegan
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Re: 80mph speed limit 'would increase deaths by 20%'

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
You make it seem that it is inevitable I will kill someone, which of course it isn't.
Maybe not inevitable, but by driving at high speeds the chaces of having a serious accident are increased massively

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Is your driving impeccable in all areas?
Not many people can say that theirs is. But from what you have yold us, yours is far from it

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I would wager it isn't, I would also argue that as I haven't killed anyone, and I presume you haven't, that the odds are fairly equal on us both potentially killing some one.
No, the odds are highly stacked towards you killing someone if you drive at excessive speeds.


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My assessment may be better than some other road users, also explain to me how driving to the conditions and adapting my driving to suit those conditions is not considerate to other road users.
And how do you know your assessment is any good at all? It's only your ego that tells you that you are a good driver. But the fact that you admit to driving at excessive speeds, and that you think it is safe to do so, tells us that your assessment is way off the mark.

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Although I drive at speed sometimes I am always considerate to other road users, if only other road users were considerate to motorcyclists - how safer the roads would be then
Driving at high speeds is not considerate to other road users.

How do you think a judge would react to someone saying "I am always considerate to other road users", when standing in the dock for killing a child??

I have to deal with the results of people with the same attitude as people like you on a regular basis.

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Originally Posted by craigj2k12 View Post
maybe a better resolution to the problem would be to have separate speed limits for each lane; 60, 70 and 80. Its a system used in the EU and it works from what i experienced when over there myself

at the moment, the "fast lane" is limited to 60, so to use it as the "fast lane" and overtake people, you would be replying on people in the middle and inside lanes to be doing slower than 60, so the lanes would have to be 40, 50, 60. and i mean 50 is slow enough on the motorway, never mind 40

All they need to do is legalise what currently happens on the road which is the 60, 70, 80 system i mentioned above
Was that a typo??
The national speed limit is 70mph
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