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<blockquote data-quote="fermerboy" data-source="post: 7684631" data-attributes="member: 190"><p>We farm on a busy A road here, and it seems to be an accident blackspot as well. Another young lad killed here last week.</p><p></p><p>The road although not ideal isn't a bad road but the standard of driving has gone downhill badly in the last few years, it seems that people are just taught how to pass the test, not how to drive.</p><p></p><p>My father had a triple fatality accident at my road end 20 odd years ago, when a car rear ended him while turning right, the digger while written off, did better than the Vauxhall that hit him, and I can tell you it doesn't go away, I/we think on it every day without fail.</p><p></p><p>It makes you very aware, often I won't sit and turn right if I'm at all suspicious of other drivers, either get on the verge or go down to next junction and turn around so we can get off using a left turn. Any casual drivers here at silage are well told to abandon the turn if there is any doubt, forager will easily wait a few minutes.</p><p></p><p>Most cars have loads more power than ever, but folk can't pass, we were taught to get it down in to 2nd or 3rd and floor it past, be in the danger zone as little as possible, nowadays that should be even easier, but I don't know if its lack of knowledge, or fear of going over the limit and getting caught or what. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /></p><p></p><p>Beacon blindness is well and truly a thing round here, it seems to hypnotise some drivers in to following you forever, more than once I have pulled into a layby to find the cars following in also and then wondering why you are stopping and where they are, its actually hilarious watching them realise and then scramble to get back on the road. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>There is also the sheep mentality thing, which could also be the last point but I guarantee that if the first car overtakes while you have the RH indicator on, the others following will too, they are just following the one in front. I'd really like to think that if the cops got a car passing me while my RH flasher was on, they'd do the hell out of them.</p><p></p><p>I have tried a traffic policeman to dump his hat, put on a boilersuit, and come with me carting straw, instead of sitting behind a bush with the camera, or driving about in a luminous car so he could see what its really like, but funnily enough, not interested.</p><p></p><p>To be honest I find truck drivers the best, and people who drive every day not such a problem, its the ones who drive at the weekends that scare the crap out of you, they, while proficient just lack the amount of experience and judgement that regular daily users have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fermerboy, post: 7684631, member: 190"] We farm on a busy A road here, and it seems to be an accident blackspot as well. Another young lad killed here last week. The road although not ideal isn't a bad road but the standard of driving has gone downhill badly in the last few years, it seems that people are just taught how to pass the test, not how to drive. My father had a triple fatality accident at my road end 20 odd years ago, when a car rear ended him while turning right, the digger while written off, did better than the Vauxhall that hit him, and I can tell you it doesn't go away, I/we think on it every day without fail. It makes you very aware, often I won't sit and turn right if I'm at all suspicious of other drivers, either get on the verge or go down to next junction and turn around so we can get off using a left turn. Any casual drivers here at silage are well told to abandon the turn if there is any doubt, forager will easily wait a few minutes. Most cars have loads more power than ever, but folk can't pass, we were taught to get it down in to 2nd or 3rd and floor it past, be in the danger zone as little as possible, nowadays that should be even easier, but I don't know if its lack of knowledge, or fear of going over the limit and getting caught or what. :confused::confused: Beacon blindness is well and truly a thing round here, it seems to hypnotise some drivers in to following you forever, more than once I have pulled into a layby to find the cars following in also and then wondering why you are stopping and where they are, its actually hilarious watching them realise and then scramble to get back on the road. :):) There is also the sheep mentality thing, which could also be the last point but I guarantee that if the first car overtakes while you have the RH indicator on, the others following will too, they are just following the one in front. I'd really like to think that if the cops got a car passing me while my RH flasher was on, they'd do the hell out of them. I have tried a traffic policeman to dump his hat, put on a boilersuit, and come with me carting straw, instead of sitting behind a bush with the camera, or driving about in a luminous car so he could see what its really like, but funnily enough, not interested. To be honest I find truck drivers the best, and people who drive every day not such a problem, its the ones who drive at the weekends that scare the crap out of you, they, while proficient just lack the amount of experience and judgement that regular daily users have. [/QUOTE]
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