Unfortunately the governments plan to lower speed limits will only increase this number, slower driving will make people pass out cars in dangerous places.
What’s up with the amount of deaths on the road recently ?
I’m truly sorry for those families that lost loved ones.
The new speed limits won’t change people’s behaviour. The majority speed and some aren’t good at it. I live on a R road with a few sharp corners. I’ve seen cars end up upside down in a ditch (thankfully no serious injuries) because they thought they could take a corner at 100+KMh when the road is an 80.
Traffic laws like speeding/dangerous driving/etc need to be enforced and harsh penalties for drivers driving without insurance and a proper license. Speed cameras too.
Jack Chambers will be wringing his hands
Why is it nearly always men
In that article there was one SVC, two pedestrians one of which was on a motorway which has no pedestrian facilities and a motorcycle accident and a case of driver error into a lake. How many are speed related? We don’t know so blaming speed is stupid at this point. I would say road conditions are probably a factor in one or two at least
If I was a journalist I’d research the facts and present them before making a grand conclusion.
Multipronged tactic is needed.
We need another brutal RSA advert campaign.
We need traffic cameras at traffic lights (no more of these dangerous cunts who follow through a red light because the car in front got through on green etc)
Increase penalty points from 3 to 6 for speeding, so you get caught twice speeding your licence is revoked.
Same for using a phone which I see everyday, increase from 3 to 6, get caught twice, licence revoked.
Unless we start revoking licences then the dangerous drivers will stay on the road.
Reducing speed limits is more of fuel efficiency tactic not a safety one. What really needs to very done is changing how they evaluate speed limits on roads. Currently it’s based on “Road type” according to a map….and thats how you get 80kmph single lane winding roads in the countryside.
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Unfortunately the governments plan to lower speed limits will only increase this number, slower driving will make people pass out cars in dangerous places.
What’s up with the amount of deaths on the road recently ?
I’m truly sorry for those families that lost loved ones.
The new speed limits won’t change people’s behaviour. The majority speed and some aren’t good at it. I live on a R road with a few sharp corners. I’ve seen cars end up upside down in a ditch (thankfully no serious injuries) because they thought they could take a corner at 100+KMh when the road is an 80.
Traffic laws like speeding/dangerous driving/etc need to be enforced and harsh penalties for drivers driving without insurance and a proper license. Speed cameras too.
Jack Chambers will be wringing his hands
Why is it nearly always men
In that article there was one SVC, two pedestrians one of which was on a motorway which has no pedestrian facilities and a motorcycle accident and a case of driver error into a lake. How many are speed related? We don’t know so blaming speed is stupid at this point. I would say road conditions are probably a factor in one or two at least
If I was a journalist I’d research the facts and present them before making a grand conclusion.
Multipronged tactic is needed.
We need another brutal RSA advert campaign.
We need traffic cameras at traffic lights (no more of these dangerous cunts who follow through a red light because the car in front got through on green etc)
Increase penalty points from 3 to 6 for speeding, so you get caught twice speeding your licence is revoked.
Same for using a phone which I see everyday, increase from 3 to 6, get caught twice, licence revoked.
Unless we start revoking licences then the dangerous drivers will stay on the road.
Reducing speed limits is more of fuel efficiency tactic not a safety one. What really needs to very done is changing how they evaluate speed limits on roads. Currently it’s based on “Road type” according to a map….and thats how you get 80kmph single lane winding roads in the countryside.