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NOT. The rear suspension fell off this one! I was amazed and alarmed that this could happen. Is the MOT test stringent enough?The recovery added chaos to the already grid locked streets, that being caused by construction work for the much delayed and very over budget Tram system
Team Dashing Divas of "Driven A Woman's Rally" comprised of Asha, Pavithra, Shruthi and Deepti getting Flagged Off.
There are no real rules of the street...you drive in, you drive out..gamble with your brains, flesh and blood, the extra few seconds of your life you save breaking the traffic rules are so totally worth betting your life on it :)
Field testing the Sony Cybershpt DSC-H20 P&S camera provided from my office at Centre for Energy Studies, BUET. I take back everything I used to say to P&S owners about believing in their inner creativity. It really is hard shooting with a P&S, especially in the dark after it has just rained a few drops here and there.
"Drive carefully. Dying is for Easter eggs. PennDOT"
A macabre message promoting safe driving on an otherwise cheerful bumper sticker from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT).
As reported in the Pittsburgh Press on April 11, 1973, p. 14, Milton Shapp, governor of Pennsylvania (1971-1979), held a news conference to announce a "$15,000 traffic safety campaign for the Easter holidays with the slogan: 'Drive carefully. Dying is for Easter eggs.' The governor showed a 30-second Department of Transportation film which will be shown on television between now and the Easter weekend, reminding motorists to drive carefully. Transportation Secretary Jacob G. Kassab set the mood for the occasion by coloring Easter eggs and carefully placing them in a basket."
For another eyebrow-raising Pennsylvania bumper sticker, see Hell, No! I Don't Glow! Three Mile Island, Middletown, Pa.
Damaged steering wheel, by Sam Hood, c. 1935. Taken for Mr A.S. Cowell, consulting engineer, 117 Pitt St. NCY46/534 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5eWExn/J3PPK5LE4MbGo
It’s 30 for a reason.
8th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire
Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)
Voigtländer Bessa R3M
Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical
B+W 022 medium yellow filter
I have to admit to ignorance of the fact that a separate Highway Code was issued for Northern Ireland as in this 1955 edition. There are some minor differences such as in the subsitution of local place names on direction signs and the various Road Acts and Regulations are versions promulgated as being specific to Northern Ireland. I do like the line about "you must not loiter on pedestrian crossings'.
These pages show signs which "must be obeyed" and signs that "prohibit or restrict" the use of the road. They are of course of the old style of road traffic signs, revised in 1944, that were replaced under the 1964 design changes implemented by the Worboys Committee.
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Dublin, Ireland... view from the bridge over the motorway M50.
Second design for therethere.com. This is the universal understanding that the roads are for sharing, and everyone will be happier for this consideration.
A special Gold livery for RT4712. Branded as Transport For London'
At Stand 'A' at the The Roxy.
AEC Regent Bus 'RT'.
Diecast by EFE.
Special Gold livery celebrating 50 Years of Road Safety.
Part of a 3 piece gold bus gift set available at and only for 'The London Transport Museum.
Golden Jubilee Limited Edition Bus Set 11.
Released April 2003.
1:76 Scale, OO gauge
The Roxy diorama.
Protesting students were checking the driving license of a police vehicle in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The policemen were requesting not to take away their vehicle key. .
Risking life and limb - a game for all the family as they take part in a ‘free for all’ with the evening traffic on Kolkata’s Esplanade.
The tram is usually the winner.
Kolkata, India. December 2017. © David Hill
More recently ex Stagecoach Manchester and before that one of the numerous elderly Nationals acquired by G M Buses South. Had originally been new to Crosville. Pictured here in use as a road safety exhibition vehicle. She would later end up as a roadside cafe in Buckinghamshire before being destroyed in a fire.
Stockport, 11/11/2000.
Police Scotland came to Dingwall mart today with VOSA Officials to give farmers an Education day on road safety
The UK's first Highway Code was issued in 1931 and this is an early version of the Northern Ireland version. Printed in 1936 it was published by authority of the Minister of Home Affairs. It details basic points as to road safety and driving, including drivers hand signals. Oddly it does not contain road or traffic signs as reference.
The cover proudly announces the Code as "The way to safety" - as the Minister notes in his foreword "the cultivation of habits of prudence on the road becomes an absolute necessity".
Laos
Road safety is a critical issue in Laos where the number of road crashes and fatalities are increasing, consequently due to the growing number of registered vehicles. Motorcycles comprise of over 80% of the growth (annually), with 87%* all road deaths being motorcycle users. Helmet-wearing is recognised as a key priority by the government.
Road Safety Poster circa 1939 - 1959
Driving Signals Useless
The sooner the old system of hand signalling by motor drivers is restored the better it will be for road safety, writes our Brisbane representative.
The new signals have been in operation for about a year or more, and they have been a disastrous failure.
Accidents are happening in Brisbane every day, probably every hour, because of faulty signalling.
Before the new system operated, nobody worried about giving a signal to make a left-hand turn, unless it might be a "stopping" sign. The turn right was an arm held straight out, and the "come on" sign was an obvious wave of the hand.
Then last year a left-turn signal was introduced consisting of a kind of "pat the dog" action. Now that is just about all that is left of our once effective and easily understood form of signalling.
In Brisbane now a correct signal is becoming rare. A driver meaning to turn right starts waving his hand up and down - which is actually the turn-left sign - then at the last moment extends his arm and turns. Those behind are left to guess what he is going to do.
