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Posted by 'JohnClucas' on 16 Apr 2009 @ 14:54


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JohnClucas
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Are you seriously suggesting that 66% speed at speed camera locations?!!! Now that would be silly.

Those figures are clearly from relatively covert traffic surveys of one kind or another - and certainly wouldn't be so high if the measuring device was visible, now would they? And they will be across a wide range of roads (they do it in villages near us and trunk routes regularly)

Now I will accept that you probably wouldn't put a pair of wires (one of the normal methods of measuring speed) down on a roundabout, but you have to accept, given that 66% or 50% is vastly greater than 13% of fatal accidents (or the 5% figure for speeding related accidents as a whole) that either

a) The vast majority of accidents occur at locations where speed limits are irrelevant
OR
b) Speeders are safer as a group than non-speeders.

Which do you prefer?

In either case the speeder-centric approach to road safety is useless - as indeed it has proved to be over the last 15 years.

Message Thread:

Speed limits  by 'MarkW'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 3:19)
Re: Speed limits  by 'Latestarter'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 6:53)
Re: Speed limits  by 'DanTheK1RaceGearMan'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 9:18)
Re: Speed limits  by 'mobilechicane'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 10:33)
Re: Speed limits  by 'Tmoon'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 11:44)
Re: Speed limits  by 'DBaldwin'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 12:16)
Re: Speed limits  by 'michaelg36'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 12:36)
Re: Speed limits  by 'harvinsurrey'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 17:00)
Re: Speed limits  by 'harvinsurrey'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 17:02)
Re: Speed limits  by 'DanTheK1RaceGearMan'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 20:41)
Re: Speed limits  by 'kudos'   (12 Apr 2009 @ 22:19)
Re: Speed limits  by 'HC64'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 0:17)
Re: Speed limits  by 'ChrisAdams'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 2:00)
Re: Speed limits  by 'DanTheK1RaceGearMan'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 8:07)
Re: Speed limits  by 'JohnClucas'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 9:18)
Re: Speed limits  by 'davidmc'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 11:37)
Re: I don't want to re-run the argument again  by 'JohnClucas'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 12:46)
Re: Speed limits  by 'harvinsurrey'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 9:26)
Re: Speed limits  by 'HC64'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 9:42)
Re: Speed limits  by 'DBaldwin'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 10:07)
Re: Speed limits  by 'HC64'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 11:03)
Re: Speed limits  by 'davidmc'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 11:49)
Re: Speed limits  by 'ChrisAdams'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 13:32)
Re: Speed limits  by 'JohnClucas'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 10:55)
Re: Speed limits  by 'davidmc'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 11:33)
Re: Sorry david but it certainly does  by 'JohnClucas'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 16:25)
Re: Speed limits and cameras  by 'JohnClucas'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 16:42)
Re: Speed limits and cameras  by 'TanglerTKM'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 17:29)
Re: No Tangler  by 'JohnClucas'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 17:34)
can you post the link?  by 'TanglerTKM'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 17:38)
Re: Give me strength  by 'JohnClucas'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 19:31)
You don't have the figures do you John...  by 'TanglerTKM'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 23:58)
Re: Eyesight problem, brain fade or just idle?  by 'JohnClucas'   (15 Apr 2009 @ 20:54)
Re: Eyesight problem, brain fade or just idle?  by 'Avago'   (15 Apr 2009 @ 22:36)
Re: Eyesight problem, brain fade or just idle?  by 'TanglerTKM'   (16 Apr 2009 @ 1:45)
Re: Avago Tangler  by 'JohnClucas'   (16 Apr 2009 @ 8:04)
Re: John  by 'davidmc'   (16 Apr 2009 @ 9:41)
..trying to make it simple.  by 'TanglerTKM'   (16 Apr 2009 @ 11:37)
Re: David  by 'JohnClucas'   (16 Apr 2009 @ 14:43)
Re: Tangler  by 'JohnClucas'  << You are here!
Re: John  by 'davidmc'   (16 Apr 2009 @ 20:43)
Re: sorry David  by 'JohnClucas'   (16 Apr 2009 @ 22:02)
John, stop making conclusions you can't make  by 'TanglerTKM'   (16 Apr 2009 @ 22:44)
Re: Eyesight problem, brain fade or just idle?  by 'davidmc'   (17 Apr 2009 @ 0:27)
Re:straws get thinner by the moment  by 'JohnClucas'   (17 Apr 2009 @ 19:22)
Re: Eyesight problem, brain fade or just idle?  by 'DanTheK1RaceGearMan'   (17 Apr 2009 @ 23:38)
Dan & John  by 'TanglerTKM'   (18 Apr 2009 @ 10:06)
Re: convenient misinterpretation of the figures  by 'JohnClucas'   (18 Apr 2009 @ 20:44)
Re: Speed limits  by 'DanTheK1RaceGearMan'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 22:14)
Re: Speed limits  by 'DanTheK1RaceGearMan'   (13 Apr 2009 @ 22:20)
Re: Speed limits  by 'davidmc'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 8:32)
Re: Speed limits  by 'DanTheK1RaceGearMan'   (14 Apr 2009 @ 9:00)

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