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(Message started by: leftofcentre on Jan 7^th, 2006, 8:47pm)

Title: Fatal
Post by leftofcentre on Jan 7^th, 2006, 8:47pm

Yet once again, due to driver irresponsibility, they paid with there lives today on the A9 at Kingussie between Perth + Inverness. I wonder if they had any idea this time last year that in 12months time they would be dead?

Most likely overtaking in excess of 60mph speed limit at junction on the single carriageway, other car joins A9 from junction. Head on. *goodnight Irene*

See it every day.

Folk cant cope with being behind a vehicle doing 50mph, so they decide to put themselves, wife/hubby, kids and other car occupants at risk of death for the sake of extra 10mph.

An extra 10miles distance covered per hours driving. Is it worth dieing for?

Answers below please ???

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by howiedintheplace on Jan 7^th, 2006, 11:37pm

Hmm yeah it amazes me sometimes when I am waiting for a sensible part to overtake in a 350 bhp 4wd car & they come past me in a Ford KA playing with their lives :o , 10 - 20 secs later they are a spec in my rear view mirror anyway ??? but that's not the point. Mad :-X

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by stafford on Jan 8^th, 2006, 1:04am

i know what you mean ..it absolutely beggars belief..if you do a time and motion study on them you ll inevitably find it rarely gets them any where quicker, puts everyone else at danger and increases their risk of CHD by a big%. 25 million cars on one small island most of them in the south is insanity. Ive been crashed into 4 times by other ppls incompetence and it really pisses me of. Mind you I would like to personally thank the last women who went into the back of my 24v rover sterling. She was putting make up on while driving at 35mph!!!! shes just got me £8000 and Im off to canada. so emma L***** thanks very much and goodbye to your NCB [] []

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by wayne on Jan 8^th, 2006, 1:09pm

The cruel irony is that the car that pulls out so indignantly to pass you because you've already got 6 penalty points from letting the car drive you and not vica verca and you can't afford extra insurance cost,, is always forced to stop for a junction, lights etc,. As you glide to a halt behind it, all that risk and leeriness has effectively gained 16ft. Hardly worth the risk....

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by stafford on Jan 8^th, 2006, 1:15pm

correct wayne some boffins from newcastle university done quite a big study into this and basically confirmed what you ve already written. sadly its usually those *MW owners that seem to think that along with the key v5 and warranty , they get their own highway code to compliment their Bavarian metalwork!!! :'( :'(

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by Octavian_P on Jan 8^th, 2006, 6:01pm

on 01/08/06 at 13:15:57, stafford wrote:

You could say that again !!!!!

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by mr._floppy on Jan 9^th, 2006, 5:42pm

The A9 has the ( unfair ) reputation of a "Killer Road" , truth is, it's no more dangerous than any other road, it's of modern and well aligned construction, with many miles of straight road , long dual carraigeway sections and the many junctions are well lit and signposted with excellent sighting distance, with ample sliproads for exit and entrance.

Excess speed, impatience, and above all, sheer incompetence can account for most of the death and injury.

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by Highlander on Jan 9^th, 2006, 6:07pm

The car leaving the junction is at fault for not checking both ways, admittedly overtaking at a junction isnt the safest manouvere but not illegal

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by leftofcentre on Jan 9^th, 2006, 6:20pm

it is when there are solid white lines as there are at the "said" junction

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by Highlander on Jan 10^th, 2006, 1:12pm

Yep, both at fault then, doesnt help them now though i suppose :-/

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Feb 18^th, 2006, 1:47pm

YOU ONLY NEED TO GET UP 5 MINUTES EARLIER AND YOU CAN GO 10 MPH SLOWER
ON MOST JOURNEYS

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by mr._floppy on Feb 18^th, 2006, 7:25pm

A guy doing about 65 mph ( on a single carriageway, breaking the law already ! ) overtook me to-day 50 yds from a 30mph zone, he had to brake from 65mph to 30mph in about 10 yds.

I'll be d**ned if let scumbags like him think that my modest ( and fue l efficient ) speed is in any way " holding him back ".

I don't give a toss.

Title: Re: Fatal
Post by Octavian_P on Feb 18^th, 2006, 11:27pm

Imagine that most roads here have a limit of 55 mph. And there is the famous DN1 wich has 33 video cameras and the limit was 30 mph !!!!!!!!!!!. Now they have increased it to 43 mph. >:( >:( >:(