Quote from durbster :

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Regarding the death of the girl, it wouldn't have mattered if the driver was doing 50 or even 40mph, if she wasn't lit up, she wasn't going to be seen at all. Her stupidity for walking down an unlit road.

concidering 7 out of 10 cars i fix arent safe ( i.e bald tyres ) i recommend that they cut theyre speed untill the they make there vehicle safe...


if this is what it takes to make the roads safe, you have my best wishes... why drive so fast anyways... take your time... enjoy your drive...

Quote from tristancliffe :

Maybe the 50mph could be the MINIMUM speed! Thus meaning that mopeds and cyclists stay off proper roads

+1. I'd just have to teach my mum her car can do more than 40.

Quote from SamH :

In the infinitely wise words of George Orwell..
Two Wheels Bad,
Four Wheels Good.

Doesn't it get changed to "Four wheels good, Two wheels better" later on?

Quote :

Two Wheels Bad,
Four Wheels Good.

A quick semi-OT:

On my route to uni I usually see a kid (who can't be more than 12) CYCLING to school along a busy 60mph "rural" road. What kind of stupid middle class twat parents send their young daughter to school on a bike on her own on a busy commuter route ffs?

Stupidly, stupidly dangerous! And a pain in the arse having to tiptoe past on the wrong side of the road as she weaves all over the bloody place too. Why is there not a minimum age or a test for cycling on public roads?

Quote from TiJay :

What kind of stupid middle class twat parents send their young daughter to school on a bike on her own on a busy commuter route ffs?

Nah the middle class parents deliver their children to school in the Range Rover, running down cyclists on the way.

I think however you draw the line, it's not anything in particular that kills - only idiocy.

Jeremy Clarkson once said (when he wasn't slagging something off ) that it isn't speed that kills, its coming to a stop very suddenly that gets you.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Maybe the 50mph could be the MINIMUM speed! Thus meaning that mopeds and cyclists stay off proper roads

Excellent idea.

You for Prime Minster!

Quote from TiJay :

What kind of stupid middle class twat parents send their young daughter to school on a bike on her own on a busy commuter route ffs?

You're absolutely right, I reckon. It's amazingly poor judgement.

Regardless of speed limits, cycling on British roads, mixing it up with both white van man AND soccer-mom, is the equivalent of repeatedly kicking Murphy's law in the bollocks while shouting "wanna piece o' me?". Eventually he'll throw the book at you.

3,000 deaths per year out of 60 million road users isn't unacceptable at all, it's called natural selection.

Or you just get the twats in Toyota Hilux that pull infront of you without looking, then brake. So you ride into the back of them.

****head.