see anyone driving stupid!

[gnuuser]

you guys and gals see many twit drivers?
being fire police I see the results of many pileups, and most of them caused by people driving like idiots. too high a speed, passing illegally or in unsafe conditions, ignoring warning signs, and worst of all driving drunk!
I don't want to see people injured by driving stupid.
please pay attention to traffic directors, we are there to keep people from getting hurt, including those who drive like idiots!
be safe out there!

 

[Pete999]

you guys and gals see many twit drivers?
being fire police I see the results of many pileups, and most of them caused by people driving like idiots. too high a speed, passing illegally or in unsafe conditions, ignoring warning signs, and worst of all driving drunk!
I don't want to see people injured by driving stupid.
please pay attention to traffic directors, we are there to keep people from getting hurt, including those who drive like idiots!
be safe out there!

Lived in Russia for 4 years, never seen anything like it, think they invented bad driving.

 

[Octopus]

The thing see the most, and this is getting far worse, is the number of drivers jumping red lights .................. sooner or later my dash cam will see the tragedy happening.

 

[Spoon]

The thing see the most, and this is getting far worse, is the number of drivers jumping red lights .................. sooner or later my dash cam will see the tragedy happening.

Personally I think every set of light should have a camera, to spot people jumping the lights and also we should have 'average speed' camera's all over the place...
Not many people like this idea as a hell of a lot of people think they have the right to speed.

 

[FatAlan]

What’s ‘fire police’ ? Driving in icy contortions the other morning through a village 30mph limit. Little girlie in her brand new little hatch back overtakes me . Absolutely no idea about driving to the conditions.

 

[Pete999]

Personally I think every set of light should have a camera, to spot people jumping the lights and also we should have 'average speed' camera's all over the place...
Not many people like this idea as a hell of a lot of people think they have the right to speed.

No Spoon not more bluudy cameras please, on the lights yes a good idea, but noooooo more Average speed jobbies please, nooooooo

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

They are keeping the 20mph zones near me. As it would cost 600k to remove old signs and put new ones up. Council cant afford it. They admit 20 has caused more accidents and emissions. The green bit is more important they say now.

 

[Rpa07]

Some think they are invincible and that their cars can do what they do in the Hollywood films and on the play Stations.
Unfortunately that is when you get the reports of 4 or 5 friends dying together in one crash because they haven’t the maturity to realise that physics comes into all of the driving experience.
It must be awful to be a first responder to road crash after road crash - respect and prayers out to them.

 

[Spoon]

No Spoon not more bluudy cameras please, on the lights yes a good idea, but noooooo more Average speed jobbies please, nooooooo

Sorry mate but I think there isn't enough cameras.
Too many muppets on the roads.

 

[telectrix]

better to have more plod on the streets. cameras can't catch bad driving that's below the speed limit.

 

[Spoon]

They are keeping the 20mph zones near me. As it would cost 600k to remove old signs and put new ones up. Council cant afford it. They admit 20 has caused more accidents and emissions. The green bit is more important they say now.

How can driving slower cause more accidents, unless there were muppets driving and tried to overtake a car doing 20 or something else stupid.

 

[Spoon]

better to have more plod on the streets. cameras can't catch bad driving that's below the speed limit.

True mate.
Slow driving can be bad as well. Had to follow a old man driving 35-40mph onto the motorway recently...

 

[FatAlan]

Sorry mate but I think there isn't enough cameras.
Too many muppets on the roads.

It would be better if the cameras were in the right place. A3 round Guildford is 50mph. If you drive through there at 50 there’s always someone up your backside flashing to get past. There’s loads of short slip roads and as a result it is regularly blocked due to idiots having accidents. A few cameras to reinforce the speed limit would work wonders.

 

[Mattsparks]

No more bloody cameras, driver training and awareness is what is needed, and yes more actual police on the roads, most police will let a slight motorway speed infringement go providing you're not driving aggressively, erratically or dangerously.
What do you reckon to increasing the limits say around midnight through til about 4am, the roads are generally quieter, and full of professional drivers at this time?
Take Germany and the de-restricted autobahns... per capita they have fewer accidents than we do!

 

[Spoon]

Take Germany and the de-restricted autobahns... per capita they have fewer accidents than we do!

Maybe the average German drivers have more intelligence than the average English drivers.

 

[FatAlan]

You should try navigating the car parks and roads round Godalming and Guildford. The drivers are so elderly it’s like trying to navigate your way through a load of Hexbugs !

 

[Bobster]

Take Germany and the de-restricted autobahns... per capita they have fewer accidents than we do!

There are very few de restricted areas any more.

 

[Octopus]

It would be better if the cameras were in the right place. A3 round Guildford is 50mph. If you drive through there at 50 there’s always someone up your backside flashing to get past..

Probably me.

People doing 50 with nothing inside them or ahead of them would be shot at dawn of it was up to me.

 

[Octopus]

It would be better if the cameras were in the right place. A3 round Guildford is 50mph. If you drive through there at 50 there’s always someone up your backside flashing to get past..

Probably me.

People doing 50 with nothing inside them or ahead of them would be shot at dawn of it was up to me.

