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Originally Posted by The Bear
How many people would wear seat belts if there was not a law that penalised the non wearing of them, and how many lives have been saved and serious injury avoided because of this law?
How many lives have been saved and serious injury avoided by the introduction of breath tests where the very knowledge of the test and what then follows?
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We're not debating these points and it could be argued that some deaths have occurred when people have been trapped by their seatbelts
As regards breath tests you may have noticed a reduction in traffic officers brought about by the wholesale introduction of the speed camera hence there are not so many patrols to administer them or indeed watch for law breaking drivers
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Or unroadworthy cars taken off the roads by MOT tests?
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or become unroadworthy one one day after the test and then not seen for a year
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Or all the other road safety legislation that is in place.
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All those nice new ideas like heavier cars which pushes up fuel consumption and thicker pillars to restrict vision
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Because it prevents fools from overt foolishness and punishes those who do so anyway is that a reason to decry such legislation? Or to find it in the least bit funny that some idiot acted in an idiotic manner all in the name of a “joke”?
As I wrote, if there had been an accident as a result of the loss of control that the behaviour that forms the start of this thread because of such stupidity then the people in the car would have had the book thrown at them.
So why should they not be penalised for the same stupidity just because fortunately on that occasion there was no accident. The same stupidity was there nevertheless, simply the outcome was different.
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Perhaps at the time of the incident they where observing the road and and confident and able to do what occurred
If the government where interested in road safety they would start engineering our road system properly instead of the half assed attempts they do know
for example the new black top which is being used is slippery and Norfolk CC have recently resurfaced parts of the A146 and A143 and have had to put up new signs advising slippery road conditions
This is better then Suffolk CC who have just resurfaced and will like you blame irresponsible drives for the poor use of materials
Did you bother to go to the sites I suggested ?
Where you the driver I saw last month in front of me who never indicated at any roundabout and who only exceeded the posted limits(20,30, NSL) when they failed to see the 20 limit and carried on doing 25 - this is the driver who should be targeted they didn't have a clue about road awareness
I also suggest you spend some time in a lorry cab and learn a bit about driver awareness