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Aug 23 2016, 11:18 AM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Aug 23 2016, 07:03 AM) Which would all tend to suggest that whatever we spend on infrastructure improvement wouldn't make much difference to safety at least. So, given the time an investigation and then the design and construction of a physical solution will take, we might as well put the money to better use trying to speed the imminent introduction of driverless vehicles. And self crashing ones. Fnarr.
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Aug 23 2016, 12:15 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Aug 23 2016, 12:18 PM) And self crashing ones. Fnarr. Yeah!.......but they can't be much worse can they. Glad the Luddite Tendancy is still going strong
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Sep 10 2016, 06:52 PM
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QUOTE (spartacus @ Sep 10 2016, 07:29 PM) He's being charged with dangerous driving. I'd say excess speed was a critical factor Actually, he was using his mobile to change his music.
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Sep 11 2016, 09:37 AM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Sep 11 2016, 10:07 AM) Sorry - who are we talking about?
Edit: Ah - I found a brief story in the NWN about an Andover man who has been charged following last month's fatalities. But no details apart from the charges. The Forum's favourite has the details!! Link
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Sep 11 2016, 10:55 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 11 2016, 10:37 AM) The Forum's favourite has the details!! LinkPretty reasonable outline. Given the hideous cost of administering justice, perhaps it's time we looked at privatising the Courts properly. The sale of newsprint is declining rapidly, so why not exploit the undoubted expertise and disinterested analysis provided by Mail reporters and let them run the Courts on an agency basis? After all, most of them are pretty sound on British values.
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Sep 11 2016, 12:25 PM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 11 2016, 10:37 AM) The Forum's favourite has the details!! LinkThanks. So he was Polish. That makes all the difference. Dreadful rag.
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Sep 11 2016, 03:34 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Sep 11 2016, 01:25 PM) Thanks. So he was Polish. That makes all the difference. Dreadful rag. By the sales figures, it's still remarkably popular, but I've never worked out quite why when everyone seems to feign a very different opinion.
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Sep 11 2016, 05:51 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Sep 11 2016, 10:07 AM) I found a brief story in the NWN about an Andover man who has been charged following last month's fatalities. But no details apart from the charges. So, he was from Andover. What difference does that make? Bloody NWN!
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Sep 12 2016, 06:49 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 11 2016, 06:51 PM) So, he was from Andover. What difference does that make? Bloody NWN! Do you want Andoverites moving here? Readingites are bad enough, but Andover, its even a different County!
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Sep 12 2016, 10:09 AM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Sep 10 2016, 12:15 PM) Excess speed played no part in the latest tragedy on the A34. But still, don't let that stop the uninformed from whining on. If the vehicle was driving at 50mph or even 40mph, would there have been fatalities? Who knows?! Of course speed was not the main reason for the accident, but I don't think it's fair to say excess speed played no part. The driver was driving too fast to perform the manoeuvre (of adjusting the music on his phone (allegedly)).
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