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by parthianbow » Wed October 20th, 2010, 3:07 pm
I have to say I'm impressed by the ground you and your husband managed to cover, Tanzanite! I'm really glad that it was a good trip.
Given some of the previous posts, I also feel obliged to speak up in defence of sleeping policemen.
I say this as someone who used to speed in urban areas. Now, I live in a village without afore mentioned sleeping policemen. It is also a place where many drivers see fit to drive at speeds of up to 40+ mph. (How can I tell this? By the speed at which they pull away from me when I'm doing 30 mph.) Consequently, and as the father of 2 young children, I think that sleeping policemen are excellent. If I could, I would instal them all over our village.
A few sobering statistics:
95% of pedestrians die when hit by a car doing 40 mph.
If that vehicle is doing 35, it's still a scary 45%.
At 30 mph, it's just 15%.
*Stops writing, climbs off soapbox.*
Ben Kane
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