Instead of fixing the gun problem, we have active shooter drills.

Instead of fixing infrastructure and car bloat, we have this 👇.

@davidho You can never totally get rid of bad drivers, or things that can cause even a good driver to be momentarily distracted (like a screaming kid throwing things in the back seat). And there's no way you can have drivers see invisible people dressed in black jay-walking half a block away from the light (or even at a crossing). At night drivers can have a hard time seeing what's in front or off to the side because of glare from overly bright modern headlines from oncoming cars. Pedestrians do need to be careful, and this chart is all good advise.
Same with bicycles (at night there should be lights on the front and back).

@AskPippa It's simple: be able to stop your vehicle in the space you can overlook. Yes, that means not going the limit at times.

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@wonka @AskPippa @davidho People here do 100 mph plus past rural settlements in tourist season ,let alone the speed limit,which is now 20mph through towns and villages (.Though another big cause of accidents,probably the biggest cause infact is tail gating

@Helengraham I know, and @bmdv thinks "this is fine"... no need to enforce speed limits, raise fines, revoke licenses on speedsters...

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@wonka @bmdv @AskPippa @davidho people ought to loose their licence for going over the national limit anywhere at all and 10 mph over the limit anywhere with lower limits because while I do get its easy to creep a few miles over the limit at points where the speed limit changes ,going 10mph over is a deliberate choice .I think the A9 needs average speed cameras too because its become common to do the route as a race which is what causes a lot of the 100mph plus speedsters

@Helengraham Problem is, we have no national limit in Germany, as the only state that is not Afghanistan...

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@wonka @bmdv @AskPippa @davidho Thats true I remember that being a bit scary when we used to visit .But UK cars have to be adapted for sale here anyway because we drive the opposite way to everyone else so fitting limiters wouldnt be too tricky
@AskPippa @davidho cars make the slight errors a possible death.
Any safety campaign around it can't really cancel that fact so we make sure you accept the road _has_ to be scary and dangerous.
@AskPippa @davidho I agree about clothing we are rural and I always go out in a visi vest after dusk or on dull days because its not worth the risk of a driver not seeing me ,ditto when I used to cycle because on unlit roads its is very hard to see someone in normal clothes .I usually have a little wind up torch clipped to me too ,.Drivers should go more slowly but they dont ,people are killed here every tourist season on what are normally quiet roads