There needs to be both. We had to drive because I’m disabled, and the number of people, adults and children, walking in the road wearing black or dark clothes was ridiculous.
I’m in the UK, and we’ve had horrible weather this week. It was dark, wet, and windy, and we passed dozens of families who were walking their kids out into the road without looking, dressed in the dark clothes I mentioned, and without a single light or reflective item between them.
This is without mentioning the dickheads who drive at 40 everywhere, or the moron who was driving with no lights.
Without meaning to sound like a miserable old man, there’s no common sense.
Vehicle speed is always measured in miles per hour in the UK. It might change at some point, but it’s not going to be for a while. We randomly use either metric or imperial for everything else though.
We seem to get a lot of people, at least in my little corner of the country, who drive at 40mph on the 50, 60, and 70mph roads, frustrating the drivers behind them, but then stick to 40mph through the 30 and even 20mph limits. They seem to be the same drivers who sit in either the middle or right hand lane when the law says to stay left unless you’re overtaking.
We’ve got more than our fair share of bad drivers, but everyone thinks that it doesn’t include them…
There needs to be both. We had to drive because I’m disabled, and the number of people, adults and children, walking in the road wearing black or dark clothes was ridiculous.
I’m in the UK, and we’ve had horrible weather this week. It was dark, wet, and windy, and we passed dozens of families who were walking their kids out into the road without looking, dressed in the dark clothes I mentioned, and without a single light or reflective item between them.
This is without mentioning the dickheads who drive at 40 everywhere, or the moron who was driving with no lights.
Without meaning to sound like a miserable old man, there’s no common sense.
Is this 40 mi or km per hour? The UK seems to arbitrarily flip either way. Both are far too fast for a residential street.
Vehicle speed is always measured in miles per hour in the UK. It might change at some point, but it’s not going to be for a while. We randomly use either metric or imperial for everything else though.
We seem to get a lot of people, at least in my little corner of the country, who drive at 40mph on the 50, 60, and 70mph roads, frustrating the drivers behind them, but then stick to 40mph through the 30 and even 20mph limits. They seem to be the same drivers who sit in either the middle or right hand lane when the law says to stay left unless you’re overtaking.
We’ve got more than our fair share of bad drivers, but everyone thinks that it doesn’t include them…