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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.
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.
so yes if you cant stop you are going too fast. |
I'm sorry, but that is a complete load of oblocks! I've been out to plenty of pedestrian v car RTA's where the pedestrian has done something completely unpredictable, and children, together with o.a.p's are probably the worst offenders here. If we drove at a speed that allowed us to brake from ANY potential hazard, then we would never exceed 5mph if there were people on the pavement anywhere near us.
Run into the rear of another vehicle, then yes, I would agree with you.
The original 'Roadcraft' (not the sanitised latest version) says; 'you should always be able to stop in the distance you can see to be clear'. While a police trained driver should always allow for hazards (a hazard is defined as anything that contains an element of actual or potential danger) by moderating their speed, that does NOT mean they can always avoid the actions of idiots! And I reckon on the whole that police trained drivers are trained to a higher standard than the majority (that is not to say that they always drive to that standard).
At 48 MPH, a car will cover 100 yards in just over 4 seconds (at 30MPH it will take 6.8 seconds), I reckon you would have been able to walk at least 5 yards in that time, plenty long enough to cross a lane of a road, in fact longer as you say the clear distance was greater than 100 yds.