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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

About time too. I hate people slowing down and watching what they can see on the other side of the road. That can cause more accidents. Looks expensive too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20851775

nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

They will still slow down to see what the big green thing on the other side is Rolling Eyes

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

graham b · Joined: 23 Sep 2010 Posts: 211 Location: Wakefield

I think we should have them as a permanent fixture on the M62 between 26 & 27 and any other blackspots.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

As a non-driver myself, I get quite cross at these people who accuse passing drivers of "rubbernecking". Is it not natural caution, and good sense, to slow down when passing the scene of an accident, in case there's any debris on the road, which may need to be avoided, rather than damage one's own car or, indeed, which might be flipped up, as a stone is, into the path of other motorists, or the crash scene itself, if you pass by at speed?
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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Not if you're driving on the opposite carrigeway Rolling Eyes

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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I've never come across the "problem" when we're on the opposite side of a dual carriageway. We have been in a queue of slow moving traffic passing an incident in the first lane and hard shoulder of the same carriageway and had a policeman scowling and gesticulating at us.
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R2Icon · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1444

These screen things are ... interesting, where will they keep them? Are they going to be big fold up things? On a truck(s)? What if it's really windy? Won't they blow away and cause more accidents? What if there's not enough screens to go around because there's more than one accident at the same time. What about the new phenomemon - screen chasers...? Oh read the link Rachel.... I see the screens now... hmmmmmm , I think if I was in an accident I'd rather being getting help from the emergency services than watching them them put up screens so no one can see me die.