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| Thread ID: 122571 | 2011-12-30 22:10:00 | Holiday Road Toll | legod (4626) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1251438 | 2012-01-04 08:19:00 | Glad to see everyone is blaming the drivers and not blaming the roads like the moron talking on Prime news tonight who wants to spend a billion dollars on erecting road barriers. :groan: The drivers are the only ones to blame |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1251439 | 2012-01-04 09:38:00 | You will have a very hard job convincing me otherwise. After rail cars stopped going through Woodville they were always sitting with a speed camera on the bypass stretch past the old railway station. I could understand it before but after there has been very little traffic and virtually no pedestrians. It could easily be a 70km stretch instead of 50km. The northern end of Woodville is 70km and there is far more action there. Yeah got caught doing 62 in Woodville the other day - was following a sheep truck and trailer unit and made the mistake of thinking I was going about 50 - $80 lesson for me in that. | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1251440 | 2012-01-04 09:43:00 | I was reading Jareemon's account of what happened on Xmas day. I do not mind too much if people pull out in front of me as long as they get out of my way. This idiot obviously had no intention of getting out of Jareemon's way and was the cause of the accident. Sorry I should've been more specific, there was plenty of distance in front of us for him to go, like I said we were 200m away when he pulled out, and 100m away when he crashed @ 80km/h, so if he hadn't crashed, we wouldnt've come within 100m of his car anyway. But yes, it was like time slowed down but just at that millisecond after the impact, with all the glass and aluminium flying everywhere, it was like a still image burned into my memory |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1251441 | 2012-01-04 09:45:00 | Yeah got caught doing 62 in Woodville the other day - was following a sheep truck and trailer unit and made the mistake of thinking I was going about 50 - $80 lesson for me in that. I find, as a very careful and sensible driver, that it can be quite dangerous to keep an eye on the speedometer - more dangerous than going 10 or 15km/h over the limit. I long for the day when the car's speed will be projected onto the windshield. *sigh* |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1251442 | 2012-01-04 10:36:00 | Ok if he was 200 metres away when he pulled out in front of you then you were merely an observer of the idiots antics. You were safe. Poetic justice that he crashed though. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1251443 | 2012-01-04 18:16:00 | The weather has more impact on the road toll than anything else . Crap weather = deaths . Fine weather = fewer deaths . Speed limit @ 120km/h = deaths Speed limit @ 100km/h = deaths Speed limit @ 80km/h = deaths (IIRC, the open road speed limit was 50mph (80km/h) in the '70's and there were not significantly fewer road deaths than there are now) Either way people are going to die on the road, usually because their driving skills are lacking or the driving skills of some other idiot are lacking . Trying to get a low road toll over holiday (or any) period is like trying to prevent the tide from coming in with a fishing net . And it doesn't help the situation when the Police (for whom I have the utmost respect otherwise) target speeding as the sole/major cause of 'accidents' . Speeding is an easy target . Lack of driving skill and stupidity are very hard to police . . . Well said . But our poor (narrow and winding roads) don't help either . All the police can do is try to keep the road toll down . There will always be crashes . I am concerned about the real speedsters, and those that drive after drinking or drugs . |
Digby (677) | ||
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