A case for a moody plate?

Actually, the Greeks are. They're so bad the government stopped
publishing the statistics some years ago.

Belgium is about joint second-worst, with Portugal. Spain follows
closely after. IIRC you're about eight times more likely to die in a car
crash in Belgium and Portugal than you are here.

The UK is second-safest and somewhere Scandinavian - Denmark? Sweden? -
is at the top.

I had to investigate all this as a work thing a few years ago, so the
league tables might have changed, but I doubt it.

 

I always thought the on-the-spot fines were the easiest thing overall,
and the easiest to apply to foreign motorists/bikers.

I still dunno why we don't have them here, actually. It would certainly
stop all the furriners legging it back home scot-free.

If any Plod is reading this, I'd love to know the accident rate for
foreign trucks along the south stretch of the M25, because it seems like
every day there's another Continental artic that's gone and hit
something.

 

There's a reason they're called Victorians... TBH, I couldn't
remember which way around it was.

Ah, yes, NSW has several times had the best police force money can
buy in the whole world. I'm talking about the seventies when there were
lots of changes to the laws followed by the harmonisation across the
States a bit later. NSW used to have an open-road "prima-facie" speed
limit (other States had none at all) -- the limit was 60 mph (IIRC) but a
defence of driving safely was sufficient for an acquittal before court.
So, the cops used to sit inside the 30 mph zones to catch people who
didn't slow down for towns, and largely ignored open-road behaviour.
Then the harmonisation started with metrication, and the open-road limit
(which I think was raised slightly to 110 km/h) became absolute and you
were subject to radar traps anywhere. Around this time they also brought
in a points system, and plead-guilty-by-post, etc., much like here, and
the rot set in. But not before an airline pilot got off a charge of
driving over 170 km/h in a 70 or 80 zone in Canberra on the strength of
his superb training, powers of observation, and documented medical
fitness.

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

<Considers beer gut, lack of training and useless peepers and files
under "never mind'>

 

The Greek janitors certainly aren't up to much if this clip is anything
to go by:-

 

well it's good to know that there's some consistency...

I know, spelling all to shit...

 

And if you wear specs, you must carry a spare pair with you.[/QUOTE]

Seriously?

 

Fahkin caants.

I see the closet nazis are out in force in the comments column.

 

Trouble with that is it would tend to be all the more repressive bits
joined in an amalgam of sheer shiteyness.

 

Tja, but we still like you for your comedic value.

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Seriously?[/QUOTE]

I believe so, yes.

<googles>

Yup.

 

In message

True in germany IIRC

 

.... and several other countries on the continent, AFAIR.

 

You'd have thought that something like this would have made the press.
Plod and VOSA would have been quite pleased to trumpet it.

 

Heh, I sooo wish this was true. Bikes can be immediatley impounded for
small plates. So I almost found out.

 

They don't bother to chase round here. But then again they don't need to -
about 1 km past the speed camera point[1] , and before you get to any turn
off points, you tend to find 3+ cars of Gendarmes, all armed with at least
1 shotgun at the ready for those who show no sign of slowing when advised
to[2]......

Dave

[1] For the mobile ones where they hide behind a wall and clock you, not the
fixed points, obv. This applies to backroads through villages as well as
Autoroutes.
[2] I assume to point at the tyres or suchlike, but I'm not that keen to
find out where they aim[3]
[3] There are a significant minority of Occitan campaigners here. A small
minority of them have been known to help out ETA in the past (with 6 ETA
members, wanted for bombings, arrested in the region in the last month or
so...), so maybe the guns round here are just a reaction to the local
situation.

 

You may well be right, but I think it's a case of having a big push
over the last few months. They're even cracking down on dodgy exhausts,
small indicators, etc, etc.

 

It's the EU. Think Moscow 1945.