{"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":"<p>This story is doing the rounds at the moment &#8211; every version stems from some &#8220;research&#8221; 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&#8217;s hardly &#8220;research&#8221;, but it still makes interesting reading. I&#8217;ll <a title=\"Automotive Blog - Sunday Drivers\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.automotiveblog.co.uk\/2011\/07\/sunday-drivers-driving-uk-crazy\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">link to a blogged version<\/a>, because all the others appear to be insurance companies trying to get in on the act.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6435 lazyload\" title=\"Slow Drivers\" alt=\"Slow Drivers\" width=\"180\" height=\"255\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/slow_driver.gif\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/255;\" \/>In 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<p>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 &#8211; how many more near misses occur due to the same cause?<\/p>\n<p>There are now calls for &#8220;slow speed cameras&#8221; to be installed, or even slow lanes for these people.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Personally, I&#8217;d welcome it. However, the problems are much bigger than just making it an offence &#8211; there&#8217;s no point forcing people who can&#8217;t drive properly to drive faster. They&#8217;re bad enough as it is.<\/p>\n<p>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":"<p>This story is doing the rounds at the moment &#8211; every version stems from some &#8220;research&#8221; 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&#8217;s hardly &#8220;research&#8221;, but it still makes interesting reading. I&#8217;ll link to a blogged version, [&hellip;]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":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}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}