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A civil engineering friend who works on roads was inside a closed lane talking to a couple of colleagues when he was suddenly knocked out stone cold in front of them as a passing vehicle clipped a cone and sent it flying, hitting him in the head.
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By *illie99TV/TS 7 weeks ago
Central Scotland |
Motorway workers can be parked on the hard shoulder. A chevron panel the size of a barn door and covered in flashing amber lights. Yet people still run into the back of them, even on straights with half a mile clear visibility  |
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"Don't doubt it. The standards of driving have dropped off a cliff in the last few years.Not just bad driving or mistakes but truly dangerous incidents seem commonplace now. "
Not sure I agree with this. We have far more drivers on the road than ever before increasing the chances that we will witness poor driving. We also have access now to recorded footage from thousands and thousands of cars so get to witness incidents we would never have seen. These two together can make it seem standards are dropping.
Whilst it's fair to say that the huge drop in death and injury on our roads over the past 50 years or so has a lot to do with vehicle and road design, the fact it has remained so relatively low, despite the massive increase in road users, suggests there hasn't been a significant decline in standards.
That said, I do agree that driving standards are pretty poor, it's just that they have always been that way. When you put more and more poor drivers together it is inevitable that incidents will occur.
I've never understood why driving is considered different to the operation of just about any other piece of deadly machinery in that you get trained once and then allowed to use it for ever.
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Yes, mobile phones and social media obsessions are a major cause of dangerous inattention whilst driving.
Modern cars have numerous safety features for the occupants and anyone they collide with, including a pedestrian impact.
But too many drivers simply have shit for brains!
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Just morons driving to fast,too close and not paying attention or abiding to the law's of the road.
How many people do we see jumping red lights today? I can guarantee that every day I will witness at least 6 and that's without really looking for them. |
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There is a video online of an out of control double decker crashing into buildings and hits a man. The man is knocked down and it looks horrific but he gets up,dusts himself down and reportedly goes back to the pub. |
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"Don't doubt it. The standards of driving have dropped off a cliff in the last few years.Not just bad driving or mistakes but truly dangerous incidents seem commonplace now.
Not sure I agree with this. We have far more drivers on the road than ever before increasing the chances that we will witness poor driving. We also have access now to recorded footage from thousands and thousands of cars so get to witness incidents we would never have seen. These two together can make it seem standards are dropping.
Whilst it's fair to say that the huge drop in death and injury on our roads over the past 50 years or so has a lot to do with vehicle and road design, the fact it has remained so relatively low, despite the massive increase in road users, suggests there hasn't been a significant decline in standards.
That said, I do agree that driving standards are pretty poor, it's just that they have always been that way. When you put more and more poor drivers together it is inevitable that incidents will occur.
I've never understood why driving is considered different to the operation of just about any other piece of deadly machinery in that you get trained once and then allowed to use it for ever.
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Don't agree. I've been driving for 40 years. I've never before seen someone undertake at 80 up the hard shoulder. Jumping lights at roundabouts at every single change of lights. Tailgating everytime I drive at the speed limit. Agree there are more cars. And there have always been mistakes and bad driving. But I'm talking incidents that are lucky not to cause death. Can't speak for every part of the country but we have a preoccupation with speed and complete ignorance of safety. |
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"There is a video online of an out of control double decker crashing into buildings and hits a man. The man is knocked down and it looks horrific but he gets up,dusts himself down and reportedly goes back to the pub."
Chuck norris? |
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An hour ago on a 4 lane motorway in Belfast a car was travelling well above the speed limit in the far right lane and flashing his lights at other drivers.
Without warning and no indication he shot straight across the lanes and veered up a slip road.
That one movement brought 3 lanes of traffic to an immediate halt and I've no idea how there were no collisions. |
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I witnessed a near miss a few years ago that still brings me out in a cold sweat. I was driving behind a large juggernaut type lorry when a car pulled out when the lorry was nearly on top of them. The quick thinking of the lorry driver in swerving to avoid her and sheer luck that there was nothing coming the other way saved the lives of the elderly driver (who appeared to me to be oblivious to what had happened) and her passenger. 😱 |
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"I witnessed a near miss a few years ago that still brings me out in a cold sweat. I was driving behind a large juggernaut type lorry when a car pulled out when the lorry was nearly on top of them. The quick thinking of the lorry driver in swerving to avoid her and sheer luck that there was nothing coming the other way saved the lives of the elderly driver (who appeared to me to be oblivious to what had happened) and her passenger. 😱"
They stick in your mind don't they? Can still remember the worst accident I saw when I was 18 but the rest have faded. 20k miles plus a year and you get used to seeing them happen, getting caught in the aftermath or wincing at near misses. It's startling the damage a truck travelling at 60mph or so can do -or a car come to that.
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"An hour ago on a 4 lane motorway in Belfast a car was travelling well above the speed limit in the far right lane and flashing his lights at other drivers.
Without warning and no indication he shot straight across the lanes and veered up a slip road.
That one movement brought 3 lanes of traffic to an immediate halt and I've no idea how there were no collisions. "
My point entirely. I mean that's not a mistake or a bit of bad driving where the forgot to signal. That's truly dangerous |
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Just to add a follow up. This morning on the journey to work, witnessed 2 crashes. Both twats taking chances and pulling out into traffic in front of others... One at a roundabout and one right outside a school... The woman was pulling out from the school. Hopefully only bruised egos and fucked up cars but ridiculous driving. |
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"Being a motorcyclist for over 50 years, my senses and alertness are extremely high when I'm on two wheels.
I ride defensively, and have to treat all drivers as idiots, although most are not. "
Same... I was on my cb500 many years ago , hubby on his fzr600 we were heading up to Essex, on the m3 and going around a lorry... he either didn't see me ( despite my hi vi's stuff) or didn't look but I was halfway up his trailer when he decided to get into the lane I was in.... I had nowhere to go but the outside so did the usual lifesaver check, for some reason I did a second one .. just as I did a BMW came flying past at 100+.... I dread to think what would have happened if it had clipped me!! |
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