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Always travel at a safe, legal speed

October 20, 2022 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

UK ROAD SAFETY AND BREAKDOWN organisation GEM Motoring Assist is encouraging drivers to choose safe, legal speeds for all their road journeys. Driving above the speed limit, or, more importantly, at speeds that are inappropriate

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Are our roadworks speed limits too low?

August 5, 2020 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY held in the UK that most motorists think roadworks speed limits are too low should have a resounding response here in Australia (but they won’t!) In a situation Australian drivers

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Police ignoring guidelines for speed cameras

July 30, 2019 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Need to know

AS WITH ANY piece of equipment, there are guidelines on how radar and speed cameras should be used. However, these guidelines are being ignored, and motorists are being unfairly (and possibly illegally) penalised as a

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Danish study shows increased speed limits can actually reduce the road toll.

March 4, 2019 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Need to know

A TWO-YEAR EXPERIMENT by the Danish Road Directorate shows accidents fell on single-carriageway rural roads and motorways where the speed limit was raised. When the speed limit on some stretches of two-way rural roads was

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How soon after a speed sign must you comply?

December 31, 2018 murrellp@bigpond.com Need to know

NOTHING IS MORE ANNOYING, according to some correspondence we have received, than being pinged for speeding soon after passing a change of speed limit sing. Well, the bad news is that you are expected to

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A stupid road rule causes a major crash.

December 12, 2018 murrellp@bigpond.com Need to know

WHEN A NEW ROAD RULE setting a speed limit of 25km/h when passing any emergency vehicle with flashing red and blue lights was introduced in South Australia, we predicted it would cause more injuries than

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