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Listed below are comments made by Frankie-Black between Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 and Tuesday, 28th July 2009.

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Map of the Week: Road crash victims 12:37pm on 28 Jul 2009 18. At 12:03pm on 28 Jul 2009, filipinomonkey wrote:
"Since insurance companies are pretty smart at making money it seems to me that what they are saying is that the current systems of approving an individual are inadequate."

Not necessarily. It's 20 years since I took my test, but I remember it was just me and the examiner in a Nissan Sunny at about three in the afternoon.
It certainly wasn't me, the examiner, and three of my tanked up mates in a Nova SRi at eleven at night.
The essential skills may be OK, it's the change in driver attitude between those two scenarios that needs to be prevented somehow.
Map of the Week: Road crash victims 10:33am on 28 Jul 2009 13. At 10:11am on 28 Jul 2009, cping500 wrote:
"But the figures are odd. What is serious injury? Since I assume a seriously injured person needs paramedical attention and hospital treatment, and hospitals are supposed to collect a set amount from insurance and they always ask me if it was a RTA, why is the data so poor."

Personal injury accident definitions;
Fatal injury: an injury which causes death less than 30 days after the accident,
Serious injury: an injury which does not cause death less than 30 days after the accident, and which requires hospital treatment (or causes death more than 30 days after the incident),
Slight injury: an injury which is neither "fatal" nor "serious" (essentially treated at the roadside for cuts and bruises.
Map of the Week: Road crash victims 10:10am on 28 Jul 2009 8. At 08:31am on 28 Jul 2009, penwithstar wrote:
"...I only hope no-one is seriously inujured or dies as a result, and should that happen, I hope the highway authority will be taken through the courts...."
Rest assured, the Police would treat every engineer involved in the design and implementation of such a scheme as a murderer (see Road Deaths Investigation Manual).

2. At 6:30pm on 27 Jul 2009, Secratariat wrote:
"I'll also bet that there are no plans made to analyse the design of our roads, the level of maintenance, the amount of street furniture and the ever increasing amount of signs along the road side."
The UK has an extensive library of standards which dictate modern road design. It is the historic rural lanes which are ultimately just surfaced field boundaries or cattle tracks where drivers feel they have the right to drive as fast as they can, that are the killers.
The latest development in road design is 'passive safety' (active safety being the systems in the vehicle), wherein all those signs are designed to fail in a safe manner when hit by a vehicle.

"...while the level of maintenance put ours to shame."
And presumably Germans are willing to pay for that level of maintenance. Ask any Local Authority engineer about their maintenance budget and watch a grown man weep.

"British roads have become an obstacle course in recent years, drivers are constantly distracted by the huge amount of signs popping up along all of our roads and I can't remember the last time I drove more than a mile without having to avoid pot-holes."
See my previous comment re rural lanes. If we had the money available we would upgrade them to modern standards (wider, flatter curves, better drainage). If we could trust all errant drivers not to sue or to drive within the conditions at all times we would do away with the signs.

At present we can do neither.
Was this swimming or boxing? 4:47pm on 20 Aug 2008 "Kev - I wouldn't count your chickens on Germany, their version of GB cycling is canoeing, which hasn't had many finals yet. That must be a sport we should be good at, with it being sitting down on water and everything - and has a good number of medals"
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Unfortunately, apart from Tim Brabants, not especially. However recently the British Canoe Union have been 'doing a cycling' by headhunting athletes who maybe haven't made the grade in their sports and fast-tracking them for London. Fingers crossed for 2012.
Could Foster bear the British banner in Beijing? 08:59am on 06 Aug 2008 mactabby wrote:
Not only did Sir Steve carry the flag in Atlanta, I'm pretty sure he carried it one-handed, which was some feat!

One of the greatest moments of an opening ceremony was seeing a fairly hefty weight-lifter from one of the old Soviet Asian Republics having to use the flag holder, whilst Sir Steve R. held the flag in one hand, arm straight out ahead of him, like one of those tests on the World's strongest man and without breaking a sweat.

If I'd have been one of his competitors and seen that I'd have got on the next plane home.

Legend.
Murder law reforms 5:27pm on 29 Jul 2008 "killing in response to words and conduct which caused the defendant to have a justifiable sense of being seriously wronged"
Isn't that the usual justification for 'Honour Killings'?
Britain has a drink problem 4:12pm on 22 Jul 2008 richiewormiling wrote; "I moved to Spain...", fine.
Sadly that's entirely the wrong direction if you want a fair comparison of Britain's drinking culture. Why on Earth should we have this much-vaunted 'Mediterranean' drinking culture when we aren't remotely close to the Med?
Look on a globe at a line of latitude 51 degrees north and those countries lying north of it. Compare their drinking culture to ours and we're all pretty much the same, we all drink to get drunk.
It appears even the saintly Swedes have a dirty little secret;
http://timstimes.net/2008/02/27/sweden-and-alcohol/
get to the bottom of Northern European culture/geography and we might actually solve this problem, but don't hold your breath.

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