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I guess thats a positive way of looking at it but still think that the total people are expected to pay for speeding when it is now so common is not right (if I get caught it would be £100 for me as well). The government set the fine at £60 because thats a reasonable amount, then the insurance companies wade it and use it as an excuse to pile £100s on over a few years.
If the governments fine was 3 points and £560 there would be uproar.
If the governments fine was 3 points and £560 there would be uproar.
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Your local magistrates must be pretty benevolent people.
The speeding fines around this part of the West Country are comparatively massive, I just hope I never get caught anyway!
I find all the encouragement that I need around here to follow your sensible advice.
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The speeding fines around this part of the West Country are comparatively massive, I just hope I never get caught anyway!
I find all the encouragement that I need around here to follow your sensible advice.
Les
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Shocking attitude really.
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Speeding motorists do cause accidents. Especially young, performance car driver's.
I was no angel and often enjoyed the performance of the cars I used to have. But I wouldn't have complained if I had been caught. Goes with the territory.
I must admit though, having a child certainly slows you down. I often find myself pootling along in the slow lane at 50-60mph if my son is in the car.
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3% of motoring accidents are accredited to speed being the cause......I would also put the question how many accidents are caused by driving a car being so under powered you can't get out the way.....prior to my scoob I had my fair share of **** doing 45mph in a 60, you go to overtake and they speed up so you can't get by and nearly cause an accident.....speed and power isn't all bad!
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3% of motoring accidents are accredited to speed being the cause......I would also put the question how many accidents are caused by driving a car being so under powered you can't get out the way.....prior to my scoob I had my fair share of **** doing 45mph in a 60, you go to overtake and they speed up so you can't get by and nearly cause an accident.....speed and power isn't all bad!
In a slow car? Don't overtake then, it's not really going to save you that much time anyway and do lives really depend upon your getting somewhere 1 minute earlier?
I do get what you say though. What's probably more of a nightmare are things like the shoddy breaks you can have on lower specced cars, that can be bloody dangerous when someone in a better specced car decides to slam on the breaks, sometimes even standard breaking distances are irrelevant then! (2 second rule etc.)
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3% of motoring accidents are accredited to speed being the cause......I would also put the question how many accidents are caused by driving a car being so under powered you can't get out the way.....prior to my scoob I had my fair share of **** doing 45mph in a 60, you go to overtake and they speed up so you can't get by and nearly cause an accident.....speed and power isn't all bad!
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Of course you can do more damage at high speed, but the likelihood of walking out of a crash at 60/70 is no better than your odds at 100 in my view.....I've lost enough friends already at 22 through car crashes and they were all 50 or below!! Its not the speed that kills, its the condition of the road.....You are safer taking your subaru to its absolute top end on the M1 at 3am than doing 40mph in a 60mph when theres snow about.....but one gets you locked up and one is classed as safely under the limit......speed is only one factor in a million!/..........but you are right that you cannot deny that higher speeds increase braking distances etc
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Of course you can do more damage at high speed, but the likelihood of walking out of a crash at 60/70 is no better than your odds at 100 in my view.....I've lost enough friends already at 22 through car crashes and they were all 50 or below!! Its not the speed that kills, its the condition of the road.....You are safer taking your subaru to its absolute top end on the M1 at 3am than doing 40mph in a 60mph when theres snow about.....but one gets you locked up and one is classed as safely under the limit......speed is only one factor in a million!/..........but you are right that you cannot deny that higher speeds increase braking distances etc
Or did they just crash doing 30mph in a 30mph zone on sheet ice?
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I suspect the former.
And of course you are safer on the M1 at night doing 100mph than doing 50mph in 30mph. There'a not much to hit on the M1!
What really pisses me off is when you see 1.1 litre hatch backs having the **** revved out of them in congested areas.
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