I'll lose my job" says Ambulance man. 614
Eeyore That's it Graham. What matey boy in his Ambulance car, or chummy in his Speed Camera Van...
I'll lose my job" says Ambulance man. 615
Ian Dalziel The point you raise is at the heart of the cash for speed story. As you have demonstrated, the...
I'll lose my job" says Ambulance man. 616
There are several exceptions in TSRGR 2002 worded similarly to: 3.15 (5) Nothing in paragraph (2)(a...
Traffic Light Cameras and Turning Right
The offence is to cross the stop line when the red light is showing. Normally there are loops about 6" before and after the stop line. It...
Brits are SAFER drivers ... too busy crossdressing uU|G*dfHK8Zr48
Experts with newscaster on CNN 24th March. 3 yank experts including a former 2-star general...
Speeders are SAFER drivers 619
and Airbags, safety cages, crumple zones, seat belt pre-tensioners, Compulsory Basic Training, collapsible steering columns, ShellGrip, door reinforcing struts, deforming bumpers, ABS, hazard perception tests, ventilated brake discs, Armco...
Speeders are SAFER drivers 620
Harry the Horse No, no, no. Lets have a level playing field. Person goes into shop and picks up a shirt. Walks towards the...
Speeders are SAFER drivers 621
MrBitsy The offence of theft occurs at the point at which the thief decides to...
Speeders are SAFER drivers 622
Dan White Bad form to alter quoted posts in that way to make a point, especially when you are wrong and...
Speeders are SAFER drivers 623
Wow, that's the best you can manage after two days thinking about it? You really are... adequate, aren't you? Explain to me then, a mere...
Speeders are SAFER drivers 624
Plenty? I can think of one of two. I would say that that means that the limit in question...
Bloody joke. 625
Problem is, law is generally good. There is one notable exception, which is the law about the maximum speed on SOME road sections, which if broken, has absolutely no victims...
Bloody joke. 626
That road used to be 40 mph from a several hundred metres back into Snorbens. The police used to stand on the uphill side from the M10 bridge, just...
Bloody joke. 627
Brimstone Well, the RoSPA, IAM and driving instructer side of me wants to agree, yet an understanding of...
Bloody joke. uU|G*dfHK8Zr48
I merely call a space a spade. What is said was unambiguous. No, it's a standard game on u.r.d. It doesn't...
There but for the grace of select favourite deity go I
Lack of intent. Unless criminal negligence can be proven, ie drink, drugs, mbuttively excessive speed, etc - in which case Causing...
Variable speed limits don't cut congestion
scott" wrote in message You are making the mistake of buttuming that the cars have no length. Cars of no length, 2...
Test for motorway driving
You'll get a load of bolshie negative ninnies who will disagree on principle with youswear at you I would say its a good idea however my concern would be that as its...
Wheeee
Well, I had my track day at Palmer Sport yesterday... Thanks to all those who gave me advice in advance. Had an absolutely fantastic day's driving - the instructor bods there really are the very best...
does a car need to be insured in this curcumstance 633
Eeyore Brimstone Eeyore Adrian happily, sounding much like they were saying : Use is defined as more than driving the vehicle. See...
does a car need to be insured in this curcumstance 634
It isn't. It is one of the clearest laws there is. Road Traffic Act 1988 Section 143. 143...
Police bad example
I have been an Driving Instructor for two weeks. In that time I have built...
Police bad example
says... Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. This is Billy McKloski from Palm Springs reporting for NBC Sports Of Hertfordshire. Twenty seconds to the start of the thirty-first Champion Stakes...
Insuring 17 year old driver
You might be surprised. there are a growing number of kids who hate new cars, don't like the new jelly all the same shape...
Euro NCAP strongly recommends Stability Control
I'm quite surprised to see an independent testing organisation banging the drum about this. Not knowing any better I...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 640
JNugent Actually , yes. I genuinely believe that the LibDems were heading in the right direction a year or so back and would vote for them. There is now a pretty widespread acceptance...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 641
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:08:59 +0100, Steve Firth was popularly supposed to have said: Some of the slightly...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 642
Let me tell you something you pompous stuck up tosspot. Myself and my partner were both working full time...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 643
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:56:16 +0100, Elder Let me tell you something your half-witted prig: Well we have two kids, other than that I'm in the same...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 644
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:24:16 +0100, SteveH What complete bollocks. Every "average" family I know of peees their money away on expensive holidays, overblown weddings...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 645
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:26:40 +0100, SteveH was popularly supposed to have said: You still don't get it, do you? Trying to tax rich people is a hiding to nothing; they always manage...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 646
The trouble with looking at it in such a simplistic way is that some poor sod trying to raise a family on an average...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 647
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:51:59 +0100, SteveH was popularly supposed to have said: What a lovely theory...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 648
Exactly - if everyone in Kent gave up their cars and commuted into the City via train it wouldn't last a day before...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 649
Brimstone If you are disabled and you live in a penthouse in Knightsbridge, Park Lane or Regent Street, are you allowed to park...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 650
Try "majority of the working population who don't work in a major city & live close to a railway...
Lib Dem's plans to tax motorists 651
Brimstone ... Except that it won't. How has the existing heavy taxation on vehicle-use made "people avoid spending money on" it? The answer...
Fantastic observations
Coming north on the A19 into Sunderland north yesterday, noticed that the left lane was busier than normal for the time...
