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vegetable
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| go down to a dual carraigway at 4am on a Sunday morning. |
Wrong, all time trials on dual carriageways now start at 1:30am on a sunday morning. |
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Hans Datdodishes
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Robabank
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8483446.stm |
Yes - it takes an act of severe criminal negligence to have an accident on a dual carriageway. And that can and does happen on any road. |
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John McC
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Quite. If a driver is that bad a paying attention, that sort of accident can happen anywhere.
Indeed, this, thankfully, is the only fatality on the F1 in living memory as far as I'm aware, although one is, of course, too many.
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Hans Datdodishes
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Quite. If a driver is that bad a paying attention, that sort of accident can happen anywhere.
Indeed, this, thankfully, is the only fatality on the F1 in living memory as far as I'm aware, although one is, of course, too many. |
Baz Clarke also sadly killed last year on the A1 near here, albeit not in competition.
Highways Agency have removed all traffic islands between Grafham Water turning and Yorkshire - it no longer feels like an A road but instead more like what it is, a motorway.
No difference in my view between a rider charging up to do a fast time and one riding in artificially high traffic flows to do a fast time - both are worthless
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John McC
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There are no artificially high traffic flows on the A1 over the F1 stretch at the times it is used.
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mho
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I'd like to know how a driver facing a maximum 14 year sentence is allowed out on bail when they have been convicted. Its not a good sign in my view. |
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