Another crash
Another crash
Yep same area, this time Windermere Ave a VW golf wrapped round a tree.
Avoid the area
Avoid the area
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i wonder if the speed limit was being obeyed.
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The tree was almost certainly under the limit.
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Thought this was referencing m65. 4 yesterday on way to Preston. And not even the worse drive of the week on that motorway.
M65 is an absolute shocker these days.
M65 is an absolute shocker these days.
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Roads do not have accidents, I suggest that it may have more to do with those driving on them.cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:29 pmThought this was referencing m65. 4 yesterday on way to Preston. And not even the worse drive of the week on that motorway.
M65 is an absolute shocker these days.
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Correct. And there seems to be a minimum of one a day on the 65 now.Ashingtonclaret46 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:45 pmRoads do not have accidents, I suggest that it may have more to do with those driving on them.
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I am driving to Preston hospital every weekday for 2 months at 6am every morning........it is a nightmare drive in the dark.Drivers are exceeding well over the speed limit and quite frankly it is scary at times.
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Ditto on that route every week. No matter what time I leave at if it’s after six it’s a nightmare. And at night any time until at least seven thirty is. The closed road on Accy road isn’t helping in either direction. Everyone funnelling into one place. And the one road out of town they’ve built a Starbucks on it to time with that closure.The Enclosure wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:55 pmI am driving to Preston hospital every weekday for 2 months at 6am every morning........it is a nightmare drive in the dark.Drivers are exceeding well over the speed limit and quite frankly it is scary at times.
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And closing a lane on each side of the motorway hasn’t helped eithercricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:59 pmDitto on that route every week. No matter what time I leave at if it’s after six it’s a nightmare. And at night any time until at least seven thirty is. The closed road on Accy road isn’t helping in either direction. Everyone funnelling into one place. And the one road out of town they’ve built a Starbucks on it to time with that closure.
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To be fair, if the M65 is too dangerous to drive on at 70 mph, then the powers that be ought to cut the speed limit to a more reasonable level.Ashingtonclaret46 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:45 pmRoads do not have accidents, I suggest that it may have more to do with those driving on them.
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Nowt wrong with the M65. Drivers though ?cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:29 pmThought this was referencing m65. 4 yesterday on way to Preston. And not even the worse drive of the week on that motorway.
M65 is an absolute shocker these days.
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Anyone seen work going on yet on the bollarded off section of the M65 ? I haven't. Why didn't they wait until the work at the network 65 junction was finished ?
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Are you saying that it's an entirely different set of drivers on the M65 from the people who drive on the other roads? That since they turned the lights off, the drivers have got worse?
Is it the same on "smart motorways" - the increase in deaths is caused by bad driving and not to do with the road?
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M65 from Burnley to Colne will be subject to a 50 mph speed limit from 15th February until the end of March for drainage improvement works.
I suspect this may also include lane closures.
I suspect this may also include lane closures.
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It’s 50 at minute going toward Accrington. But as no cameras people just get up your backside and then race past or undercut you.
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Driver was being a cock in it yesterday and was stopped up Harle Syke
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Two pillocks were racing last night in the 50 area approaching the Padiham turn off I just couldn't believe they were so stupid. Sad thing is they get away with it.
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It's mad February and March that happens every year when the budget has to be spent
before the financial year end of 31st March.
Spend it or lose it is the motto.
before the financial year end of 31st March.
Spend it or lose it is the motto.
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Marlborough street where haffners is exact same. People with kids on a narrow path with parked cars and arseholes race up there at fifty.
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I hope the tree is OK.ClaretFelix wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:28 pmDriver was being a cock in it yesterday and was stopped up Harle Syke
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And High Speed will kill More.
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It’s the people that pull the trigger that do the killing
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What about all the potholes? Some local roads may only be passable soon in an off road vehicle. Drivers weaving around, braking suddenly, being tailgate because you slow down to avoid having your suspension fall off.
It's about time they realised that patchwork repairs are no good on a busy road such as North Valley Colne. Too many HGV's to make mince meat out of them.
There is a Gulley outside sainsbury Colne that spans the width of the road. I can't understand why LCC consider this to fine. I was stopped in traffic there and thought there must have been an earthquake at some point
It's about time they realised that patchwork repairs are no good on a busy road such as North Valley Colne. Too many HGV's to make mince meat out of them.
There is a Gulley outside sainsbury Colne that spans the width of the road. I can't understand why LCC consider this to fine. I was stopped in traffic there and thought there must have been an earthquake at some point
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The road passing Nelson police station is a shocker.karatekid wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 9:13 amWhat about all the potholes? Some local roads may only be passable soon in an off road vehicle. Drivers weaving around, braking suddenly, being tailgate because you slow down to avoid having your suspension fall off.
