Again, from the "Telegraph": tinyurl.com/5ylrx3
Notice the words from Jim Fitzpatrick, apparently "Road Safey Minister":
(the consultation document) "will not be recommending a reduction from 80 to 50," he told The Times. "We are not convinced that dropping to 50 is the right answer.
"Drivers who are between 50 and 80mg are not the ones we are most worried about. It's the ones above 100.
"If you look at a comparison with other countries which have 50 rather than 80, our safety levels compare very favourably."
Crikey. Sense!
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Sense!
He'll soon have that removed, at least he will if he gets to stay in position!
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Hey, maybe he will apply that to speed:
""Drivers who are between 50 and 80mph are not the ones we are most worried about. It's the ones above 100."
Make sense doesnt it?
EDIT: Where appropriate of course.
Edited by cheddar on 06/10/2008 at 15:28
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""Drivers who are between 50 and 80mph are not the ones we are most worried about. It's the ones above 100." Make sense doesnt it? >> EDIT: Where appropriate of course.
No, it doesn't make sense.
When it comes to speed, the situation is very different, because the risks of speeding depend so much on location and conditions. If you look at how speeds are enforced, very little of it is on motorways: most of the cameras are on roads with 30-60mph limits.
Chances are that the driver doing 40 in a 30mph limit is creating a greater danger than the one doing 85 on a motorway. And 50 in a residential area is much more dangerous than 100mph on a motorway.
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I am not going to argue NW, I was being a little flippant around the OP's assertion that this is a rare example of a transport minister talking sense and meaning to infer that they/he could do with talking some sense re speed enformenent as well.
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Sorry, Cheddar, I missed the flippancy. :)
Anyway, I'm sure that if pressed on the issue, the minister will get back on message and explain that the clampdown on drink-driving will be helped no end by ID cards and the new multi-billion-pound plan to store all our emails, text msgs and phone conversations. (These measures will of course also make the grass grow greener and help children learn better at skule, as well as reducing the chance of dropped toast falling butter-side-down)
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Some countries have different levels of penalty for 50 & 80.
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