Solution To The Speeding Problem

[joggerjayne]

All speeding offences should carry a mandatory minimum one year custodial sentence.

No discretion.

No slap on the wrist.

If you ignore the speed limit, one year in prison, and a three year driving ban when you are released.

[Baldric]

///There was a thread yesterday discussing the idea of cars (and motorbikes) being fitted with devices to automatically slow them down when entering speed restricted areas///

I thought ALL areas were Speed Restricted!

[joggerjayne]

Fringe ... well spotted ...

:0(

I suppose I would be a long term inmate.

In the movies, do they call them "old lags" or something ???

[joggerjayne]

Baldric ...

Not all areas are speed restricted. There are stretches of the A23/M23 where it's a deregulated free for all.

Although the unmarked Police cars that patrol that stretch just don't seem to have grasped the concept.

[ToraToraTora]

no, speeding is not a problem.
there are a myriad of other things that cause accidents.

[LazyGun]

@ jj

"Not all areas are speed restricted. There are stretches of the A23/M23 where it's a deregulated free for all"

Really? I will accept there are places where motorists treat the roads as a de-gulated free for all, especially stretches of motorway at certain times of the day in particular, but legally speaking that is untrue. We do have a maximum upper speed limit in the UK, do we not?

[ToraToraTora]

There is a road near me that the limit changes all along it, 30,40,50,40,30,40,30 etc. I don't want to go to jail for not quite getting down to 30 in time. Serioulsy JJ I know this is in response to the thread about speeding yesterday. That's just a kite flying exercise, even the unelected eejits in the EU can see the folly of having thousands of satellite guided vehicles on the road, won't happen.

[joggerjayne]

If I hadn't already given the Best Answer to Fred, I would have given it to Tora for using the word "myriad" ... which is just not used often enough.

[daftgrandad]

Totally agree Tora.
Especially people who use mobile phones whilst driving.
They are the b@stards who want locking up.

[McMouse]

So you need a life saving operation but all the appropriate surgeons are in the slammer.

[joggerjayne]

No, Lazy ... it's like the Autobahns in Germany.

You can drive at any speed you like as long as ...

1. You are in the right hand lane, and

2. You have the music on loud, and

3. The unmarked Sussex Constabulary cars don't see you.

You are allowed a double exemption if you have a soft top car, with the roof down, and you are singing along to the music.

The exemption ceases to apply if you are using your sunnies as an alice band, and they blow off your head into the footwell. If you then start rooting around to try and pick them up, you have to slow down to 70mph. Or do a forfeit.

[joggerjayne]

The forfeit usually involves driving as far as Gatwick with a lamp shade on your head.

[LazyGun]

@ jj Ahh, I see! :)

Obviously a completely new and revised section of the highway code that completely escaped my notice :) I am grateful you have informed me, and will now drive much differently in Sussex in the future, newly aware of the revised rules of the road ;)

[belrec]

I got caught doing 35 in a 30 zone, and went on the speed awareness course.

The thing that gets you is that 1mph over the speed limit CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Part of the course was this:

Assuming that at 30mph you would stop just in time not to hit someone crossing the road, then at 35 mph you would still be going at 11mph when you hit the same spot.

So even 1mph would mean that instead of stopping you would hit someone.

That is what makes me stick to the speed limit, not the worry that I will be caught again.

However, I do feel that prison is slightly over the top. Sorry JJ :-)

[Baldric]

///Not all areas are speed restricted. There are stretches of the A23/M23 where it's a deregulated free for all.///

National speed limit JJ?
https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits

[joggerjayne]

Remember to keep a lamp shade in the car, Lazy!

If you fail to wear your lamp shade, the penalty is spending two hours in Burgess Hill.

[Baldric]

Meant to add
//stretches of the A23/M23 where it's a deregulated free for all.///

if you really believe that, maybe you should be looking at a retest, you are obviously out of touch!
;-)

[joggerjayne]

Baldric ...

National speed limit as amended by the local by-laws (see above).

I've just remembered that if your sunnies blow off your head so that all your hair starts flapping in your face, then the by-laws require that you either ....

a. Slow down to 60mph, or

b. Drive with one hand, and use the other to hold your hair off your face, or

c. Steer with one knee while you get your hair into a scrunchie.

[Baldric]

Give us a link then JJ, please,
I would be interested to read that!