It's about time they realised that patchwork repairs are no good on a busy road such as North Valley Colne. Too many HGV's to make mince meat out of them.
There is a Gulley outside sainsbury Colne that spans the width of the road. I can't understand why LCC consider this to fine. I was stopped in traffic there and thought there must have been an earthquake at some point
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Smart motorways are dangerous. AA have banned their drivers from attending breakdowns on them following the death rates to drivers stuck in live lanes and attempting to exit their vehicles.
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If that’s the case, why don’t more people die on Aeroplanes?
I maintain my correct assertion - speed does not kill, rapid deceleration does.
Whilst on the point, I get fed up with the statement “speed kills” because, as I highlighted it is wrong and there are usually other major factors involved that affect the outcome of a car impact. Notably stupidity and lack of experience.
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Don't condone driving up backsides or undercutting but..cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:22 pmIt’s 50 at minute going toward Accrington. But as no cameras people just get up your backside and then race past or undercut you.
You could simply move over and let them be a danger to someone else?
Another death on Skipton's roads too
https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/182 ... ston-cold/
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You could. If you were in the lane that allows you to pull any further left. Or equally if in the ‘fast’ lane you weren’t being undercut in the middle lane.clarethomer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:13 amDon't condone driving up backsides or undercutting but..
You could simply move over and let them be a danger to someone else?
Another death on Skipton's roads too
https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/182 ... ston-cold/
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Cardclaret wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:38 amSmart motorways are dangerous. AA have banned their drivers from attending breakdowns on them following the death rates to drivers stuck in live lanes and attempting to exit their vehicles.
Talking out of arse here... you have no idea. Just spouting reactionary and false crap about Smart Motorways from The Sun
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I just presumed that if they were passing you on your left there would be room to pull in. It frustrates the hell out of me though when you are just behind a queue of other cars so it's not actually you that's holding people up.cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:18 amYou could. If you were in the lane that allows you to pull any further left. Or equally if in the ‘fast’ lane you weren’t being undercut in the middle lane.
Lot of impatient drivers out there - many of which seem to have anger issues too.
I sometimes undercut middle lane drivers just to make a point though as the lane discipline in this country seems very poor in comparison to other countries i have driven in.
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Travel to Preston in rush hour four times a week. Totally agree it is like wacky races. The standard of driving on the roads anywhere from Gannow roundabouts to Preston centre the Highway Code is treated as an alternative ‘hippy’ ideal... inside lanes used for third exits being just the first Burnley example of accidents waiting to happen.cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:46 pmCorrect. And there seems to be a minimum of one a day on the 65 now.
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thought we were talking cars.... Google may give you the answer.Zlatan wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:00 amIf that’s the case, why don’t more people die on Aeroplanes?
I maintain my correct assertion - speed does not kill, rapid deceleration does.
Whilst on the point, I get fed up with the statement “speed kills” because, as I highlighted it is wrong and there are usually other major factors involved that affect the outcome of a car impact. Notably stupidity and lack of experience.
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Driving too quick for the conditions kills.
Imo there needs to be a different law that's applicable in different scenarios, ie 03:00 am going at 120mph on an empty motorway is vastly different than doing it at 08:00am with traffic around.
Imo there needs to be a different law that's applicable in different scenarios, ie 03:00 am going at 120mph on an empty motorway is vastly different than doing it at 08:00am with traffic around.
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But the result of you hit the central reservation when your tire blows or you hit an unexpected pothole will be the same.CoolClaret wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 6:31 pmDriving too quick for the conditions kills.
Imo there needs to be a different law that's applicable in different scenarios, ie 03:00 am going at 120mph on an empty motorway is vastly different than doing it at 08:00am with traffic around.
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I don't think you're all that likely to cause a multiple car pile-up if you do it when there's no traffic about. On an empty motorway, you're likely to kill only yourself.cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:45 pmBut the result of you hit the central reservation when your tire blows or you hit an unexpected pothole will be the same.
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The vast majority of the strategic road network is unlit, so I'd suggest it's more to do with the bad driving that is rampant on the M65 than the lights being removed.dsr wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 8:43 pmAre you saying that it's an entirely different set of drivers on the M65 from the people who drive on the other roads? That since they turned the lights off, the drivers have got worse?
Is it the same on "smart motorways" - the increase in deaths is caused by bad driving and not to do with the road?
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Not to worry that’s alright for the fire Brigade, paramedics, police and your family then.
