Police getting tougher on speed tolerance

[Akzle]

Pop Quiz for the pro speeders....

YOU are pulling out of a junction or perhaps just changing lanes and misjudge the speed of an approaching vehicle that is exceeding the speed limit... a collisions results....
Now whose fault is it???

yours. you misjudged.
is that not fucking obvious?

[Scuba_Steve]

Pop Quiz for the pro speeders....

YOU are pulling out of a junction or perhaps just changing lanes and misjudge the speed of an approaching vehicle that is exceeding the speed limit... a collisions results....
Now whose fault is it???

What Akzle said
But fun fact: Slow people cause more problems at intersections due to being slow enough that people have time to 2nd guess & when people 2nd guess...

[Akzle]

i was so glad today to hear police pull over a rental car doing 50 in a 100km.

Then mortally disappointed that no fuken fringe issued.

Then that 4 cop cars spent a half hour (and counting) getting some bitches fucking iphone back.

Safer communities together!

[98tls]

Not so tough today the boys n blue,2 hours 20 up to Christchurch then 2.35 back home and not one seen,was the normal amount of fucked 4wds about to but came across em at the right times.Coppers must have been busy dealing with shitheads beating up the mrs n kids.

[TheDemonLord]

and then you have to realise that everything that was done in germany between 1933 - 1945 was legal and you might want to think about this comment again.

a lawmaker makes laws, but we as people might want to think about a. is it moral and ethical (and yeah moral and ethical is something that might want to be discussed further) and b. enforceable - do we need to employ a few more hundred donuts eaters that are essentially civilian losers to write tickets? , c. to the betterment of the community (is it good to throw someone in prison for years on end for a bag of weed...cost of upkeep just to prevent someone from getting stoned?), d. does it criminalise us? i.e. drive 1.5 km over a hundred while going down on a hill and you are a criminal if caught, you are also a criminal if a copper stops you on a motorway going fifty and you become a danger to society for slow driving.

Just use yer brains instead of just spouting feel good nonsense of how one is such a pillar of the community and the other is such a dreg.

GODWIN!

/thread over

[scumdog]

yours. you misjudged.
is that not fucking obvious?

Never.

Not in KB world.

[scumdog]

This thread title should be changed to:

"The whiney, whingy snot-nose cry-babies" thread.

[Akzle]

This thread title should be changed to:

"The whiney, whingy snot-nose cry-babies" thread.

well, now that youre here...

[rastuscat]

A case law from way back decided that people are entitled to expect other people to be driving at or about the speed limit. This is when they are making a judgement as to when it's safe to pull out.

It's difficult (human error) to judge the speed of an oncoming motorcycle, due to the small frontal appearance, and the looming effect.

It's human weaknesses that cause some crashes. We can't change that. Even Azkle and Skoober have such psychological weaknesses, given the assumption that they are human. It's called being human.

Assuming that they are, of course.

[Akzle]

A case law from way back decided that people are entitled to expect other people to be driving at or about the speed limit. This is when they are making a judgement as to when it's safe to pull out.

It's difficult (human error) to judge the speed of an oncoming motorcycle, due to the small frontal appearance, and the looming effect.

It's human weaknesses that cause some crashes. We can't change that. Even Azkle and Skoober have such psychological weaknesses, given the assumption that they are human. It's called being human.

Assuming that they are, of course.

but some how we are not 'entitled to expect' that someone else wont drive into us, speed aside?

[husaberg]

but some how we are not 'entitled to expect' that someone else wont drive into us, speed aside?

I certainly wouldn't expect that someone wouldn't drive into you, neither should you.
I say this without regard to your propensity to deliver sermons on all manner of things, things to which you, have neither the insight, understanding or ability to offer anything impartial or indeed useful.

[pritch]

I don't know if it's an international thing,

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Well seriously, that's a worry, as a "professional" in the field you should know. It's covered on the British Motorcycle Police handbook, you should get a copy and read it.

People who have had any particular type of accident are statistically more likely to have a similar accident because they are all good drivers and seeing no need to improve they carry on, same ol' same ol'.

Same as here.

[rastuscat]

[QUOTE]It's covered on the British Motorcycle Police handbook, you should get a copy and read it.[QUOTE]

Already read it. I don't claim to be an expert just from reading a book. I'm sure not an expert on international psychology.

I agree entirely with your point though. The it won't happen to me so why should I change crew are a goodly part of our problem.

[Edbear]

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Well seriously, that's a worry, as a "professional" in the field you should know. It's covered on the British Motorcycle Police handbook, you should get a copy and read it.

People who have had any particular type of accident are statistically more
likely to have a similar accident because they are all good drivers and seeing no need to improve they carry on, same ol' same ol'.

Same as here.

[QUOTE=rastuscat;1130809268][QUOTE]It's covered on the British Motorcycle Police handbook, you should get a copy and read it.

Already read it. I don't claim to be an expert just from reading a book. I'm sure not an expert on international psychology.

I agree entirely with your point though. The it won't happen to me so why should I change crew are a goodly part of our problem.

After my accident, I would hope to defy those statistics.

[swbarnett]

On that basis, we should also stop chasing murderers, as they only cause 40 to 60 victims per year.

Surely you can't be that dumb?

Let me spell out something that should be your bread and butter (although you may be ignorant of this given your post above). A murderer has already committed a fatal act against another person. The average motorist hasn't even come close. To lump the two together really illustrates what you think about those you are sworn to serve.

And while we're on the subject of numbers - if all the dollars that were uselessly put into supposedly combating so-called road carnage were diverted into, say, cancer research and it's ilk there would be a real, measurable, reduction in suffering way in excess of the annual road toll. Why the hell do we become so damn important to you just because we make that magic transition from foot to wheel?