Advance/****** levers on the steering wheel please
Yes, I'm A Sad Git
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The council should just send a CEO round there - slap tickets on all of them. Keep doing it, day after day, school after school, until they get the message.
The teachers could assist - take video footage, and submit it.
It's not just them.
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Mine also has a switch. I can select sidelights, headlights, one-sided parking lights, or automatic.So will mine, I have a switch that even an old git like me can manage
What I can't select is 'off'.
I can see where you are coming from, certainly for a vehicle used on a regular basis, but my greatest driving experiences have been with vehicles I owned that were built back in the 1940's .. note the emphasis on the D word
In my day we walked there, in all weathers including winters the likes of which are never experienced in the UK these days.They need to make the switch to EVs, really...
Indeed. Of course, in your day, quite a lot more kids got run over as well...
I wouldn't say a lot more, traffic was much lighter back then - maybe due to fewer vehicles on the school run
My primary school, which is still there, a really grand building - we had a policeman seeing everyone across the main road, in front of the school. The rest of the roads, on my route I had to cross, were just minor ones.
I wouldn't say a lot more, traffic was much lighter back then - maybe due to fewer vehicles on the school run
My primary school, which is still there, a really grand building - we had a policeman seeing everyone across the main road, in front of the school. The rest of the roads, on my route I had to cross, were just minor ones.
Down to a lot of reasons, really. More pedestrian-friendly cars, better public awareness of the hazards, less drink-driving, better maintained cars with better brakes and tyres, better medical techniques and equipment... And, of course, the fact that fewer children are walking to school.
Here are the figures since 1975. Scroll down for child pedestrian figures, but despite the increase in traffic, they've fallen pretty steadily.
Child Traffic Fatalities By Year: 1975 - 2019 Statistics
These tables and graphs are based on information from IIHS and data from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
seriousaccidents.com
Possibly, but the ones that didn't become road casualty statistics were a lot fitter & leaner
Possibly, but the ones that didn't become road casualty statistics were a lot fitter & leaner
Leaner, yes. Fitter, maybe. Healthier? Notsomuch. Our 1960s diet was largely saturated fats (animal fats at that). Those that didn't get run over, grew up to make us a strong contender for the heart disease capital of Western Europe!
Not many snowflakes though, unlike today
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