Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:27 pm  

runningman29 wrote:

Excuse me if you'd scroll up and just look what statement he put in reply you'd hopefully come to your senses and see that what the Fresh Prince said did not warrant a sarcastic reply from All New Chester Wire which is why i posted my opinion not that it's any of your business.

It wasn't a sarcastic reply. If I'd had a child killed in an RTA, I''d have found his statement that the child was somehow responsible offensive. Speed kills!

Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:21 pm  

Guess how they caught Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper ?


Do you mean Peter Sutcliffe the serial killer from Yorkshire that was caught urinating down an alley (standing outside his car at the time) in a red light area?

Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:30 pm  

Wilber wrote:

Guess how they caught Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper ?


Do you mean Peter Sutcliffe the serial killer from Yorkshire that was caught urinating down an alley (standing outside his car at the time) in a red light area?

By Traffic police who actually saw that he was driving a stolen car with a prostitute (Olivia Reivers) in the passenger seat of the car

Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:38 pm  

So not speeding then?

Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:40 pm  

Fresh Prince of Chesh-air wrote:

What is offensive about it? You suggesting that every child that has been hit by a car, the driver was speeding?

How is he suggesting that?!

You on the other hand are suggesting that most people hit by cars have 50% of the blame. Your an idiot and your statement with absolutly no proof or evidence makes my blood boil, add to that, that my only experience of someone hit by a car, is I offered a shoulder when a friend of mine had a relative knocked down and killed. I didn't even know the girl! God knows how someone who actually knows someone who has been injured/killed feels!!

Next time try THINKING before you make such a statement. If speed wasn't much of a factor in deaths on the road, then why on earth would all the sickening adverts be on television raising awareness, and if it is such a 'cash cow' then why would they even bother putting the adverts on? Why not just let people speed and then ticket them.

Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:52 pm  

Wilber wrote:

So not speeding then?

Just a dig at the people who don't see the value of Traffic police

Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:57 pm  

I'm all for child safety having two of my own, but I do feel they are taking the michael at the moment. Warrington is becoming horrendous to drive through at any time of the day now. There just seems to be no planning at all and Warrington has some of the worst traffic lights I've ever seen. Long Lane is a prime example, driving from Hilden Road to say PC World would probably take 15 minutes once you've sat at those never changing lights for 5 minutes watching no cars go anywhere then crawled along Long Lane at sub 20 mph to join the queue to the lights onto Winwick Road which are horrific. When the Long Lane traffic finally goes to green the lights on the roundabout then go to red meaning 2 cars max can get through.

20mph on Long Lane is fine at school time and when kids are out vandalising cars and getting trollied, but when you drive down there at 2am and the plank in front of you is doing 19 mph it just becomes a tad annoying.

Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:57 am  

Saddened! wrote:

when you drive down there at 2am and the plank in front of you is doing 19 mph it just becomes a tad annoying.

cruising long lane for orfords finest at 2am eh?

Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:31 am  

Wire Medic wrote:

Is it more serious to not pay tax when someone's child is killed by someone breaking the speed limit?

Technically speeding didn't kill the child, the child running out into the road killed him. Educate children better about road safety. Contraversial viewpoint, i understand, but i'm sick of the owness being put on the driver.

Re: Watch out, watch out, there's a copper about : Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:38 am  

The All New Chester Wire wrote:

It wasn't a sarcastic reply. If I'd had a child killed in an RTA, I''d have found his statement that the child was somehow responsible offensive. Speed kills!

No it doesn't. I was doing 90mph on the motorway the other day, and nearly all my driving life have done so. Haven't killed a single person. Inappropriate speed kills. If i was doing 90mph down Long Lane, now that would be dangerous. This is the part that annoys me about the "speeding tax" that seems to be implied on drivers. I drive a little quicker than maybe i should. Who's more dangerous? Myself, or the 80yr old granny with the reaction times of an oil tanker? The way to stop poor driving is regular retests. If you can't pass regular standard checks, you can't drive. Driving is a privelidge, not a neccessity.