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| Originally Posted by dry suit diver and they are right, if you cannot stop in time you are going too fast.
at 40mph 80% of accidents are a seriuos injury/fatality
at 30 mph this reduces to about 50%
at 20mph 80% of accidents are minor injury. |
Love to know where these statistics come from. Maybe they are right but a lot of what gets trotted out by the anti-motoring brigade is harvested specifically to prove whatever point they wish to prove. Tabloid science if you like.
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think if it was your child and you see it in a different light.
Me I was hit by a car when i was 9
March 1982 at 4.50 pm on a tuesday evening, when I looked there was no car coming, and the range of vision was well over 100metres. I survived with no major injuries, the police didnt have sophisticated equipment to work out the drivers speed so did a test on a similar car to see how fast he was going, they got to 48mph over the same distance assuming the driver was travelling at 30 in the run up to where you stop being able to see the road.
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I guess I would have been about 7 or 8 when I was hit by a car. Ironically I was pushing my bike across the road at the time. I was in a world of my own and ran across the road on a bend, with a very cursory look to the left. Squeel of brakes, a distinct sense of 'Oh golly gosh' (it was a nice neighbourhood), a whump and I was lieing on the floor under a Triumph Spitfire.
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so yes if you cant stop you are going too fast.
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Nope. I don't know how fast he was going. Very fast from where I was standing but probably within the limit. I have since driven down the same road and can see that the driver had no chance.
Obviously I was someone's child. Once I was out of hospital they gave me a right telling off. Followed by another from the local Policeman. And another from my school teachers. Of course it would not happen today because I would be too fat to want to go outside, or suffering an eating disorder worrying about my self image. With the hoardes of rapists, kidnappers, peadophiles, germs, dirt, cars, no responsible parent would let their 8 year old wander the streets alone at 7pm on a Summers evening these days
