The other issue a lot of these "bases" have is they enchorage the staff to bring their cars over from the USA
Quote from: BBROWN1664 on 11 October 2019, 10:30:43 amThe other issue a lot of these "bases" have is they enchorage the staff to bring their cars over from the USA Why is that ?
Quote from: fazersharp on 11 October 2019, 10:37:31 amQuote from: BBROWN1664 on 11 October 2019, 10:30:43 amThe other issue a lot of these "bases" have is they enchorage the staff to bring their cars over from the USA Why is that ?On base, they drive on the right with a lot of US spec vehicles
I see. Then its no wonder that an American would come out of the base after driving on the right for a few days and then come out and carry on doing the same. What a stupid STUPID thing to do on a base --- that is just asking for trouble and im surprised it has not happened before . It would make far better sense to have to drive on the base on the left so at least they can get the hang of it off the roads.
Quote from: BBROWN1664 on 11 October 2019, 11:23:23 amQuote from: fazersharp on 11 October 2019, 10:37:31 amQuote from: BBROWN1664 on 11 October 2019, 10:30:43 amThe other issue a lot of these "bases" have is they enchorage the staff to bring their cars over from the USA Why is that ?On base, they drive on the right with a lot of US spec vehiclesI see. Then its no wonder that an American would come out of the base after driving on the right for a few days and then come out and carry on doing the same. What a stupid STUPID thing to do on a base --- that is just asking for trouble and im surprised it has not happened before . It would make far better sense to have to drive on the base on the left so at least they can get the hang of it off the roads.
On a sensible health and safety note I think it is probably time we started driving on the right hand side so we are in tune with the majority of the world.
Quote from: chris.biker on 11 October 2019, 05:19:57 pmOn a sensible health and safety note I think it is probably time we started driving on the right hand side so we are in tune with the majority of the world. Sweden switched in 1967 when they had a population of around 8m people spread over 447,000km2 . At that time they didn't really have much traffic and very few OAPs that would be easily confused. I don't think they would be able to do it today even though they still only have about 10m people there, many more are much older and easily confused.The UK is about half the size of Sweden at 224,000km2 but we have 66m people living here so there is a lot more traffic per mile than Sweden will ever see.We would see a lot more stories about people on the wrong side of the road, made even worse as people have their steering wheels on the wrong side until they buy new cars. Imagine the carnage as boy/girl racers pull out from behind a truck to overtake but hadn't seen the truck coming the other way.... Its a risk we take when we drive abroad, but we are on holiday and generally not running late for work etc so less likely to take that risk.Then theres all the car/van/bike headlights that "kick-up" to the left that would need stickers, or new headlights, to avoid dazzling people coming the other way. The road signs that would all need to be moved/replaced to show the new junction layouts etc. It would cost more than Brexshit and cause more deaths too.Make the rest of the world adopt the correct side of the road instead
What gets my goat is the the story has been hijacked by anti trumpests and care not for the biker.
Make the rest of the world adopt the correct side of the road instead
she should never have been allowed to leave the country, in my opinion.
Here we go That's it ---- Im out
(From what I've read) She'd only been over here 3 weeks. She had just pulled out of the base entrance and drove 400 yards before the collision. It's not murder. Manslaughter possibly, and certainly 'causing death by dangerous driving'.I also read that in the US they do not recognise diplomatic immunity where a foreign diplomat is involved in a serious traffic offence. Double standards.I'm also surprised there hasn't been much biker reaction. A fellow biker and his family destroyed.