Milo
Guru
- Location
- Melksham, Wilts
Remove his bonnet one day.
MERV said:A motorist at work calls me "bonnet fodder".Very nice the fat git.
MERV said:A motorist at work calls me "bonnet fodder".Very nice the fat git.
BentMikey said:Whereas he's far more likely to be a heart attack victim than you are, and far more likely to die from one than you are from a traffic collision. Cyclists tend to live 2 years longer than the average citizen.
Animal said:F-ucking hell!
It's a town centre. The speed limit would have been 30. That should be a manslaughter charge.
Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/4etrjr
BentMikey said:Whereas he's far more likely to be a heart attack victim than you are, and far more likely to die from one than you are from a traffic collision. Cyclists tend to live 2 years longer than the average citizen.
BentMikey said:I dare you to make some sort of cheeky heart attack comment to him next time he comes up with the bonnet fodder though!
domtyler said:Don't forget it is the lack of experience that is the real danger so you always have to have inexperienced drivers on the roads, otherwise they would never get any.
domd1979 said:Not quite the right location - it was here, in the northbound direction:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&h...52.79765,-2.101264&spn=0.012014,0.028839&z=15
Its a 30mph limit, there is a reasonable width mandatory cycle lane, the road climbs up to bridge the railway, then back down. I cycle along here most days.
Mr Pig said:I agree, but more can still be done. I passed my IAM advanced driving test about ten years ago and at the time I was told that there were two things that significantly reduced the chances of a driver being in an accident. One was doing advanced training, like the IAM or RSPA tests, and the other was years of experience. You can't speed up the ageing process but you can train people better.
The IAM test covers motorway driving, hazard/risk assessment and lots of other important aspects of driving that are either not covered at all in the standard test or are not covered in anything like as much depth. If we trained drivers to a higher standard they'd crash less. It's not complicated.
Hairy Jock said:Is there such a thing as a "mandatory cycle lane"??