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[Paul James]

Originally Posted by Bionicle

When you think of all the distractions available to car drivers that bikers do not have, it stands to reason that bikers are concentrating on the road ahead where as its more or less certain that car drivers 60-80% of the time are either talking on their phone, texting, reading the paper, playing with their CD collection, lighting up a smoke, talking to their passenger, shouting at the kids, looking at a map\satnav, picking their nose, eating their bigmac they just bought from the drive through or one of a hundred things that can cause distractions to a car driver that is denied to bikers, its these things that should be addressed before they look at reducing speed limits.

Exactly but it is always easier to pass the blame.

Without doubt some people ride like tw*ts and are just an accident waiting to happen but they by no means represent the majority.

The other thing that I find concerning is the number of people driving who, when you watch how they drive, could never have passed a driving test. There are so many cars on the road now and so few resources to tackle the real issues that all the authorities do is reduce the speed limit and bung in a few more revenue raising cameras.