Country lanes - no curbs

Ah. A year or so ago I met a fuel anker on such a road and was treavveling too fast to stop, But the trusty 4WD scraped past at 45 degrees with two wheels up the bank.

Round here we have green central lines...

I couldnt even get up my drove without one in wet weather or snow

emselves.

Same thing with us.Our local roads are like the surface of the moon.

Removing the centre line is only proven to reduce speeds, by around

also useful at night to show where the road is going - especially for drivers with older cars/eyes :(

Doesn't work.

I tried pasting Richard Jones's reference (without editing) into Google Maps, and got here:

I saw a study which seemed to indicate a grass strip up the centre of the road reduced speed most, whether this only applied to single track roads I don't know.

AJH

Quite right. I would like a law to stop land owners having trees etc within a couple of feet or a roads edge.

Interesting that one road in our village no longer has a centre white line except where it goes under a railway bridge.

I drove down the road at the coordinates above, today. Street-viewing it doesn't do it justice. There are places where the banks are 30 feet high, with vertical chalk cliffs.

Being most 4X4's are quite tall, with the two n/s wheels up a bank it would be setting the vehicle at 45 degree angle *towards* the tanker (by a fair percentage of the height of the vehicle).

The only way that could have happened and it helping was if it was a lower car based 4X4?

Cheers, T i m

I regularly that my Tank for a drive up our single track lane as a traffic calming measure, amazing how useless some SUV type people are at reversing

Yes it does.

So why are we needing kerbs here anyway? Kerbs are to keep cars away from pedestrians, and I can't see any.

Nice. ;-) [1]

This (driving a 'tank') is often used by folk as a way of 'protecting them and their family' but they are either unaware ... or are and simply don't care that the only way that will work is if they crash into something smaller, putting other peoples families at greater risk. ;-(

Of course this game only ends when we are all driving tanks. ;-(

Cheers, T i m

You don't have to believe everything he says. I do however think he is a nutter for driving beyond his abilities.