Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Two car-to-pavement accidents on GL on Friday
Scarily there were two separate car accidents on Green Lanes on Friday, both involving the vehicle mounting the pavement;
(1). Before 8am a car somehow managed to smash into the pedestrian lights on opp side of Effingham Rd (on Green Lanes). Two pupils from HSG were injured as the the pole (holding pedestrian lights) hit them.
(2). Before 10pm car somehow mounted pavement and smashed into doorway of upstairs accommodation, next to Snug cafe, opp St Anns Rd.
All very scary and somewhat odd.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Hey! Women too!!!
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on
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I've never seen a woman speeding dangerously up Green Lanes, but I'm happy to be proved wrong. It seems to me to be almost exclusively young men.
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Permalink Reply by andy h on
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i just walked passed a person (woman) chatting on her mobile phone while driving down green lanes, and have almost run over a couple of pedestrians on my bicycle when they've been crossing the road while talking on mobiles.
p-iss poor behavior is neither gender specific nor limited to a single mode of transport. See all the uber cyclists who jump lights.
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Well I was taking about dangerously fast driving.
As for cyclists, yesterday I nearly got run over by a guy riding on the pavement on a street with two-way segregated cycle lanes. He just laughed. It was terrifying.
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Poor behaviour is evenly spread but the consequences aren't.
That's why we all have the right to walk and cycle but we need a license to drive a car. Because it's so dangerous when done badly that we need to test people before we let them do it, and take that license away from people who don't meet the standards to pilot a machine that kills near other people.
Part of the standard is driving well enough to accommodate the idiots.
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A couple of times in the last six months I have been standing at the lights by Effingham Road only to very narrowly avoid being hit by a car speeding down the bus lane and completely ignoring the red light.
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There will soon be a 20 mph speed limit on most of Haringey's roads, including Green Lanes (though I can't find the start date). How about pushing for 20 mph speed cameras with an aggressive enforcement policy?
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Is there any where in London where the speed limit is enforced? Seems to me that traffic travels at the same speed as the vehicle in front so a 20mph limit will be of little use I fear. If someone wants to drive like an idiot they will do it whatever the speed limit.
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Islington (well the Met Police therein) started enforcing their 20mph limit with speeding tickets (previously 'words of advice') a couple of years ago, though how closely I don't know (check press reports). And within Hackney, the existing speed camera on Green Lanes southbound by Clissold Park now has new road markers, closer together, which suggests a recalibration from 30 mph to 20 mph.
As for Haringey, this was an item at the Transport Forum last October - according to that:
Community Speed (Road) Watch update
Council officers are in discussions with Met Police regarding proposals to undertake a joint launch of Community Road Watch programme, in conjunction with the implementation of the 20 mph speed limit, in mid February.Sat Nav companies have been contacted to update their network data bases.
Details of Community Speed watch set up requirements including speed gun calibration, volunteer recruitment and training, data collection criteria etc to be summarised in briefing. Enforcement will initially be a ‘stop and advised’ approach.
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If any drivers remain to be convinced about the need for 20mph limits in built up areas, they should try reading this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-day-i-hit-a-chil...
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It's quite interesting that most vehicles whether it be cars, bikes, mopeds or anything else, slow down for horses but when it comes to pedestrians a frightening number seem to want to frighten us at the least
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