No, people's inability to understand risk has damaged people's ability to understand risk.
A35 just outside Lyme Regis, I presume he means:
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Obviously a fairly dangerous place to overtake
In that picture posted, I can understand it, considering that prior to the hatchings is a turning right, and immediately after the hatchings is, a turning right.
If a car is sat there waiting to turn right and you come barreling up the hatchings past an array of slow cars and lorries, what are you going to do when you suddenly come across the car waiting to turn right?
Don't worry, it wasn't all bad for the 530i driver, he still managed a smile even with his car in the hedge when he fondled his indicator stalks and felt the sheer quality..
How is that dangerous![]()
its up hill around a corner
[TW]Fox;15788176 said:So whats so special about this particular hill around a corner then? There are many others on the same road even.
[TW]Fox;15788176 said:So whats so special about this particular hill around a corner then? There are many others on the same road even.
Looking at the photo it appears theres a number of property's on the right so I'd guess that recently there has either been an accident and / or near miss involving somebody turning right which has prompted the move.
[TW]Fox;15793856 said:So what? I know that might sound heartless but come on. There are many, many other roads in the UK just like this where they've not done the same thing. If it isn't being done on EVERY single road with the same properties in the UK then why not?
And what are they going to do the next time somebody has an accident turning right on a SINGLE carriageway A road? Close the road for ever? Put hatchmarkings on the entire road?
I think you are being heartless on your assumption that they should do nothing if a road has a proven accident record. (It sounds like that's what you are saying).
I'm sure if (and it's my only rational I can think of that validates this type of thing) on any road where accidents are occuring on a fatal level, they would investigate and suggest possible improvements, then apply any easy/common sense suggestions, oddly common sense dictates you wouldn't close a single carraigeway, but you may chamge the road layout to accomodate the junction better.
The thing is, you feel that there is no way you would have an accident on that road and are completely 'safe', or why else would you find the situation so profoundly confusing?, I'm sure that the people who had the accidents probably thought the same thing too..
I think you are being heartless on your assumption that they should do nothing if a road has a proven accident record. (It sounds like that's what you are saying).
I'm sure if (and it's my only rational I can think of that validates this type of thing) on any road where accidents are occuring on a fatal level, they would investigate and suggest possible improvements, then apply any easy/common sense suggestions, oddly common sense dictates you wouldn't close a single carraigeway, but you may chamge the road layout to accomodate the junction better.
The thing is, you feel that there is no way you would have an accident on that road and are completely 'safe', or why else would you find the situation so profoundly confusing?, I'm sure that the people who had the accidents probably thought the same thing too..
[TW]Fox;15794367 said:Having now checked the accident data for the last 10 years I can now say that there have been no fatal accidents on the section of road photographed in this thread.
Even if accidents had happened, whats to say it wasn't just bad driving that caused them?
For example, accident near bridge with speed limit 40mph. Driver is smoking, texting and steering with elbows, rear ends a mini kills everyone.
You think because inept people are causing accidents the road should be changed or a lower speed limit introduced?
This is exactly what the police have said about the new 20mph speed limits, they won't work as most of the time it is a driver related issue.
Sorry to bring speed into it, it is just easier to make examples, I am not arguing about speed limits, just the principle that a lot of accidents are due to bad driving and not rules/regulations of the road.