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!

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?

So not speeding then?

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.

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

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.

cruising long lane for orfords finest at 2am eh?

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.

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.

Or the driver losing control and driving onto the pavement?

Or if the car had been going 20mph then the child would not have been killed.

What is the difference in braking distance between 70 and 90 mph?

Depends what car you are driving surely? Doing it in an old car, it would be horrendous. Doing it in a modern car, with further uprated brakes, and its not going to be much different to a standard car. Again, the point is being missed. If everyone leaves enough space to the car in front, we could all do 140+mph safely. However, some idiots drive too close to be doing 40mph let alone 70mph. I appreciate the point you are making, and i'm not excusing poor driving, but to point the finger of blame at speed alone is simply ridiculous.



Again, if the driver is on the pavement, then its not speed killing is it? If you can't keep a car on the road at 30mph, then frankly, you shouldn't be driving. As with the 20mph thing, i have absolutley no problem whatsoever with limits like that being put in place outside schools and playgrounds, i'd drop them even further, but why they should be enforced outside of these hours is ridiculous.

You are just trying to create here.

I expect you are, because you seem to have the attitude that you are a great and safe driver, and can therefore drive safely at higher speeds than most other people.

The 80 year old granny probably knows she is a bad driver and therefore drives very slowly. Even if she does hit a pedestrian she is going so slowly they will probably not be killed.

I can't remember the exact stats but it's something like 80% chance of dying if hit at 40mph, 20% if hit at 20mph. Therefore the answer to your question is pretty obvious really, isn't it.