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86tt
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Re: Need Legal Advice

Tue, 14 June 2005 14:21

WiLo wrote on Tue, 14 June 2005 19:25

86tt wrote on Tue, 14 June 2005 08:01

speeding doesn't kill, collision does

so if your in an accident where the speed limit is 60 and one of the people is travelling at 80 the consequences arent going to be worse off?

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sorry man, but physics isn't as simple as that, it's not if you travelled 60km/h you won't get killed, but if you travelled 80km/h you'll get killed, this is not a number game, you can view it two different way, 1st. if you travelled avg 80km/h, you spend 33% (actual may be 20-30%) less time on the road, so lesser chance of an accident happening, and that's what cause most death, they're pure accidents, or if you were travelling 60km/h you may have got a frontal smash, or at 65km/h you may get t-boned, and if at 70km/h you may get clipped in the tail and if you were travelling at 80km/h you may have missed the accident all together, there's just way too many variables to consider other than just the numbers... and another things that contributes to accidents and toll rate is, education, driver attitude, driver training in emergency situations, driver observation and judgement, decision makings, drugs and alcohol and fatigue, isn't that way more important than wipe 10km/h off the speed or even wipe 30km/h off the speed? What's the danger of a 3 lane highway with no other traffic and travelling at 150km/h? A piano is going to drop from the sky and land in front of your car? What's the danger of driving 80km/h in a 60km/h posted speed where the flow of traffic is travelling 80km/h??

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Also don't bother justifying your speeding because it's 'not as bad as other crimes'. You can't show up to court for robbing an old lady and say "at least I didn't rape her" and if you did you'd be a complete idiot.

thu187: I think you are completely missing the point, I'm not saying you can continue to do dangerous things on the road, that's beyond the point, but the system should hand the responsibility back to the driver, to learn to make their own good judgement, read through all the previous post and think again. Don't put stupid words in my mouth.

Speeding isn't something that everybody should get emotional about just because the media saids so, so many other people gets abused or die of other horrible causes, which causes just as much pain and grief to their family and friends, but they're not getting the correct amount of attention?!?! The reason? Because it doesn't give the government any joy or profits to catch a true criminal, everyone's a tax payer and they should be living in a world which is as ideal as possible.

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Also don't use the excuse you're a youth. I am and alot of other people on this forum are too. Nobody put a gun to your head and made you plant your foot down.
I hope you be fully sick and speed on your way to 'maccaz bro' and write off a few cars in the process and spend the next couple of years paying it off. That'd teach you.

This is the point, back to the word "education", maybe you are too young to understand, everyone is brought up differently, a good example is, you were brought up with the government, telling you all the time, speed kills, every k is a killer, and you really believed them, but for other problem child/teenager, maybe their parents and guardian didn't pay them too much attention, and they were brought up in the wrong manner, their peers may be telling them, speeding is cool, I've driven 200km/h here and there and all those crap, or they were brought up in a violent city and thinks he will solve everything by his fist and they believed it... Just the same way you believed "speed kills" and you'll probably never will get over it too by the look of things, and who is to blame? The government is exploiting your emotions with the help of the media and you've got conned, badly!

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