Just heard that Suffolk police started a year long blitz on speeding drivers last January.
Suffolk fatalities in year 2000.......58
Fatalities after 9 months of blitz on speeding in 2001..........102
(September figure, running total)
When will these plonkers learn?
Interfere with the 85th percentile speed and deaths increase.
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How many of those deaths were of people being chased by the police, I wonder?
I thought that the UK had abolished capital punishment, but it still seems to apply if being chased or if you get in their way!
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You sure your names not Me, he didn't like the old bill either.
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I'm not Me, I'm me.
I've got nothing against the police, other than there are not enough on the beat so that they can only respond to emergencies.
However, it does seem that if they are chasing a stolen car they can get carried away and the stolen car lands up in an accident, often with a member of the public.
Tactics need to be devised to follow rather than chase and to try to get the vehicle back to its owner in one piece.
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Brian,
Yes unfortunately the death penalty was abolished, but I don't recall it being used by the Police if they were chasing you or getting in their way.
I will certainly watch my rear view mirror even more closely.
Alvin
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the government is holding an inquiry into speed enforcement issues, and are inviting you all to write in!
www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/tlgrpnt15.htm
The Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee has decided to undertake an inquiry into the nature and effects of illegal and inappropriate road traffic speed in the UK.
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Brian
Think laterally.
If scroats didn't pinch cars then no chase,
and, if there were no cars then no chase, no speeding, no accidents, no pollution, no obstruction, no congestion ad infinitum.
The later would make a horrible world.
DVD
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It's not speed that kills
It is the attitude that kills, impatience!!
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