Fantastic observations
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Nel I think if it's done intentionally it's a form of greed and indicative of the personality driving the vehicle...
whats the fine if any
Adrian much like they were saying : I was about 100 metres beyond traffic lights, which I'd gone straight across about half way through the amber phase He said "you went through those lights...
using car horn in retaliation 655
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:51:00 +0100, Chris Lawrence You appear to be taking a one sided view of...
using car horn in retaliation 656
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:01:01 +0000 (UTC), David Taylor I'm amazed that you need to ask that...
using car horn in retaliation 657
At one end there is the totally impatient arrogant driver who will not give an inch, and at the other end there is someone holding up traffic through ignorance...
Petrol pump usage
Yes, most people I know, like us only use their cars because they have to. I commute...
Top Gears Richard Hammond critical after crash
No Norman it isn't. In a situation where Richard Hammond may, or may not be, paralysed from the neck down for...
Mother's heartfelt tribute sparks safedriving campaign 660
bucket Quoting the mother of the doctor end by one of your fellow-drivers, old chum. "Amazing insight". You flatter yourself. Pompous butt. "Wayward pedestrians" are supposed to be grateful that you invade their...
Mother's heartfelt tribute sparks safedriving campaign 661
Adrian Your co-religionist, Hyacinth, helps exemplify it:- "What total rubbish. Many things *can* be dangerous if abused (ladders, cooking the chips etc). Most of...
Kent Camera Partnership silencing of broadcaster Update
Kent Police have written and apologised to Broadcaster Adrian John who was visited at his home by two police officers and cautioned for 'harbuttment' after he had caught the Chairman...
Richard Hammond Update 663
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:10:26 +0100, Norman Wells What do you expect from a "breaking news" type...
Richard Hammond Update 664
We *all* have access to test tracks. If you don't want to spent £80 or so on a track day then...
Is the age of a tyre *in itself* a safety issue 665
Furthermore, from Michelin: Why put new or less worn tyres at the rear ? Whether you have front or...
Is the age of a tyre *in itself* a safety issue 666
It doesn't apply to them simply because it is impossible to achieve. I managed to lose...
Richard Hammond
On 24 Sep 2006 21:31:41 GMT, Huge Inertia. I was recording another program at the time (I can't recall which one, because I've obviously...
Using my mobile in a filling station. 668
Not much on Google (in English) at any rate. From memory: The tanker had been overfilled at the depot and then spent the day in the Spanish sun. It might have been delivering LPG...
Using my mobile in a filling station. 669
Alasdair" wrote in message Here is the advice from the HSE on the use of mobile...
Using my mobile in a filling station. 670
And that CB could well have had a 150 (?) watt linear added to it and then it might well scramble the pumps memory and at 27 MHz induce...
Using my mobile in a filling station. 671
Alasdair It's not law AFAIK, and it's also immensely unlikely to cause an explosion. Think about it: you have cars with many electrical contacts and a HT system *specifically* designed to create sparks...
Using my mobile in a filling station. 672
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, JPG That's not correct. While it is on standby and not moving very far, a mobile transmits every few tens of minutes to update the network as to its...
Beware Churchill Insurance
Last month, I renewed my car insurance with Churchill over the phone. I paid the annual premium by credit card and thought no more about it and when the documentation arrived, I filed it...
People who drive slow
I regularly get flashed on the motorway for doing 60; tough cheese ladies, I'm not wasting my cash going faster when I'm...
Cannock Chase speed limits follow up 675
I went to see for myself. There are some of the advisory repeater signs which have been altered by someone painting a red circle around the white disc. Not every...
Cannock Chase speed limits follow up 676
Where are you travelling to & from? That route is one of the least pleasant on the Chase. The cross roads at Penkridge Bank is not the place for the nervous driver...
Endorsements and Driving Work
Hey all I brought up a discussion a few months ago regarding a Dr10 on my license and getting a driving job. Thanks for everyone who gave me the excellent advice-links before...
Endorsements and Driving Work 678
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:18:50 GMT, "Shamen" Ha! You'll be lucky. Unless you have skills which are in demand and of short supply, I think you'd be better off waiting until you're...
Endorsements and Driving Work 679
I was caught the morning after, which is different, I never ever in my life took my car to the pub and then drove. The annoying thing is I know of people...
pulling out on a dual carriageway 680
It was a continuous stream of cars and while on slip road they were going much slower than me so no chance of merging unless I hit...
pulling out on a dual carriageway 681
already What would you say with a constant flow of cars on the slip road? Of course I don't always move...
pulling out on a dual carriageway 682
Certainly was not my comment. I would only slow gently on a motorway unless something unforeseen is happening ahead, but...
pulling out on a dual carriageway 683
bucket Quite often in the truck, on the limiter, in lane 1, traffic merges from the left and I...
MA53 ENF Road Rage Ford Tosser
Had this idiot in a silver Ford, MA53 ENF, tailgating me for 5 miles today and doing V-signs and...
MA53 ENF Road Rage Ford Tosser
They're available from DriveCam. Here's a previous post - For years now I've been wondering why in car...
Multiplexing was Does Handling Matter
Basically, it means sending more than one signal down one circuit. The most common and simple example you'll find is an...
Does Handling Matter
Adrian OK Adrian, if it's any help ours is a 406 Rapier HDi, a June 2000 model...
Road casualtiy figures falling 688
See below.. The BBC item is taken from today's DfT report "Contributory factors to road accidents" (I'll...
Road casualtiy figures falling 689
You could add to it the fact (mentioned on page 3 of the report) that "For each of the contributory factors given in an...
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