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Old 29-04-2005, 06:53 AM   #11
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Speed limits in this country, and every country in the world are governed by what is known as the "75th percentile rule" which takes 100 cars and sends them up a given stretch of road, dismisses the fastest 15-20 for being ratbags, dismisses the slowest 5-10 and comes up with an average that everybody naturally wants to drive at. That is how speed limits originated. In the case of every accident, the police, or the news reporter will blame the accident on excessive speed, even though the driver was only doing his 60, in the said 60 zone, but because the police think that the day he was driving, was a little overcast, and the sun was past noon, he really should have been driving at 40, so excessive speed was the factor occasioning death.
Well, of course speed was the cause of his death, due to hitting a pole @60kph, but if he was doing 60 in a 100 zone and hit a pole @60, the same would result, and would then it be excessive speed??
If you were watching the news, and the reporter told you that a man had just died skydiving, because he forgot to put on his parachute, would you be suprised????
I think not, so what is the difference with hitting the pole @60. Its not excessive speed that killed him.....

On the matter of the cop in the XR6, my gripe is WHY THE F##K DO THEY NEED TO TRY AND RAISE MORE REVENUE OFF US BY TRYING TO GET SOMEONE IN A POWERFUL CAR TO SPEED??????
They have cameras everywhere, mobile cars patrolling our roads, and now bait cars, trying to make you get up it.
We all are guilty of booting a car to get in front of another in traffic, so as to get our lane, or whatever, what happens if that car you pass is ol XR6 Turbo copper mate........thanks very much, that will be 3 points and a weeks wages thankyou!!!

Its just not bloody fair.
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