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Take primary, cover your brakes then watch the wheels, never the driver, you'll see them moving before you realise the vehicle is, as for the driver don't think they have seen you or care they will be looking straight through you most likely, this type of offending accounts for
75% of car vs cycle #KSIs & is always the drivers fault as they pull in front of a road user who has right of way when they enter or leave a junction.
Some drivers depending on their personal awareness only "look" for other cars as that's their only "threat",motorcyclists suffer
Some drivers depending on their personal awareness only "look" for other cars as that's their only "threat",motorcyclists suffer
the same offending behaviours. At the point of pulling out of the junction the cyclist is easy to see, if you hold your fist out in front of you that's how big they appear roughly. If you want to know more about why some people don't see them due to not "looking" properly read
#Evidencebasedpolicing is all about addressing the #greatestthreatofharm, let's look at cycling offences 👍The place where evidentially we know cyclists pose a constant threat of harm is at pedestrian crossings & so the allocation of resources to enforce contraventions at such a
vulnerable location is fully justified. A plain clothed spotter with stopping officers further down the road is the best way to do it 👍 As the amount of people using #ActiveTravel rises this will become an emerging trend and so will need attention. 👍 Run it in the same way we
ran our #ASL operations where those who inconvienced or endangered were ticketed, those that haven't are warned. Then get the awareness right through the media push & you start to get behaviour change 👍. With increasing numbers of people cycling & walking due to #Modalshift
That Panorama programme, but where to start... 🤔
Let's go with speed cameras first, programme makes a big thing about them not working, well they haven't for 5+ years mostly since the switch from wet film to digital & average cameras, fixed site cameras are largely ineffective
Let's go with speed cameras first, programme makes a big thing about them not working, well they haven't for 5+ years mostly since the switch from wet film to digital & average cameras, fixed site cameras are largely ineffective
anyway unless placed at problem sites. Traffic officer numbers decreased dramatically from 2011/12 not 2016, if they had explored the earlier years they would have discovered a much larger decrease. Then we come to existing traffic officer numbers, most are in a ANPR intercept
role or share other roles such as ARV duties, thus do very little core traffic work but count as traffic officers on a headcount. Drink driving, well there's less tests as cuts have consequences, most drink drive arrests are proactive but due to high demand officers
