{"id":6434,"date":"2011-07-21T16:43:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2011-07-21T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T16:43:59","slug":"slow-drivers-are-major-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6434","title":{"rendered":"Slow Drivers are Major Headache"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story is doing the rounds at the moment – every version stems from some “research” by confused.com. Translated into English, that means they asked a few people what annoyed them most and then put the answers into a spreadsheet. It’s hardly “research”, but it still makes interesting reading. I’ll link to a blogged version<\/a>, because all the others appear to be insurance companies trying to get in on the act.<\/p>\n

\"SlowIn a nutshell, 60% of those questioned said slow drivers were the biggest cause of stress on the roads, and 45% of those admitted to dangerously attempting to overtake to get past them.<\/p>\n

Department of Transport data show that 143 accidents a year are directly caused by slow drivers. Of course, those are the tip of the iceberg – how many more near misses occur due to the same cause?<\/p>\n

There are now calls for “slow speed cameras” to be installed, or even slow lanes for these people.<\/p>\n

There are plans for \u00a3100 spot fines for careless driving, including driving too slowly, to be introduced this year. Minimum speed limits already exist on some motorways.<\/p>\n

Personally, I’d welcome it. However, the problems are much bigger than just making it an offence – there’s no point forcing people who can’t drive properly to drive faster. They’re bad enough as it is.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, if someone is pulled over for driving too slowly then they should have their licence suspended and forced to take a driving improvement course of some kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story is doing the rounds at the moment – every version stems from some “research” by confused.com. Translated into English, that means they asked a few people what annoyed them most and then put the answers into a spreadsheet. It’s hardly “research”, but it still makes interesting reading. I’ll link to a blogged version, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t