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Driver faces ban for lack of speeding.

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    #92
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    If she was that terrified of driving on motorways then what on earth was she doing on the M32. There would have been a million other roads for her to take to get where she wanted to be without going on the motorway. It didn't say which direction she was going in but from Fishponds there are only two places you can get to along the M32, either the centre of Bristol and there are many better alternative routes depending on the time of day or the M4 and I really hope that she wasn't going in that direction.

    The M32 would actually be a relatively good one for her to practice motorway driving on though as it's only two lanes and does not give her the chance to get lost if she goes in the direction of Bristol on it. I've been stuck on it several times doing an average speed of 0.5mph for a couple of hours before though so would tend to avoid if at all possible.


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    #93
    AntiVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,395 ✭✭✭AntiVirus


    LuckyStar wrote: »
    I was turning into a shop that was off-route and made the wrong turn, I had not programmed this detour into the sat nav as I was driving at the time.

    Most Sat Nav's will re-calculate the correct route to your destination no matter how many wrong (detours) turns you make or they'll tell you to turn around. What Sat Nav do you have?


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    #94
    alias no.9
    Registered Users Posts: 6,310 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    It's hard not to have sympathy for the woman and her psychological condition but she is certainly not a competant driver. As for lemmings argument, 10mph on a motorway is so slow that it approximates a parked car on the motorway. Would you claim it was safe to park on the motorway and that when the inevitable instant tailback and pile up occurs, that it was all the other drivers at fault? The slow speed in this case was clearly dangerous driving and so is driving at unnecessarily slow speeds on open roads that are not motorways. Obstructing traffic flow is dangerous.


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    #95
    LuckyStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭LuckyStar


    AntiVirus wrote: »
    Most Sat Nav's will re-calculate the correct route to your destination no matter how many wrong (detours) turns you make or they'll tell you to turn around. What Sat Nav do you have?

    it did and i got home fine


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    #96
    unklerosco
    Registered Users Posts: 7,828 ✭✭✭unklerosco


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7171154.stm

    Dont know if it was posted already.... Brilliant :p:p


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    #97
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    She should be made sit driving lessons and take her test again.

    Good to see the cops acting on slow drivers.


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    #98
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055206868


    :)


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    #99
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,401 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Merged your thread into the old one, unklerosco


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    #100
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,991 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Some gob****e brought a tractor towing a heavy piece of farm machinery onto the M7 last Wednesday after apparently deciding that the R445 wasn't good enough for him. Lots of heavy braking and nice big tailback as two lanes of traffic were forced to merge into one. At least in his case it was easy to spot him a mile off.


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