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Discussion of all aspects of non-professional driving
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Is this you Doug?
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[link] Man with sexual fetish for slurry jailed A man with a sexual fetish for slurry has been jailed after breaching a restraining order banning him from a farm Published: 11:26AM GMT 27 Nov 2009 David Truscott, 40, broke into a farm, covered himself in the waste... more »
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Newsline (tonight on tv) BBC 1 @ 6.30pm
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Quote from the report: "Our series on road safety continues, when we focus on the most common single cause of death and serious injuries on our roads - speed". Bod
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Motorists above the law
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Why do police not to anything about these lethal motorists? Yet again proof that motorists get special consideration unlike cyclists. BBC website recently:- "Recent RAC Foundation research showed reaction times slowed by 35% when 17 to 24-year-olds drove while reading and writing text messages. And its research last year showed that texting while driving impairs... more »
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Scary M8
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This chap makes driving on the M8 sound like it's some sort of Mad Max theme park: [link] Any time I've been on the bloody thing you're lucky to get above 30mph.
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Real problems
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In the Standard yesterday:- "Transport for London research suggests that if no driver used a mobile phone 1,200 fewer people would be injured in London each year, including 160 fewer people killed or seriously injured, yet the government and the police are happy to turn a blind eye to epidemic levels of mobile phone use by reckless drivers."... more »
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And what would you have done differently?
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"But instead of reporting the accident, panicking Stubbs is believed to have pulled over onto a layby, pulled out the wedged, mangled bike from his lorry and thrown it into some undergrowth on the Ossett Bypass along with Mr Spink's passport, other documents and two panniers which the cyclist had been carrying...."... more »
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