dennis is moving to Bristol

Why do idiots always try to justify speeding by coming up with people driving dangerously at less than the speed limit? Just what do they think it proves other than their stupidity?

Hmm.. I have had a couple of senile old dears walk out in front of me while I was doing 40 mph. However I saw them and took avoiding action. Senile old dears don't usually move very fast so you have plenty of time to see them and do something about it. They aren't like the cyclists that shoot across the road from walkways and places like that.

That 99% of accidents are caused by stupid drivers or bad luck, not failure to keep exactly to arbitrary speed limits?

Not if its 15 feet in front of you. She was standing on te kerb IIRC and took three steps into the road .. the guy smoked his styres but he still hit her at maybe 12 mph

She did a cartwheel - I remember her knickers on display, and broke her neck. I remember the blood coming out of her nose and ears.

Bit strange for a 12 year old boy, really.

They are just as bad.

It does take a bit of practice to his the cyclists.

I've found running Sygic on my 'droid to be a great help. Not only does it go "beep" for speed cameras, it goes "beep" everytime I exceed the stated road speed by >10% which generally means I don't bother looking at the speedo constantly.

This has noticeably increased my being able to look at the road - a great improvement in the country where the limits change from anything between

No, 99% of accidents are caused because the driver was going too fast. Luck is not required.

So he saw a senile old dear standing on the kerb about to step off and still didn't slow down.

Hmm, I bet its hard to get a person to do a cartwheel from a 12 mph impact.

I just engage the speed limiter!

He didn't take any evasive action like turning that round thing in front of him? Or is this pre ABS so he braked too hard and lost control of the vehicle in a skid?

Not so sure having been run over, well hoisted right up onto the bonnet of a car and shoved off to the side by the windscreen in a low speed collision at traffic lights that had just changed.

Cite please...

No, she's old enough not to notice how fast I am driving...!

This is a real one..

Reminds me of te time we ran my late moter up to Yorkshire in the old XJS.. and as she had made us late rather fast.. "What speed are we doing she said?" and leaned across to see 'oh, only 50 miles an hour. It seems faster than that'

The dear old bat was reading the revcounter, thank heavens. :-)

What gear? In top that would make it about 150 mph which the old XJS couldn't do.

It might be they just speed up when the see the line dennis wannabes in the hope of getting a few ;-)

I really cant remember. Might have been 4th. Twas the 3.6 liter 5 speed manual.

For sure IIRC the old girl was stuck on 130mphh top speed. IIRC we were doing between 110 and 120..:-)

In message , "dennis@home" writes

Err .. bullshit boi

You usually define "going too fast" as exceeding the posted speed limit

Yep - Denise just buried himself - I was waiting for that.

This is dennis remember, definitions and constants can change at will to suite the argument of the moment.