Are police driver's any better than the rest of us?

Over 3000 accidents lasy year alone, and thats the reported one's!

You can argue that police car's do a lot more miles than most drivers. But not all. How many sales rep companies clock up as many if not more miles, but less accidents?

Putting this aside, many of these accidents woudl result in you or me getting fined, points on our licence or at least a severe rollocking by any police officer that saw us.

I mean, pulling out of junctions without looking (careless or dangerous driving? driving without due care or attention?)

Reversing without looking? (as above)

Turning in the road without looking or indicating (as above yet again!)

And best of all, it doesn't affect their insurance, just the amount of tax we pay to help them (after all we fund them as part of our council tax - explains the huge increase doesn't it!)

Doesn't this make them a bit hypocritical when they pull us for the same things that they are doing?

road safety or cash income?

the latest 'safety' initiative is to reduce the speed limits on some of our nation's roads. The government is proposing reducing urban A roads from 60 to 50mph, and imposing a 20mph speed limit in towns / around schools. Around schools, yes that's great during school hour's / term time. But all the time? at 10pm? 2am? all through the summer holidays? And, they want to put the average speed camera's at all roads into n out of towns, timing every motorist and issuing speeding tickets! Surely this isn't safety more a way of making yet more money out of the hard pressed working population, without appearing to put taxes up? They say it's to reduce road deaths, but how many deaths are just caused by idiots who don't pay any attention when walking? we have all seen it, and nearly hit someone because of it - when they cross in stupid places, between parked car's, on blind bends etc, or just cross a side road without checking for turning traffic first! Educate these idiots instead of always blaming the poor person in the car!

School run driver's

Why is it that those people that are part of the school run brigade drive like total idiots. Maybe their driving is bad all the time, just made worse by the thought of having to get the kid(s) to school, or by the sheer volume of similar idiots on the road. Don't know what it is but they either drive really slowly, or really fast - nothing in-between! And the road/weather conditions make no difference to the speed! Add to this the rudeness and lack of consideration for any other road user's, with the way they drive, pull out of junctions / roundabout's and then park by the school. Why?