National Speed Limit...

[wafflycat]

What's the maximum speed you can drive with a dog's head, tongue dangling, out of the window?

Depends what's going on with the rest of the dog..

 

[buggi]

The national speed limit is in force ONLY when you see the sign for it!! That's the white circle with the diagonal black line through it. As a general rule 30mph signs are not displayed UNLESS you are coming out of a 40mph, 50mph or national speed limit zone.

any speed OVER 30mph is signposted at the beginning of the road with smaller repeater signs usually on random lamposts, so if you don't see a sign for the speed then you should stick to 30mph.

If you are not sure, look down the next side road you pass. if there is a sign for 30 mph at the entrance to that side road, you are on a road that is faster than 30mph, as when you come off a faster road back into a 30mph zone they put a sign post at the entrance. If there is no sign for 30mph down the side road, then the road you are on is 30mph as there is no need for them to put a sign up as there is no change in speed limit. i learned this on an anti-speeding course i went on (when i got caught on camera oops)

 

[Mr Pig]

What's the maximum speed you can drive with a dog's head, tongue dangling, out of the window?

I think that if you have a dog's head how fast you can drive is the least of your worries! Although you should make enough money from TV appearances to pay for a chauffeur.

 

[Maz]

It is dependent on the vehicle type as well as the road markings

Read this for the guide

Ah, OK. You learn something new every day.

 

[yenrod]

Someone who recently took their driving test told me that the national speed limit on single-lane carriageway roads was 60mph, and 70mph on multi-lane carriageways.

Is this true?

For some inane reason new cardrivers get a kick out of this statement, heard it all before...

If they then went on to say BUT that depends on the conditions ie the traffic and the weather etc...that 'limit' is not GOD

I'd just put these people down as would be be killers; as a car is a weapon !

 

[Night Train]

It is dependent on the vehicle type as well as the road markings

Read this for the guide

When I was doing my Cert Ed I did a mini teach in front of the other teachers on the course. The subject was maximum speed limits on the public highway. All the other teachers were drivers, many of some considerable years of experience.
None of them knew what the speed limits were for different roads and vehicles except the 30mph limit where it was signed.

For example they didn't know that on a single carriageway road with a national speed limit a large goods vehicle could only travel at 40mph, cars with trailers could do 50mph and cars and motorbikes could do 60mph where conditions allowed.

I advised them all to buy a copy of the highway code and read it before they drove again. Not many road users bother to read the Highway Code except to pass a driving test.

 

[Arch]

For some inane reason new cardrivers get a kick out of this statement, heard it all before...

If they then went on to say BUT that depends on the conditions ie the traffic and the weather etc...that 'limit' is not GOD

I'd just put these people down as would be be killers; as a car is a weapon !

Yenrod, what's on earth's wrong with knowing and stating the speed limit correctly? By your logic, all qualified drivers are 'would be killers'", which is patently rubbish. I don't see anywhere in Maz's post where he reckoned this new driver was showing off, or getting a kick out of what they said.

Frankly, in the right hands, a fork is weapon, and I have several in my kitchen. Does that make me a would be killer?

 

[Smokin Joe]

Yenrod, what's on earth's wrong with knowing and stating the speed limit correctly? By your logic, all qualified drivers are 'would be killers'", which is patently rubbish. I don't see anywhere in Maz's post where he reckoned this new driver was showing off, or getting a kick out of what they said.

Frankly, in the right hands, a fork is weapon, and I have several in my kitchen. Does that make me a would be killer?

Now then Arch, put that fork down theres a good girl. We can talk this out, you know you'll regret it afterwards...

 

[Gary D]

Slightly off-topic, but I was scanning through the link that Linford provided and came across the regulations about overtaking where there are double white lines:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070306

See Item 129.

Didn't realise that vehicles shouldn't actually overtake unless you are doing less than 10 mph!


I wonder how many drivers know this? Not many I suspect. I certainly didn't

Gary.

 

[Arch]

Now then Arch, put that fork down theres a good girl. We can talk this out, you know you'll regret it afterwards...

I've got a teaspoon, and I'm not afraid to use it...

 

[buggi]

Slightly off-topic, but I was scanning through the link that Linford provided and came across the regulations about overtaking where there are double white lines:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070306

See Item 129.

Didn't realise that vehicles shouldn't actually overtake unless you are doing less than 10 mph!


I wonder how many drivers know this? Not many I suspect. I certainly didn't

Gary.

i thought it was 15mph does that mean people shouldn't overtake me when i'm on my bike then?

 

[Arch]

No, it's 10, as far as I know. Although I never know how fast I'm going so I can't tell if they ought to be overtaking or not...

I'd wonder how many car speedos were accurate at 10mph actually - some of them wobble about a fair bit...

 

[marinyork]

i thought it was 15mph does that mean people shouldn't overtake me when i'm on my bike then?

I frequently have this happen to me. I suppose sadly either way it doesn't really matter. If some nutter overtook on one of the bends and had a head on smash I'd be only too happy to point the blame (although I'd rather they didn't) but I suspect it'd get blamed on the cyclist for "being there". If on the other hand I suspect given the certainty of a head on collision many would drive into the cyclist and so we'd be talking a couple of hundred quid fine and a dead cyclist that brought it onto themselves for "being there" .

 

[Night Train]

Slightly off-topic, but I was scanning through the link that Linford provided and came across the regulations about overtaking where there are double white lines:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070306

See Item 129.

Didn't realise that vehicles shouldn't actually overtake unless you are doing less than 10 mph!


I wonder how many drivers know this? Not many I suspect. I certainly didn't

Gary.

At less then 10mph a vehicle can overtake by crossing the solid white line. A vehicle can also overtake at any speed up to the speed limit, if it is safe to do so, if it can do it without crossing the solid white line.

I am one of the very few drivers, I think, who always buys the latest copy of the Highway Code and reads it looking for the changes and updating my knowledge and memory.

 

[mr Mag00]

gary d are you saying you didnt know that you shouldnt overtake on a double white line?