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Shock, Horror! Government Ministers speed!

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

The Irish Mail on Sunday are “reporting” that Government Ministers and their cars have been cought excesivly speeding… and this is during a week when a load of new “state of the art” Gatso vans where bought…. great. government loosing money, not enough in the exchecker, and they go and blow a lot of money on some new Transit vans….

In all fairness, who really cares that a government minister and their garda driver is doing 200k in a 100k zone? same reason most people dont complain when the garda pass you on a motorway doing 100k in a 60k work area… they are trained to do these speeds, and so are the cars! they are not honda Civics or Fiat Puntos. they are high end Mercs and and Audis.
 
Ireland has a stupid reputation for going after speeders… People speed. big deal. and yes, people die in road crashes… i agree, speeding can be bad if you hit a tractor or Fiat Punto comming around a blind bend while your doing 160kph… but, lack of speed can also kill… you finding a fiat punto doing 40k on a motorway while your doing the 120kph speed limit can really ruin your day too….
did you know, 6 people a year die from licking 9 volt batteries…. wonder when the health and saftey loonies will start to stick stupid stickers on those…

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Speed kills

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Right, to start with, your probably thinking whats with all the angryness around cars? Well, i do a lot of driving around Dublin and Ireland in general, and, it has been said that you don’t have to be mad to drive in Dublin, but it helps. You get angry with a lot of people while driving around Dublin; Taxi drivers, Bus drivers, Bus lanes, speed cameras, speed bumps, and generally anything that gets in your way or slows you down.

So, on to the speed part of things. This idea of “Speed Kills”. It doesnt. Think about it. In a crash, the actual thing that kills is usually the sudden deceleration, the object that either hit you or you hut, and the car your traveling in breaking up and causing harm. Look at F1. Robert Kubitza crashed his F1 car doing 180Mph, and survived. Richard Hammond crashed at 288Mph and survived, with injuries to his brain, but is back to being himself.

Back to my point. Speed does not kill. its loosing control of your car at speed that causes problems. its like the idea of falling off a building will kill you. Well, it wont. its the sudden stop at the end, which we can blame gravity for, which actually kills you.

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