23,039 for 2012, going down but not as fast as the number of deaths. Probably marginal speeding has more involvement in this, I think. Apparently, 1 in 4 of the deaths and the serious injuries are speeding related. yikes.
For what it's worth, I've always thought it would be a good idea to require a refresher course periodically, perhaps each time our license was up for renewal. I know that senior driver courses are widely available, and if attended, there's supposed to be a discount of some sort on car insurance (I think, not positive about that
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Used to be advanced driver courses meant lower premiums here, but apparently not so much anymore.
The faster country roads around here, you've got a closing speed way over 100mph with oncoming traffic a few feet the right-hand side, complete strangers at the wheel, which has got to mean plenty of cowboys, idiots and cardiac patients. What can do but applaud the power of social conditioning if it means we all find that acceptable, day after day after day?
Mind you, I put the way we engineer/manage road traffic and motor cars in general into the category of problems that make you ask how come we can put a man on the moon so many decades ago and still not find a better way doing things?
Driving at 30 mph over the speed limit, 100 mph on motorway, you will be disqualified from driving for at least 12 months depending on your past history.
Causing death or serious injury by dangerous driving, for which you can go to prison for 14 years. Dangerous driving without death or injury still could carry 5 years prison sentence. Speeding, no matter how marginal, is a criminal offence. eek!
Ah yes, the dear Maria, Countess of Coventry. Once upon a time so famous for her beauty that people would queue by the thousands just to see her shoes. Lived only to 27, after falling into a deadly spiral of applying more and more lead and mercury based cosmetics to mask the damage the very same concoctions had already caused her skin. In the end, dying so young, she wasn't even able to leave a beautiful corpse.
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The faster country roads around here, you've got a closing speed way over 100mph with oncoming traffic a few feet the right-hand side, complete strangers at the wheel, which has got to mean plenty of cowboys, idiots and cardiac patients. What can do but applaud the power of social conditioning if it means we all find that acceptable, day after day after day?
Mind you, I put the way we engineer/manage road traffic and motor cars in general into the category of problems that make you ask how come we can put a man on the moon so many decades ago and still not find a better way doing things?
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Causing death or serious injury by dangerous driving, for which you can go to prison for 14 years.
Dangerous driving without death or injury still could carry 5 years prison sentence.
Speeding, no matter how marginal, is a criminal offence. eek!
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/penalties
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