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The vast majority of the strategic road network doesn't have 8 junctions in 15 miles with extra lanes appearing and disappearing and at least one of the junctions liable to be so busy that there are standing cars on the main carriageway and more cars than the road can easily hold. Yes, you can look at the M6 north of Lancaster and say there are few accidents on there so why should there be more on the M65 at rush hour.deanothedino wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:51 pmThe vast majority of the strategic road network is unlit, so I'd suggest it's more to do with the bad driving that is rampant on the M65 than the lights being removed.
Have they tried switching all the light out on the M62 or the M65 or at Spaghetti Junction or where the M5 and M6 merge and split? I doubt it. Comparing our end of the M65 with the M6 north of Lancaster isn't a fiar comparison - are there any similarly crowded and involved stretches of motorway with no lights, not even at the junctions?
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I think you might have misread what I said. What I said was that a crash when there is no-one else around isn't the same as a crash on a crowded road. I have no idea how you took that to mean that a crash when there is no-one else around didn't matter, but apologies for any confusion.cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:53 pmNot to worry that’s alright for the fire Brigade, paramedics, police and your family then.
That is, I assume you were being sarcastic and don't really think a single car crash doesn't matter? Surely not.
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Where am I comparing it with the M6 north of Lancaster?dsr wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:59 pmThe vast majority of the strategic road network doesn't have 8 junctions in 15 miles with extra lanes appearing and disappearing and at least one of the junctions liable to be so busy that there are standing cars on the main carriageway and more cars than the road can easily hold. Yes, you can look at the M6 north of Lancaster and say there are few accidents on there so why should there be more on the M65 at rush hour.
Have they tried switching all the light out on the M62 or the M65 or at Spaghetti Junction or where the M5 and M6 merge and split? I doubt it. Comparing our end of the M65 with the M6 north of Lancaster isn't a fiar comparison - are there any similarly crowded and involved stretches of motorway with no lights, not even at the junctions?
There are 4,500 miles in the UK strategic road network, the M6 north of Lancaster is about 75 miles.
70% of the SRN has never had lighting installed, that's 3,150 miles.
As for the junctions comparison. I don't know.
I'd say nationally, a bigger issue is the maintenance of cat eyes. They are essential for unlit roads and it many locations (particularly trunk roads to places in Devon/Cornwall, and Southampton off the top of my head) you can't see them until they're about 15m in front of you - which is pretty poor.
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You're comparing it roads like the M6 north of Lancaster. I'm not mile-by-nile familiar with the entire network, but I know that bit and it isn't lit and doesn't have as many accidents as the M65.deanothedino wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 11:00 amWhere am I comparing it with the M6 north of Lancaster?
There are 4,500 miles in the UK strategic road network, the M6 north of Lancaster is about 75 miles.
70% of the SRN has never had lighting installed, that's 3,150 miles.
As for the junctions comparison. I don't know.
I'd say nationally, a bigger issue is the maintenance of cat eyes. They are essential for unlit roads and it many locations (particularly trunk roads to places in Devon/Cornwall, and Southampton off the top of my head) you can't see them until they're about 15m in front of you - which is pretty poor.
The point is, virtually all the network is run by the Highways Agency who put lights on the tricky bits with busy junctions and lanes going from three to two, and leave (by and large) only the straight, easy bits unlit. The M65 east of Blackburn is run by the County Council who have chosen to switch all the lights off, and in the case of Burnley to Colne, to dig them up entirely, even though it is (as motorways go) a tricky bit of road.
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Gotcha, cause you know that 1.6% of the network that must have been what I was comparing it to. I wasn’t.dsr wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 11:00 pmYou're comparing it roads like the M6 north of Lancaster. I'm not mile-by-nile familiar with the entire network, but I know that bit and it isn't lit and doesn't have as many accidents as the M65.
The point is, virtually all the network is run by the Highways Agency who put lights on the tricky bits with busy junctions and lanes going from three to two, and leave (by and large) only the straight, easy bits unlit. The M65 east of Blackburn is run by the County Council who have chosen to switch all the lights off, and in the case of Burnley to Colne, to dig them up entirely, even though it is (as motorways go) a tricky bit of road.
Rather than (a road that is getting improved lighting) the A34 to Winchester that is a tricky road. Largely unlit, crap cat eyes, generally very dangerous.
I don’t think Burnley to Colne is tricky. You could make a case for lighting the junctions but not the rest to be honest. It’s more of a dual carriageway than a motorway, and the main problem is the people who drive on it and their behaviour.
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I reckon that when you are driving past Brierfield exit towards Colne with traffic merging from the left, the next junction less than a mile away so traffic is merging from the right, the fair chance that there will be standing traffic on the hard shoulder or even the carriageway itself, standing water filling the outside lane, and it's pitch dark on top; that's tricky.