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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. |
Sorry, but I disagree with this. So if I am driving at 20mph and a kid runs out infront of the car having not bothering to look, it's my fault?
Fair enough if I am doing 40 in a 30 limit - I would be at fault and would deserve what's coming to me. But saying the driver is driving too fast in all eventualities is simply riduculous.
And yes, I have been knocked over by a car (I was on a bike at the time though). I was cycling without lights on my bike - my fault.
I have also seen a child knocked over outside my house. The car had only just started moving and the girl ran out between 2 cars, 3 feet infront of the moving car and was hit. Her fault. Certainly not the drivers.