With thousands of drivers the up and down meaningless wave does for everything.
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Maryborough Chronicle, 4 April 1952
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A woman invites police to attack her after compaining that she had been molested by the police during a student protest for road safety_0448.JPG
Road Safety Poster circa 1939 - 1959
Driving At Night
Six Safety Rules
Some of the worst motoring smashes occur late at night and during the early hours of the morning, when the roads seem to be almost deserted, and speed seems both safe and exhilarating.
Safety mainly lies in being able to pull up within the range of vision which circumstances permit. The trouble is that the driver's judgement, under conditions such as those mentioned is so often likely to be at fault on this point.
Here, however, are six fundamentals of safe night driving:-
(1) Keep headlights adequately powered and properly focussed.
(2) Watch for objects on the road revealed by headlights of cars approaching from the opposite direction.
(3) Watch the left-hand edge of the road, and avoid looking into other drivers' headlights.
(4) Slow down at sundown to compensate for lower visibility.
(5) Particularly when there is a curve or a hillcrest ahead, slow down enough to be able to stop in plenty of time to avoid any stationary or approaching object which may come into view.
(6) If you feel jaded or tired or have had a quantity of drink, which may affect your judgment, don't drive until you have recovered.
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The Courier-Mail, 19 December 1938
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Safe Road demand Students' Protest in Chittagong Bangladesh. Protesters were asking police vehicle whether the driver had a valid driving license.
A mythical motorsport experience, where technology meets history in the Land of the Gods. The world’s greatest drivers and machines face each other in the world’s roughest surface.
Pages from a catalogue from one of the major street furniture and traffic sign manufacturers, Gowshall Ltd., of Oldbury in Staffordshire. They were part of the large Tube Investments "TI" Group. This shows the range of 'safety posts' and the reflective discs fitted and it is interesting to note that there was only one official style of Ministry of Transport safety post. Made of timber, in pre-plastics days, it had to be 6" wide, 1.5" thick and stand 3' 6" high and with a standard 6" disc. This, of course, could have white or red reflectors, depending on the 'direction of travel'.
These black and white posts, prone needless to say to rot at ground level, used to be such a feature of British roads and as a child I can recall mile after mile of these striped posts passing by on car and bike trips! As you can see, the prices (and weights of the posts) are shown along with discounts for bulk purchases!
A Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor - one of the last 3 in the Capital Region's Integrated Road Safety Unit based in Victoria, British Columbia. The IRSU is a partnership between the RCMP, Victoria Police, Oak Bay Police, Saanich Police, and Central Saanich Police in the Capital Region. Other areas in Canada had IRSUs as well.
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You have been warned.... As you can see on that picture these "cheeky"guys were using "Emergency lane" which is illegal as well extremely unsafe.. & were stoped by the "law". Emergency lanes / Shoulders have multiple uses, including: * Shoulders - especially paved or hard shoulders, increase road safety. They allow some extra space should a motorist need to take evasive action or need to recover control of their vehicle before a run-off-road collision occurs provide structural support of the roadway...& meant to be used by Emergancy / Motorway Vehicles only... etc etc
The M11 motorway in South Dublin was closed between junctions five and six from early morning until evening, causing "tremendous chaos" according to the AA's Conor Faughnan. The M50 southbound was also closed for a time at Junction 16 in Cherrywood.
The M11 closure "was the most disruptive thing that happened", he said. "It caused tremendous chaos in the morning commute and there were knock-on effects of enormous traffic delays right around the south side of Dublin. I have spent 3 hours sitting in the car & thanks God for the internet & an iphone LOL (...& for sure I had my Nikon with me)
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Manchester had, for many years, a municipal "Information Bureau" - it being the sort of city where the word 'tourist' sat uncomfortably for most of the Twentieth Century. One of its publications was a "Map of Manchester" and this is an amendment slip issued in 1952 to bring things up to date; bus route changes, etc. Anyhow, someone decided that the leaflet should have a second purpose - that of road safety and so here are two sketch cartoons pushing the sensible road safety message of "Don't be an ass!!". My how times and the use of language have changed.
This lovely ephemeral item, issued by the Dunlop Rubber Company in assocaition with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, appears here through the kindness of a good pal, Doug Rose, who has scanned and stiched it together. It was intended as a school teaching aid with one side as a display poster full of safety hints and tips, including many cycling details, and the other as an aide-mémoire for teachers to use in class.
The main chart is very detailed and has lots of useful advice! I love the fact that tram tracks, and their tricky nature for some cyclists, are still shown and the borders contain what was then the UK's standard road sign designs a few years before they were replaced by the new Worboys Committee inspired designs by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir. There's also an explanation of the UK's road number system that still holds strong a century after its introduction.
Dunlop stated here that their generosity, allied to the campaigning work of ROSPA, was due to their interests in both road vehicles and cycling - mostly through tyres and inner tubes. At the time the company's main headquarters and works in the UK was at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham. This massive site, developed in the latter years of the First World War and into the 1920s, was one of the world's largest tyre production plants until a combination of imports and declining home markets (with the closures of many UK car manufacturing plans) saw Dunlop close down from the 1990s onwards. The imposing building survives having been re-purposed.
A rural two lane two way highway, connecting Melandaha with Islampur in Jamalpur district, Bangladesh. This particular bend is very sharp and has been the reason of many motorcycle crashes over the years. Is this a good alignment ? Is there any way it can be remedied?