Euro NCAP have released their findings on the safest cars that hit the market in 2011, with 5 manufacturers taking the plaudits as overall category winners.
Younger drivers simply don't care anymore because they've been brought up in a throwaway society. Have you ever seen some of the car chases on X box ? the young think it's just normal to smash things up, when it's broken just get a new one The Police don't help road safety at all because all they are interested in is speed cameras to boost their 'performance' revenue's, then spout off unrealistic guesstimate statisics to cover their backsides.
One of the safest cars i was driving!!! [as above] F...1.8d just under 3 years old two days ago been fully serviced cost £600.00. And was driving at around 01.00 am speed around 5 to 10mph as i was at the time turning right from a major road into a minor road another car coming from behind me on wrong side of the road wanting to overtake me had no lights on his little Golf travelling around 90mph as he was chased by police hit the rear door behind driver and my - safe car!!!! the frond passenger seat fell backwards for some unexplaint reason and left my partner with a broken spine and F... comp have no comment.
Can you tell me how safe is that?
CHASED BY POLICE--AGAIN high time this murderous practice was stopped
because the culprit does not care 2 hoots and what will he get when caught--
youve guessed it-----nothing and the poor victim suffers
You're on to something there Yorkie Bar.With the amount of cameras around the chased driver could have been followed by camera,then stopped in a safe place in a safe manner.As in any job there are good cops and bad cops.Some police enjoy the thrill of the chase,to hell with anyone who's in the way.
It does come down to how safe the driver is but that doesn't help when someone pulls out from a junction without looking! (I experienced this: It wrote off my car and despite my 7 years no claims, I still get penalised with higher premiums even though it was settled as a no fault accident (third party admitted obvious liability)).
Unfortunately 'statistics say' that 'the next accident' is more likely to be my fault so therefore I'm now tarnished with that faultless accident on my records for 5 years. Why is there an automatic assumption that there will be another accident?!
All I can say is in my particular area it is people of a certain race who are the worst. They are always the ones who do things like ignore the queue of people driving straight on in a filter lane and speed down the left turn filter lane then cut in, thinking they will save a heap of time then start making rude gestures when people don't let them in. It drives me so mad. Plus yes, boy racers aren't great either in their slow but noisy cars. Unfortunately any vehicle capable of more than 30mph is capable of causing death :(.
Sorry Shuffle but it's a "no-claim" discount not a "no-blame" one. Agreed, the insurers don't understand Bayes' Theorem but, now you've had a few thousand off them to replace your old car, don't be surprised when they set out to get some of it back. That's capitalism, comrade...
And I suggest, for your blood pressure's sake, just laugh at the 'push-in' merchants - especially if they fail at it. They look so funny, waving fingers as if that changed anything... they're muppets and we all know it. Give them a broad grin and wind *them* up for a change.
The safest cars on the road are those driven by drivers who are AWARE of who is behind them, what might come out in front & can see hazards before they are created! We don't OWN the roads we share them and consideration for other road users seems so often to be lost in the rush to get there - my journey is more important than yours? I don't think so!!!
I have two cars and neither have a NCAP rating, I can find crash test results for my 1996 honda, didn't do well. The other, a 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, can't find any information on crash tests or even if it was subject to any. But the reason I am a cautious driver is because I don't want to loose either of them through accident, seizure, towing or any other means. The Honda used to be my late grandfathers and took 7 years to get it back. The Cadillac: I have hard for it, spent a small fortune, its practically a pet. I don't want to loose either of them.
cars are only as good as the people driving them,and in my estimation there any many good safe drivers around these days,dont have patience not a minute to live,and the boy drivers are stupid sensless children with no road sense whatsoever..speed and noise is what they are after and hang the consequences until BANG! and then we get what wonderful persons they are or were,when they are dead and some other poor soul along with them..its not cars but people every time that need the tests for safety.
I was always taught to treat the car as if i was running through a shopping centre with a knife. You might not intend to kill someone, but by being reckless the potential increases.
I drive competently, and i don't think i'm a good driver, so i try to give enough distance (regardless of my speed), cover my break when using cruise control. I'm a company car driver, doing 35-40k per annum, and to complete that kind of mileage i need to do my checklist
- Don't drink more than 12 hours before getting behind the wheel
- Less Space, Less Speed
- If you get in the wrong lane, and you can't move into the correct lane, to carry on and correct yourself at the next junction
- and the one that people have difficulty with "Speed Cameras are put in place to control your speed where a fatality has happened!"
There will be loads more, bot they are all subliminal now.
i drive a renault senenic 5 door hatchback automatic reg 2006 had it from new i useuall change every three years but been hit from behind twice been hit twice on passager side twice apart from normal service etc had nothing repaired and now we are about to exchange my wifes car for another renault ( one up from the senenic even though my wife as on occasions left it running allday outside her office . i used to be a vauxhall man through and through but sorry love the easy drive of a renault. we have just done 103650 miles in a 2006 no problem
I've been living and driving in Spain for about 10 years and to be honest, if you want to be safe, get out the car and take a walk through the woods to your destination. There's no way to be safe on the road. I've just gotten used to it, being as I drive 400 km a week on the A-7 highway which is known locally as 'La Carretera de la Muerte' (Death Highway) for obvious reasons...
How exactly do they calculate this? Is it purely based on statistics: accidents, deaths in car etc? If so, maybe we ought to remember the adage lies, lies and damn statistics... Or is there a more scientific approach to calculating the safety of a car?
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