really? I can't think they've succeeded.The BBC have a particular policy on that show to have a 50/50 male/female audience split.
Whoops, FD beat me to it......
really? I can't think they've succeeded.The BBC have a particular policy on that show to have a 50/50 male/female audience split.
Does anyone honestly believe that the dickheads who pass too close on purpose and/or yell abuse, quite often involving 'pay some road tax!' are not influenced/encouraged by Clarkson and his ilk?
Road safety campaigners and politicians accused Top Gear today of sending out an "irresponsible" message to viewers that speed does not kill.
In response to this, I would ask what are statistically the safest roads in the UK?
If you mean motorways citing their relatively low fatality rate is a red herring.
No corner shops on motorways. No schools, zebra crossings, pedestrians or cyclists.
So saying speeding on motorways is safe so it must be safe everywhere is daft.
In response to this, I would ask what are statistically the safest roads in the UK?
Saying 'speed kills' is daft too.
they're young men who've never discovered the joys of masturbation
Empty ones, with no traffic on them.
As soon as a human being in a hurry, stressed, enraged, not looking, on the phone, applying make-up, pissed, smacked up, driving a defective vehicle, or not wanting to wait a few seconds....ya di, ya di, ya dah................. turns a key in the ignition, then we're ALL in the firing line.
3000 deaths a year back that up.
Or were they all 'accidents'?
I think the Beeb should put an advisory on Top Gear - like a cigarette packet -"Driving kills if not perfomed responsibly" - better still, a notice about how many people died in car 'accidents' since last weeks' hour of joviality.
Now here's 60 minutes of people crashing cars, caravans, lorries and buses - please be aware they do this with a full safety crew, and a risk assessment - you out there don't have such luxuries.
Trouble is, our country hasn't got the balls or any understanding of the concept of personal responsibility to accept they have got it wrong, and it's always someone else's fault.
Er, that comment just doesn't seem right somehow
Anyway, I enjoy Top Gear and take Clarkson with a pinch of salt.
I noted he was wearing a Help for Heroes wrist band so respect to you Jeremy for that.
Perhaps it is the other way round. Those people would exist without Clarkson, but he might not exist without them.
Nope.
The human body is designed to survice running into a tree or rock at up to 20mph. Above that speed the chances of death or serious injury decrease dramatically.
Take 20mph zones:
Typically within Hull, 20 mph zones have achieved reductions[<A href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmtlgr/557/557ap80.htm#note106">106] in injury accidents of:
- — Total accidents -56 per cent
- — Killed & seriously injured accidents -90 per cent
- — Accidents involving child casualties -64 per cent
- — All pedestrian accidents -54 per cent
http://www.publicati...557/557ap80.htm
- — Child pedestrian accidents -74 per cent.
Speed kills.
The BBC have a particular policy on that show to have a 50/50 male/female audience split.