Re: High speed overtaking idiots.

Kev wrote:
> Klompmeester wrote:
> 
>>> That's why they don't like speed limits - they use you as a marker 
>>> for their own speed. It's always just a bit faster than you, but they 
>>> don't understand that if you went as fast as you like or fast enough 
>>> to "not be in their way" the race would never end... except into a 
>>> tree. They even do it at traffic lights - follow the next car through 
>>> without even looking at the lights.
>>> I often wonder what those people with little white crosses at the 
>>> roadside were actually doing when they died?
>>
>> No doubt speed, alcohol and/or fatigue played a part in most of them. 
>> The apologists might suggest otherwise though.
>>
> 
> 
> The only two along the road into my town are exactly that
> one(or multiple as he had lots of friends) was for excessive speed and 
> only had a licence for a year
> the other was for a couple, and the driver was pissed as a mute.
> 
> And these two crashes(within 6 months of each other) has now resulted in

> our road being subject to speed camera abuse
> on the plus side there are only two places with a road shoulder that can

> be used and the cameras are visible a long way off
> 
> but there are some crosses out there from people who were doing nothing 
> with regards to driving, and some drivers who just happened to be at a 
> certain spot when someone else did something stupid
> 
> 
> Kev


It's usually impossible to know, but there's always the thought your 
sympathy might be misplaced.