Why Don't Drivers Slow Down?

BERNADETTE

BERNADETTE

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Had to go to Liverpool yesterday to pick my grandson up from hospital and the way some people were driving on the motorway was disgraceful. It was raining quite hard and so there was loads of spray but some drivers especially in lorries and buses were speeding along like it was fine. Do they not give any thought to other road users when they choose to drive so dangerously? :mad: :mad:
 
Posted via Mobile Device no they dont bernie. Its raining at the minute and looking out thro my window cars havent slowed down either
 
why is it when its fine the cars actually slow down going through rising bridge .. but when its pouring down they race through ...
 
BERNADETTE said:
It was raining quite hard and so there was loads of spray but some drivers especially in lorries and buses were speeding along like it was fine.
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I thought most lorries were speed limited so they can't speed along.

How fast were you driving and what time of day were you on the motorway?
 
Neil said:
I thought most lorries were speed limited so they can't speed along.
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this is true but some are limited to different speeds , this is why you get some moron in a lorry limited to 70mph taking half an hour to overtake anoither lorry limited to 69mph blocking two lanes of teh motorway or both on a dual carridgeway

or they take out the fuse in the fuse box that restricts them , some even disable the tacho graph so their misbehaviour dosnt get recorded but i bekieve its harder for them to do now but still not impossible
 
Neil said:
I thought most lorries were speed limited so they can't speed along.

How fast were you driving and what time of day were you on the motorway?
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I would say Vicky was doing between fifty and sixty, given the conditions that was sensible IMHO. Lorries were overtaking us and even if they are allowed to do up to seventy that is to fast in bad conditions.

It was between seven and eight last night.
 
BERNADETTE said:
I would say Vicky was doing between fifty and sixty, given the conditions that was sensible IMHO. Lorries were overtaking us and even if they are allowed to do up to seventy that is to fast in bad conditions.

It was between seven and eight last night.
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I am not surprised you had lorries passing you if you were doing 50mph at times. The lorries can do 60mph. The spray looks different when you are say high up in a lorry than what you see in a car. Don't forget these are professional drivers that know what they are doing.
 
Neil said:
I am not surprised you had lorries passing you if you were doing 50mph at times. The lorries can do 60mph. The spray looks different when you are say high up in a lorry than what you see in a car. Don't forget these are professional drivers that know what they are doing.
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Whilst I appreciate what you are saying it isn't very professional to cary on driving at sixty in adverse conditions just because lorries can. The more professional approach would be to consider the danger to other motorists, it would be dangerous slamming the brakes on at sixty surely? Problem is some drivers are just inconsiderate to other peoples safety:(
 
BERNADETTE said:
Whilst I appreciate what you are saying it isn't very professional to cary on driving at sixty in adverse conditions just because lorries can. The more professional approach would be to consider the danger to other motorists, it would be dangerous slamming the brakes on at sixty surely? Problem is some drivers are just inconsiderate to other peoples safety:(
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I doubt the conditions were classed as adverse, just raining with the usual spray you get when it does rain. It probably looked bad to you if you are not used to driving in those conditions. If your driver was concerned about the weather then she/he did the right thing and slowed down. IMHO you have to drive to your own abilities and hope that everyone else is driving to theirs.
 
Any HGV/LGV which was registered after 1988 and over 12 ton has to be calibrated to 90kph/56mph, IIRC 7.5t to 12t are calibrated to 60mph.
Just going on what has been said earlier, thing DO look a lot different in a wagon, you can see whats happening as they spray doesn't usually get so far up, I'm not saying its safe, especially when there is standing water on the road, you got to remember the wagons nowadays have got very good ABS systems on them that do work well, not like a few year back if you hit the brakes the trailer would have a mind of its own.
 
I've got a Canadian doing work experience in the studio at the moment - she loves this country and its people, her only complaint is that we drive like we "want to die".

She's also amazed by pedestrians, who can't be a*sed to walk 20 feet to a pedestrian crossing and instead play frogger* with their own lives and whoever is in the pram in front of them.

* She's way too young to remember frogger - it's the best way of describing what she meant...
 
It was nice and wet on the M65/6/58 this morning at 5am. Even I slowed down a little today. Well I did not want to spill my coffee.
 
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