A sobering site...just enter your postcode

[Parisien]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15975720


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[dickygrace]

Sobering but terrifying too.

 

[NickP]

Very interesting, its good that they have gathered this data but I suspect that if you did a simular thing with people who died from paracetamol overdose between the same dates you would get a similar set of results.

 

[Parisien]

Nick, you are not far wrong.....but don't they sell them now with the antidote already incorporated into each tablet, so if you overdose you won't ruin your liver?


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[BennyD]

However, when you think how many miles have been driven on those same roads over the same period, the odds are still in favour of us getting where we are going to in one piece.

 

[Andyk]

Interesting....Not that many around my way.....Still too many though...

 

[marcos]

When you dig a bit deeper into the data, seems to be a good few who died in conditions like heavy snow in August. There are massive inacuracies on there, which kind of puts the whole thing in doubt. A guy on SELOC quoted a double death on there which was 2 people who jumped off a motorway bridge in a suicide pact. Also a lot of over-80s keeling over in their cars as natural causes.

Anti-speeding propaganda as always

 

[marcos]

From a guy in Nottingham who entered his postcode:

3 since 1999 on country roads

1 - 75 year old who stepped out into the road infront of a car
1 - 75 year old cyclist riding late at night with no lights in middle of the road hit by car
1 - 85 year old driver on wrong side of the road hit by another car.

Hardly startling apart from the age thing

 

[Parisien]

So...from the data........inaccurate data it seems......all over 60s should be banned from being within 100 metres of a road..........where does that leave poor Urbie??!!





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[Parisien]

Never mind that...you saw the S Times article by the transport minister( dictator/facist), that from 2050.....petrol driven cars will be consigned to history.....all electric.......from then on......must stock up on batteries.....



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[NickP]

Never mind that...you saw the S Times article by the transport minister( dictator/facist), that from 2050.....petrol driven cars will be consigned to history.....all electric.......from then on......must stock up on batteries.....



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Most of us will be consigned to electric wheelchairs by 2050 so I guess he is right.

 

[Parisien]

Most of us will be consigned to electric wheelchairs by 2050 so I guess he is right.

.....as long as its says Maserati on the back of them not so bad.....


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[dem maser]

ill be 70 by then.....dont matter......

 

[midlifecrisis]

Well my electric wheel chair with have 8 motors on it in a Vee configuation!

 

[dem maser]

a V8 chair?? top gear had a V8 mixer.......

i do like the table made up of the porsche engine......

 

[lozcb]

Most of us will be consigned to electric wheelchairs by 2050 so I guess he is right.

Load of old Bollox , they were saying when i was at school (50 years ago ) by year 2000 we would all be flying around in spaceships and jetpacks , everyone would have problems of what to do with their leeisure time , because everything would be done by robots ...........complete tosh , most powerfull companies in the world are the oil companies they are not going to let go bread and butter that easily



regards loz

 

[midlifecrisis]

Speak you mind Loz...LOL...
I take it your jetpack isn't working this week...

 

[lozcb]

Speak you mind Loz...LOL...
I take it your jetpack isn't working this week...

Does it show im on one this week , hahaha , gotta gee em up , xmas round the corner and everyones walking round with an upside down crescent stuck to their boatraces, I reckon doctors ought to prescribe massers on the NHS , brilliant cure for depression i should imagine



regards loz

 

[maserati]

No doubt there will be some inconsistencies buried within the stats. The good news though is that the numbers of people dying on the roads has reduced massively over the years. There are many reasons for this but a key factor is the improvement in car safety technology.

Paul

 

[lozcb]

No doubt there will be some inconsistencies buried within the stats. The good news though is that the numbers of people dying on the roads has reduced massively over the years. There are many reasons for this but a key factor is the improvement in car safety technology.

Paul

I thought it was the fact that my driving has got better over the years



regards loz