There was a proposal for the installation of an average speed camera system on this road, the A149, but this was vetoed by the local council much against the wishes of Norfolk police.

www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/speed-cameras-on-a14...9

lucky escape for all .. could have been much worse. f course the Council has now decided to lower the speed limit, typical knee jerk action, bet they did not even find out the speed of the second car at time of impact, if it was driving at say 50 mph how would lowering the speed limit help?

The proposal to reduce the limit has been in progress for some time, just co-incidence they voted for it today.

Following a side on collision ( T Bone ) like this the Police Collision Investigator would be able to perform skid tests to determine actual collision speed of the Kia, that said having seen the various photographs of this I would state that the speed by the driver of the Kia was nowhere near the posted limit of 60 MPH. i would need to see the impact damage to the Kia to properly determine such

But,Thank God the injuries to all parties was minor as T Bones are very brutal by their nature even at much lower speed than is indicated by media who make mountains out of Molehills

The intrusion into the side door of the Land Rover Freelander is not major as I would have expected severe impact damage at 60 MPH, with both vehicles being sent far apart and substantial injuries as a result to all.

The fact that it was a side impact would be the causal factor in the Freelander going onto it's side at relatively low speed that is easy to make happen especially to a high riding vehicle All of the pictures depict the front screen having damage, this was made by the fire service cutting the screen out due to the clean cut lines not dislodged by impact as they are glued into position.and seldom dislodge even in high speed impacts.

The Police will no doubt conduct enquiries and make the position known after all the evidence has been examined NOT jump to hypothetical conclusions as other people do.

Reducing the speed from 60 to 50 would reduce the impact forces by a factor of 4 times less than at 60.

In 2002, I was driving to the Polo club on the Windsor great park estate, and got rather lost..

An elderly gentleman driving a twosome and carriage with a valet on the backboard gave me directions...

It was only when I saw the valet was holding back a smile i realised that it was HRH. naturally I grovelled.

I told them at the Polo club, and they said simply.. Well his directions were good were they not!

Get well soon sir!

An elderly gentleman driving a twosome and carriage with a valet on the backboard gave me directions...

Surely that would have been a postillion ? :-)

Only if having a rest from riding. More likely the coachman's assistant :-I

We've had discussions about older drivers on here before and whether or not they should face restrictions.

I'm against all the stuff like 'compulsory retests for the over 60s' or stopping over 70s from driving at all because generally older drivers are not a problem unless they're medically unfit. Drivers of any age can be medically unfit.

However, allowing a 97 year old to be driving on a public road is somehow a different ball game, regardless of whether this particular 97 year old did anything wrong or not.

Edited by Sofa Spud on 18/01/2019 at 15:52