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Beatles

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The only safe vehicle has no doors.

… or a nut holding the steering wheel …

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1) Caring
2) Trusting ( Perhaps too much at times)
3) Loving
4)Trustworthy
5) Good Friend

What a guy …. smoke him a kipper, he’ll be back for Breakfast ….

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If road accidents happen at lower speed the consequences are normally less serious. You can’t equate a car park bump to high-speed loss of control on a bend.

What I was getting at though …. is that there are more low speed accidents and shunts occur than high speed ones. High speed ones are obviously more destructive but are in the minority in the scheme of things. On the railways, we have locos drop on the floor, wagons rolling foul of other roads in yards, locos skidding on wet rails, coal scatter onto cars at level crossings, couplings break …… etc …. all low speed and none of it sells papers. It’s all about sensationalism … if no one dies, it doesn’t seem to count.
:!:

[MzB]

The most common type of accidents are maneuvering and parking type accidents along with low speed shunts like hitting the car in front at junctions when you thought he/she had gone, etc. All are low speed and many don’t get reported. High speed accidents are in the minority and a lot of those involve TWOC, drink/drugs and tiredness. Driving at too high a speed for the conditions is a different thing altogether to breaking the speed limit. Driving at 40mph on a 60mph road, in certain conditions you could be driving dangerously. A friend in the Police confirms all this, but a campaign warning about slow driving would send out the wrong message. As a Train Driver for over 30 years, we were taught “Be able to stop in the distance I can see to be clear”. Some car drivers drive blind.
And what about wazzocks cruising the middle lane on Motorways?

[-(

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Apart from driving dangerously and carelessly, more accidents are caused by low speed being the factor as the driver is less alert. This has been proved but of course, they can’t can’t drain as much money from the motorist as they can from speeding.
I travel in Germany regularly, where motorways are unrestricted …. far less accidents there than here.

:x

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Coming out of the dentist with a six month reprieve.

:-#

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Ricky Tomlinson

:D

Would you call nuclear submarines …. fission ships ?

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The answer, my friend …. is blowin’ in the wind ….

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Well, Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote “The Hokey Cokey” died (age 83) almost 13 years ago and they still haven’t buried him. They put his left leg in, and they’ve been having trouble ever since.

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