Road toll - Police stupid obsession blaming speed

[granstar]

Ohh!, Thanks for clarifying, I can go back to my knitting now and rest easy.

[Akzle]

I am meaning the vehicle shit for brains!!

you're a fuckwit.

[Honest Andy]

I am meaning the vehicle shit for brains!!

I saw a shitforbrains once parked under a tree. I think is was a Mitsubishi. It was between a Toyota Enema and a Renault Migraine

It didn't look very fast

[Berries]

I think you will find that with most vehicle v tree crashes excessive speed is a contributing factor.

In the 600 injury crashes last year where a tree was hit travelling too fast for the conditions was listed as a possible contributing factor (for the vehicle) in less than a third of them.

[FJRider]

Trust me.....the big C can only aspire to one day being able to upgrade to shit for brains....

That would be a huge step forward

You can't beat commonsense into idiots with a big hammer ... but it might be fun to try ...

[FJRider]

you're a fuckwit.

Don't be so polite ...

[rastuscat]

Great to have some real intellectual discussion going on. Thanks fellas.

[granstar]

Great to have some real intellectual discussion going on. Thanks fellas.

Appears not all fellas here

[scumdog]

Great to have some real intellectual discussion going on. Thanks fellas.

A rare event on KB!

So rare in fact that I failed to find any...

[riffer]

I know.

I spent a huge amount of time typing my stuff with one hand on account of being half crippled by some dickhead pulling in front of my Aprilia and no bastard understood a word of what I said.

Sigh.

Here goes again.

Velocity in excess of the speed limit doesn't necessarily cause accidents, up to a certain level.

What it does do is decide how much it's gonna fuck you up if you hit something.

It's impossible to argue with that is it? Don't answer that; I'm sure some fool will try.

[Berries]

Who can argue with simple physics?

I do question the "up to a certain level" comment though. What do you mean by that?

[rastuscat]

Who can argue with simple physics?

I do question the "up to a certain level" comment though. What do you mean by that?

Speed causes some crashes. Not many, but some. It makes gap selection harder for observers, makes poor corcornering lines far worse, makes bad calls turn out worse.

Of those crashes not csused by speed, certainly the greater the speed, the worse the outcome.

The speed obsession grew in the
early 80s when someone realised thst crashes are virtually inevitable, as humans make human errors. So by slowing everyone down, the inevitable crashes will happen at lower speeds, with less kinetic energy imparted.

Of course, if we were all awesome drivers then speed wouldn't be a problem. But collectively we aren't entirely O for orsum.

[Akzle]

Of course, if we were all awesome drivers then speed wouldn't be a problem. But collectively we aren't entirely O for orsum.

so. why are the shit ones allowed?
surely if they weren't, the remainder would get where we're going faster and safer

[Akzle]

Who can argue with simple physics?

i could name one... but i don't want to invoke it's stupidity.

[awayatc]

i could name one... but i don't want to invoe it's stupidity.

She's a fuckwit