A77 Humans vs animals

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Thu 26 Oct 2006 21:46
A77 Humans vs animals - BobbyG
www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5058602.html

Above is an excerpt from paper today. The full story is that tragically last weekend , a traffic policeman was killed on this stretch of road whilst travelling to a call. He was driving an unmarked Mercedes but had blue lights etc on.
Witness statements stated that he crashed into a car that was turning across the carriageway from a side road.

It transpires that proposed road upgrades involving new junctions and bridges have been under discussion for the last 5 years but were put on hold pending "environmental research" principally, the effect this would have on the local badger population.!!!

So the authorities are now going to impose a 50mph limit on the stretch.

For any of you that may have travelled this road, it is a 60 / 70mph unlit dual carriageway, but when it becomes a 3 lane motorway as it approached Glasgow, you've guessed it, it becomes a 50 mph limit!!

Some decisions just don't make sense!
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Thu 26 Oct 2006 21:52
A77 Humans vs animals - BazzaBear {P}
So the authorities are now going to impose a 50mph limit
on the stretch.


That makes sense, because it'll make people on blue light runs drive much slower. Eh???
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Thu 26 Oct 2006 23:15
A77 Humans vs animals - BobbyG
Bazza I deleiberately wasn't "going down that road" as no reports have stated that the police car was speeding . . . .
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Thu 26 Oct 2006 23:18
A77 Humans vs animals - BazzaBear {P}
Doesn't make any difference if he was on not. If they're using that crash as justification for lowering the speed limit, when for him the speed limit was 'advisory' it's just nonsensical.
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Thu 26 Oct 2006 23:24
A77 Humans vs animals - Westpig
well it would have been wouldn't it on a blue light run and perfectly legally.......... something for which the 50mph limit won't make the slightest bit of difference

but hey.... the authorities have 'done something' haven't they
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Fri 27 Oct 2006 07:42
A77 Humans vs animals - cheddar
Daft!
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Fri 27 Oct 2006 10:57
A77 Humans vs animals - daveyjp
Similar story in our local rag last week. Panda car attending an incident hit a learner at a set of lights and the Panda car flipped over. Resident demands for reduced limit (it's a 40 zone), speed cameras, road narrowing everything short of machine gun outposts! My point was exactly as this case. How would reducing the limit slow down a police car going to a shout?
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