[News] Is your life worth more than a 2 year suspended prison sentence?

[zefarelly]

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Job creation, he can afford a driver.

 

[Stat Brother]

Job creation, he can afford a driver.

He can clearly also afford to not obey the speed limit!!!

 

[Recidivist]

If i fired a gun into an area where there might be people and it hit one by accident e.g. I didn't specifically aim it at someone i would be done for manslaughter as a minimum. Taking a ton weight of metal down a road where there might be people at an unsafe speed is no different.

Pretty sure that there is some laws of physics which would say that driving at 50% higher speed increases the force (and killing power) by a much larger percentage.

The force increases by the square of the speed so, in this case, the force of impact is more than double at 60mph than at 40mph.

Learnt that a speed awareness course of several years ago which certainly changed my driving style significantly.

As someone who used to do 30k miles per year I can understand why people speed though. The roads are so congested that driving almost anywhere in the South East (and beyond) is enough to try the patience of a saint and the opportunity to make the most of some clear road is hard to resist.

Doesn't excuse it, of course, but the idea of using the pandemic to alter work patterns by working at home would transform the roads and (perhaps?) people's attitude to speeding.....


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[Stat Brother]

The force increases by the square of the speed so, in this case, the force of impact is more than double at 60mph than at 40mph.

Learnt that a speed awareness course of several years ago which certainly changed my driving style significantly.

As someone who used to do 30k miles per year I can understand why people speed though. The roads are so congested that driving almost anywhere in the South East (and beyond) is enough to try the patience of a saint and the opportunity to make the most of some clear road is hard to resist.

Doesn't excuse it, of course, but the idea of using the pandemic to alter work patterns by working at home would transform the roads and (perhaps?) people's attitude to speeding.....


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[Worried Man Blues]

He'll be missed skidding to a halt outside the school gates then!