Paul from SafeSpeed on BBC Breakfast today on Driving Offence Cameras
Earl Purple wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
Earl Purple wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
Bravo, well said, apart from a minor point.
How does travelling at a slow speed cause someone to crash?
Two ways:
1. If you drive slowly you will be causing more drivers to want to
overtake you. Overtaking is a dangerous manoeuvre. Even if it's on a
motorway which has 3 lanes and you are on the inside lane, you will
be causing other drivers approaching behind you to change lanes to
overtake you. Once again a potentially dangerous manoeuvre. Safer if
you were going faster thus causing fewer overtakes.
2. If you are driving slowly your journey will take longer. The
longer your journey, the more time you have to lose concentration.
Concentrating intensely can be enduring. And it's no use saying to
just take breaks, because as your journey will take longer, it's
likely there won't be enough time for breaks.
So two reasons why driving slower can be more dangerous.
Good answer to a different question. Nothing was said about
"dangerous".
Care to try again?
The more dangerous the driving, either yours or other reacting to you,
the more chances of a crash happening. Obvious, isn't it?
You drive at 25mph on NSL single carriageway, drivers behind get
frustrated, they overtake you, one of them misjudges, crash. Wouldn't
have happened if you'd driven at a sensible speed.
Nor was anything said about other vehicles crashing. Care to try once more?
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