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What a little cutie.

What was it like to drive, Triple?

http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/nhtsa-2015-traffic-deaths-up-07012016 Our seems to have plateaued in recent years. What's to be done? Does anything need to be done? What's an acceptable level of fatalities for the freedom driving provides? Good question but thinking about the US inc...

http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/nhtsa-2015-traffic-deaths-up-07012016

Our seems to have plateaued in recent years.

What's to be done?

Mine was a 1966 white (and brown :shock: ) Beetle not dissimilar to this... http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CC-29-036-800.jpg It lasted a year (next MOT was big failure and not worth keeping :oops: ). I followed it up with 3 more Beetles of decreasing age and increasing 'so...

How are you getting on Debbie with your quest to start advanced training?

The narrowing has several effects I can think of - even without a priority crossing: ⋅  shortens the length and therefore time the pedestrian is in the road ⋅ makes them more visible while they are waiting ⋅ the narrowing naturally makes drivers pay attention and possib...

...perhaps by either simply putting a zebra down and signs up to highlight the presence of the crossing... I don't believe zebra crossings are allowed on 70 or even 60mph roads. It is indeed a crazy layout but at least the view for a cyclist waiting to cross doesn't look too bad and since they don'...

My own observations of peoples eyesight which in many cases is poor and rarely tested. We did, many years, ago a completely unprofessional test of pupils at a driving school and found many of them had poor eyesight; legal (just) for the driving test but poor. OK but all I can say is, it's not my ex...

At very least by making people have proper eye tests before being given a licence; to be repeated at regular intervals whilst they hold the licence. I and a few of my veteran colleagues are firmly convinced that this single measure could help a lot. Why? If you mean my last sentence it is because w...

sussex2 wrote:At very least by making people have proper eye tests before being given a licence; to be repeated at regular intervals whilst they hold the licence.
I and a few of my veteran colleagues are firmly convinced that this single measure could help a lot.

Why?