 

[Christopher Bernard]

I have only ever seen 2 people run red lights but what I see more often than not, are people who blatantly don't care for speed limits and being someone who simply never goes over the limit I tend to irritate them when I'm in front. People not indicating really annoy me but that's more not knowing what they are about to do than anything else.

 

[static zap]

The thing see the most, and this is getting far worse, is the number of drivers jumping red lights .................. sooner or later my dash cam will see the tragedy happening.

I get the feeling in some areas they have shaved extra seconds out of lights sequences .--THERE IS LESS TIME ,safety margin to jump the lights in -- So those bad habits -will end nastily.

Some pedestrians cross the diagonal at lights ...
== No central refuge ..
Not just the drivers !

 

[Strima]

I get the odd idiot caught on my Dashcm, fitted it due to the amount of near misses I had in Londonistan...

These were recorded in the last couple of months.

 

[gnuuser]

What’s ‘fire police’ ? Driving in icy contortions the other morning through a village 30mph limit. Little girlie in her brand new little hatch back overtakes me . Absolutely no idea about driving to the conditions.

fire police are emergency police officers who assist the regular police and fire fighters, We control traffic and search and rescue. vehicle rescue, and assist medical teams on sites of fires, accidents and sometimes special events such as parades, and large ceremonies.
(Much prefer these)
many times we detour people around to alternate roads when we have to close down a road.
Its all volunteer work ( and on call almost any hour of the day or night).

 

[gnuuser]

just last night heavy fog and visibility very poor we could barely see past the bonnet of my toyota highlander (and my eyesight is good)
young twit passed me at a high rate of speed ( in a 40 mph zone)

 

[telectrix]

No more bloody cameras, driver training and awareness is what is needed, and yes more actual police on the roads, most police will let a slight motorway speed infringement go providing you're not driving aggressively, erratically or dangerously.
What do you reckon to increasing the limits say around midnight through til about 4am, the roads are generally quieter, and full of professional drivers at this time?
Take Germany and the de-restricted autobahns... per capita they have fewer accidents than we do!

my thoughts on motorways are as follows.

lane 1... 60 mph limit , with a 50 mph min
lane 2 ... 75 mph limit, with a 60 mph min
lane 3 90 mph limit with 75 min. this, IMO would ease tailgating and congestion.

 

[gnuuser]

most people forget that they are driving a large mass and fail to consider what it takes and how much more distance is needed to bring such a mass to a safe stop! or how road conditions affect that distance.
driving large trucks and buses taught me really quick.

 

[Strima]

my thoughts on motorways are as follows.

lane 1... 60 mph limit , with a 50 mph min
lane 2 ... 75 mph limit, with a 60 mph min
lane 3 90 mph limit with 75 min. this, IMO would ease tailgating and congestion.

German Autobahns are normally two lanes with no speed limit, we have three lanes on most of our motorways...

People bimbling along in lane two looking at clouds and thinking of poetry cause a lot of issues.

I was taught not to undertake, as a driving instructor I taught people not to undertake. Now I undertake as it's normally the easier and safer option...

 

[Squid]

Sorry mate but I think there isn't enough cameras.
Too many muppets on the roads.

Hand your licence back, thats one muppet less on the road ;o))))))

 

[Squid]

No more bloody cameras, driver training and awareness is what is needed, and yes more actual police on the roads, most police will let a slight motorway speed infringement go providing you're not driving aggressively, erratically or dangerously.
What do you reckon to increasing the limits say around midnight through til about 4am, the roads are generally quieter, and full of professional drivers at this time?
Take Germany and the de-restricted autobahns... per capita they have fewer accidents than we do!

Better off getting a rollicking from the traffic and them explaining the errors of your ways then an automatic fine that just fills the Governments coffers.

 

[Squid]

All the time,

 

[Spoon]

Hand your licence back, thats one muppet less on the road ;o))))))

But I'm a sensible driver.

 

[telectrix]

and Hitler was a humanitarian.

 

[Squid]

and Hitler was a humanitarian.

Wasn't he a vegetarian as well?

I mean Hitler not Spoon.......

 

[Spoon]

Wasn't he a vegetarian as well?

I mean Hitler not Spoon.......

I like eating meat... Now don't take that the wrong way @SWD ...

 

[telectrix]

Hitler was a vegetarian, non-smoker, non drinker, not sexually active. what a boring old fart. no wonder he started a world war.

 

[Spoon]

Hitler was a vegetarian, non-smoker, non drinker, not sexually active.

Whats the point in living then.....

 

[Squid]

Whats the point in living then.....

In his early years he trained as an Electrician....

 

[Spoon]

In his early years he trained as an Electrician....

Electrician... why would you want to be one of them weirdos???

 

[Squid]

Electrician... why would you want to be one of them weirdos???

World domination......

 

[Spoon]

World domination......

What.. conquer the world one shed at a time...

 

[Squid]

What.. conquer the world one shed at a time...

In your case one single socket at a time...... ;o))))

 

[Des 56]

Hitler was a spark,that Polish guy Leck Waleser (or something like it) was the president
I wonder how many more leaders did their time with screwdriver and cutters and how many plumbers have made the grade

(For comparison purposes any leaders who were plumbers can include community councillors)

 

[Squid]

Most leaders are snowflakes with no comprehension of having to live and work in the real world.