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I still think the best way to stop this is to start staking out the PM, his cabinet and high up police chiefs, catch them speeding then see how suddenly speed cameras drop in the areas they frequent most
I can just see it now - you see the PM coming down the road and you raise a pointy gun type thing.
Better make sure you write your will before you do that!
However, a 20-ton articulated rig is going to take a lot more stopping than an average family car, for the same speed, so I guess we have to put up with lower limits for vans and lorries
I guess you are right, but is it a fact that a 20 ton rig will take more distance to stop? Those things tend to have far better brakes than any average family car.
What amazes me on motorways is when you get artics ploughing along only feet away from the artic in front. No way can the guy behind see in front of him, so if the front artic pulls up quick the guy behind is history.
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Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 9:50 am Post subject:
HandyMac wrote:
I guess you are right, but is it a fact that a 20 ton rig will take more distance to stop? Those things tend to have far better brakes than any average family car.
Yes, they have better brakes than a family car, but they certainly don't stop faster.
They are 10 times the weight of a family car, they take much longer to stop, they are more likely to lose control while stopping, they can't swerve to avoid obstacles and the tyres and suspension systems are designed to carry heavy weight, not take corners.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject: Police in the York area
Nice one! A van with infra red cameras, on an unlit straight stretch of A road (A1079), no warning signs, at 10 minutes past midnight Sunday night / Monday morning.
Not a chance in hell of knowing it was there. I travel this route at least twice a week and have never seen a camera there in the 9 years I have travelled this route.
It was positioned to get people as they increase speed from some "traffic calming" and unecessary road side furniture onto a straight that is about 3/4 mile long.
Just venting my spleen.
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