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@MP1953 13625 wrote:
You wouldn’t need crash barriers if you drove steady ;) roads are not grand prix circuits :)
Interesting that you quote roads as Grand Prix circuits, when was the last death on a GP circuit due to speed? Everyone cites ‘speed’ as the ultimate cause of all crashes so must be banned, absolute rubbish. Maybe if we started with driver training and basic competence to drive a vehicle things might improve. How many cant even park a car at 1mph without hitting something? yet we see that as humorous, so what then says they are capable of controlling the same vehicle at 30+mph?, how many ‘drivers’ are scared of using motorways? They are therefore not competent to use any road.
We should not be using ‘slow and steady’ as not an alternative to driver skill, training and ability in all conditions and all circumstances of driving. Not up to standard, get them off the roads until they are, and stop lowering the standards to suit the lowest common denominator.The 50 limit on the Pontblyddn dual carriageway has created a far more deadly problem, vehicles now stuck in a line at 50mph on average 15 FEET apart, bored and frustrated, and given that includes 38 ton trucks which can easily manage 50mph, the next incident could be a multi-vehicle pile-up.
At this location, only one incident has involved excessive speed and that by a young, totally inexperienced driver, the other was a drunk-driver and both were AFTER the dual carriageway had ended.
No speed limit will stop the basic problem of drivers crossing the double whites lines on every bend on the stretch of road after the DC and it is THAT is what is causing the collisions there. Weeks after the new lower limit has been set there has been yet another serious RTC after the DC, same place as the previous ones. So that worked didn’t it??
Instead of ‘brainless, speed did it, so make it slower !’ solutions they need an intelligent look at road engineering here to sort this out properly and ease the issue of traffic merging on a blind bend.
As for Go-Safe that doesn’t explain the issues at the time of the offence, as a proper Traffic Officer would do, it just sends a bill later, no education involved just money – useless, and proven that the LED signs have more success than a pillock hiding in a van at reducing speed.
