Lord Bracknell
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LDC are not responsible - thank God - for the roads in their district.Gully said:
The A27 is a trunk road and it's the Government's Highways Agency that is in charge.
A27 closed between Lewes and Berwick.
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The A27 is a trunk road and it's the Government's Highways Agency that is in charge.
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
...plus the number of people you still see using mobile phones whilst driving, it is crazy. I have come up with a radical plan, get rid of speed cameras and the camera partnerships and pay for more traffic policemen to uphold the rules of the road. I am sure it would cut deaths in the long run, after all a speed camera won't stop someone drinking and driving or using their mobile phone, regardless of what speed they are travelling at, but more traffic cops will!
Lady Bracknell
Handbag at Dawn
The Firle straight is now far safer since the recent improvements. Although no matter how many safety measures you put in, you can't engineer anything for complete feckwits. Like the bloke who went around the traffic island on the Firle straight the other week thus driving head on in my direction on my side of the road!!! 
Lord Bracknell
On fire
As far as policing is concerned, why don't we have a national traffic police force?
The trouble with the current arrangements is that all-purpose forces like Sussex Police have to resolve the dilemma about what is more important - traffic policing or crime prevention/detection.
Most motorists seem to go along with the line of argument that makes it OK to say to a traffic cop "Why aren't you out catching PROPER criminals, instead of picking on the poor, innocent motorist?"
Motorists are NOT "innocent". They are potential killers.
The trouble with the current arrangements is that all-purpose forces like Sussex Police have to resolve the dilemma about what is more important - traffic policing or crime prevention/detection.
Most motorists seem to go along with the line of argument that makes it OK to say to a traffic cop "Why aren't you out catching PROPER criminals, instead of picking on the poor, innocent motorist?"
Motorists are NOT "innocent". They are potential killers.
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
I don't disagree for you about motorists being innocent, driving a car badly is like walking round with a loaded gun and the safety catch off, you might have a mishap and nobody gets hurt, or someone totally innocent could get killed.
I just think that knowing that there were more traffic police on the road acts as a visible deterrant, whereas people drive like arseholes most of the time and just slow down where they know that there are cameras.
I just think that knowing that there were more traffic police on the road acts as a visible deterrant, whereas people drive like arseholes most of the time and just slow down where they know that there are cameras.
Lord Bracknell said:
Well said Lord B. I go to Canada 2 or 3 times a year and notice how the highways are policed by traffic cops who pull over idiots but also keep roads flowing as quickly as possible after an incident. They realise that it is important to keep delays to a minium to reduce driver frustration. The sight of markeed police cars has a salutary affect on drivers, me included.
Jam The Man
Well-known member
Lord Bracknell said:
That might actually be on the way at some stage in the next few years... watch this space
UK Highway Patrol's version of 'CHiPs'
Lord Bracknell
On fire
You mean that the government will announce its plans on NSC?Jam The Man said:
Blimey.
Bakesy
Farting for ENGLAND!!!
I've just read on teletext that it was at Firle and a 10 year old girl died........
bakesy said:I've just read on teletext that it was at Firle and a 10 year old girl died........
Very, very sad.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Bry Nylon said:
Another tragic end to a very young life.
Bry - you surprised me about not wearing a seat belt.
Beach Hut said:
I always do in the front. Wouldn't ever think of not doing so. But I hardly ever travel in the back of a car and it just isn't a habit, as such. Foolish I know, and believe me, after Thursday night I won't need reminding again.
Bakesy
Farting for ENGLAND!!!
I assume you work for one of the services?Bry Nylon said:
bakesy said:
Fire service.
I know XooX and Edna K are police officers. Not sure if we have any Coast Guards / Lifeboaters or Paramedics on NSC??
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
Not sure about other services, but there are plenty in the military, some of whom will probably have experience gleaned from their time on OP Fresco.
Female nurses posting on NSC??
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I need more details
From BBC.co.uk:
"A 10-year-old girl has died, and five people including a six-year-old child are seriously injured, after a crash involving two cars.
The accident happened in torrential rain at about 1515 BST on Saturday on the A27 at Firle, East Sussex.
Police said a blue Renault and a silver Vauxhall were in collision, leaving six people trapped in the vehicles.
The girl suffered multiple injuries and died at Eastbourne District General Hospital. Police asked for witnesses.
'Conditions wet'
The six-year-old - believed to be a boy - and a man in his 50s were also taken to the Eastbourne hospital.
A woman in her 40s and a man in his 30s were taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.
A woman in her 30s, who was trapped for about an hour, was flown to the Brighton hospital by air ambulance.
A Sussex Ambulance Service spokeswoman said conditions were very wet, and ambulance crews had to work in torrential rain.
Forecasters said up to six millimetres of rain fell in the area between 1200 BST and 1800 BST.
Ambulance officer Glenn Borthwick said: "Having been in the ambulance service for 20 years, this was one of the most serious [crashes] I have attended."
"A 10-year-old girl has died, and five people including a six-year-old child are seriously injured, after a crash involving two cars.
The accident happened in torrential rain at about 1515 BST on Saturday on the A27 at Firle, East Sussex.
Police said a blue Renault and a silver Vauxhall were in collision, leaving six people trapped in the vehicles.
The girl suffered multiple injuries and died at Eastbourne District General Hospital. Police asked for witnesses.
'Conditions wet'
The six-year-old - believed to be a boy - and a man in his 50s were also taken to the Eastbourne hospital.
A woman in her 40s and a man in his 30s were taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.
A woman in her 30s, who was trapped for about an hour, was flown to the Brighton hospital by air ambulance.
A Sussex Ambulance Service spokeswoman said conditions were very wet, and ambulance crews had to work in torrential rain.
Forecasters said up to six millimetres of rain fell in the area between 1200 BST and 1800 BST.
Ambulance officer Glenn Borthwick said: "Having been in the ambulance service for 20 years, this was one of the most serious [crashes] I have attended."
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Re: Re: A27 closed between Lewes and Berwick.
I think you mean PICKY East Sussex if only you could afford it.
algie said:
I think you mean PICKY East Sussex if only you could afford it.