That said I firmly believe that I should not have to keep paying more and more for my insurance if I’m a safe and careful driver while some individuals are driving and riding around like lunatics. Insurance companies should demand that anyone insuring or reinsuring their vehicles MUST provide them with a list of all traffic convictions during the previous year (when re-insuring) and they should have the right to view Court records.

SPENCE FAMILY

My most absolute and sincere apologies if it does turn out that he was in fact simply a nice boy who was on his way to deliver hot meals to elderly shut-ins and just as he was about to cross the causeway, the evil car driver crossed the line in order to ram him and then dragged everything over to the westbound lane to stage the “accident” for all the witnesses/police/etc

Claiming a miracle for both my cousin and his friend…

Love you like life baby!!!

Need you back before the season kicks off so I can tease you about your dumb team!

Seriously, by going 35k I can save someones life because I CAN stop when they don’t have a space in traffic to nip back into, then they would only hit me with whatever speed they couldn’t control. However I have “pinched” a bike between me and the truck in front when two guys on a bike “nipped” from outside to the inside by going between up at speed in traffic. When the truck pulled ahead they just fell over, got back up and took off, guess they were worried someone might have seen them…and laughed.

That is also a very good idea about insurance companies. People should not have to pay more due to a select set of individuals.

Technnically forgot to mention that at our speeds we’re nowhere near in the torque band of the engine specs to get decent mileage. If you could maintain 40k on a level for miles at a stretch you would get halfway decent mileage , but with our conditions that’s virtually impossible. It’s non stop on and off the gas pedal one hill after another.. not conducive to fuel efficiency at all.

And @ IRATE FAMILIA .. everyday life must be a painful experience for you..you know ..surrounded by all that ‘reality sh*t’ .. Grow up !

The speed LIMIT in this country is 35kph. It does vary in parts of the island but only to go down. Argue about it all you like, it is black and white in the Road Traffic Act:
http://www.bermudalaws.bm/Laws/Consolidated%20Laws/Road%20Traffic%20Act%201947.pdf

If someone is driving at me on the wrong side of the road why should I be forced to drive closer to the side? They need to get their butt back over the line, I’m not going to drive into the wall because they need to overtake twenty cars.

I am not a cop but I do call the police and report serious driving offenses and dangerous driving when I see it, as should all.

@someguy wake up and smell the spilled gas and blood in the road. We have never in our history had as many road deaths as in the last decade. I have witnessed more than enough accidents and deaths on our roads first hand, been there. Anyone going over 35k is speeding and accidents at lowers speeds are generally far less severe and less fatal. If some jackass flies past me doing 70k, twice my speed, and hits an oncoming vehicle in the opposite lane on a blind corner it has nothing to do with me but that same rider could have put my life or one of my family members lives at risk and you want me to feel sorry for them? For the innocent victims yes by all means, but if they use their vehicle like a weapon and hurt others or kill themselves then they might just as well have used a shotgun.

@Billy M I can only enforce the traffic laws on myself by adhering to the legal speed limit and maintaining a safe mode of driving in my lane, what is the problem? I have no problem coming to an abrupt stop if needed while going 35k. I’m not the one driving in the wrong lane in the opposite direction to traffic, and the police really do need to get on with enforcing this a lot more.

“Bermuda’s road death rate is six times worse than the UK’s, according to Road Safety Officer David Minors.”

“He said measures to address the problem must include enforcement and responsibility for personal driving habits. “All we ask is that you remember that all you need to do to change the chaos on our roads is simply to control you,” he added.”

If you want a real answer to reducing serious accidents and fatalities on our roads how about this one. There should be a system set up between the Courts and the Insurance companies making it mandatory for ALL speeding offences, and all offences such as careless driving, dangerous driving, death by dangerous driving, driving while impaired, refusing to take the alco-analyzer test, driving while using a mobile phone etc., to be reported to the insurance company of the convicted offender. The Insurance Companies should then set strict rules about what offences will result in cancellation of the insurance policy for the vehicle, and also about increases in the insurance company rates for offenders who continually commit traffic offences. I should not be required to pay extra premiums because a select group of idiots are driving around like crazy!

REAL TALK ‘BDA PPL R SO SPECIAL’

REAL TALK ‘BDA PPL R SO SPECIAL’

I bet though , that it would just result in ‘open season’ for the numerous idiots who are already out of control.
‘Honessly misssa policeman ..I thought I was still in a 70k zone …’ etc

It could be a usefull , maybe even practical piece of legislation , but it would probably be the reverse of that dumb , poorly thought out ’5kt no wake law’ of many years back . Technically you’re breaking the law if you’re on plane 50 yards off of North Rock or in the seaways off of the west end.

In fact the slower we drive here , the more gas we use .. In a way.

Because of our speed limit and topography we’re always stuck in ‘city mode’ driving. On the throttle , off the throttle , brake , repeat ad nauseum.

If we could maintain a steady , say , 60kph for the duration of our journey we’d get much better mileage than 35-40 where your engine is always working to overcome hills ,etc , just to keep the car’s momentum up .

Now , back to topic …

i literally saved a guy’s life a few years ago by slamming brakes when he overtook on the inside of me- i would’ve hit him head on and catapaulted him into an oncoming truck. when i laid on the horn he got mad at me. i saw him later up the road and explained how i saved his life. he laughed at me and said: “i’m a RIDER, i know what i’m doing!” the sad thing is, this idiot actually believed he avoided death because he was a capable and competent ‘rider’. nah boss- if it wasn’t for me, EMTs would’ve been shoveling bits and pieces of him off the road. and he was not a teenager- this was an older man in his 40s.

i value human life but i’m sorry- i will not speed up to prevent stupid overtakers from being able to swing in…..but i will drive my car as normal. if these idiots choose to put their lives at risk and roll the dice, it is THEIR FAULT and their fault ONLY if they lose their life taking such stupid chances on the roads. everyone is responsible for their own life and it’s ridiculous to blame others for these fools recklessness.

Just cruise at 35-40k and get there when you get there, when you pass me you will just be getting to the next stop in traffic a little ahead of me when I roll up behind you and see you stopped there. Yes I can see you driving that massive SUV in my rear view and you freaking out because I’m going so slow, that is when I slow down even more to just 35k when I KNOW you can’t pass me. Slow down and save some gas. Oh, and I’m that guy who drives close enough to the line to make you third lane drivers have to duck back into your lane, yes I see you every morning. If you are one of the ones on bikes zipping through traffic doing 60+k and then get slammed don’t think I’m going to feel sorry for you, you are playing with your life and if you kill yourself that is called suicide.

That and just indiscriminately using the cell phone … It’s supremely dumb but if common sense doesn’t dictate it , it’s already against the law.

Probably didn’t have anything to do with this crash , but leave the damn cell phone alone ! It’s more than likely responsible for more accidents than driving under the influence (and that includes the influence of drugs too).