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The penalties under the British Highway Code (which applies to England, Wales and Scotland, but not Northern Ireland) should be toughened up so that dangerous driving causing bodily harm merits a maximum sentence of 10 years (the same amount as the Criminal Code of Canada's Section 249(3) gives j...

@wachman: Well-written traffic laws are necessary to deter motorists from all sorts of avoidable driving behaviours, among them: speeding; aggressive driving; dangerous driving; distracted driving; and impaired driving. It so happens one trucker in England, when stopped by police for using a han...

@horseitout15: In at least some American states, it is. It's dangerous to use a handheld phone while driving, whether to text or to make a phone call. It's too bad far too many people disregard this basic fact until it's too late.

@CJW921983: The DUI featured in the video is a felony. Initially, the victim is taken to hospital, with his being grievously injured, but subsequently dies. The British Crown Prosecution Service put out guidelines for sentencing for convictions for dangerous and impaired driving causing death. ...

@gundamWWW: Rae's new party, let's not forget, voted WITH the Harper Conservatives on many bills during Conservative minority rule. In May's federal election, voters kicked the Liberals off the Official Opposition benches, and into a corner of the House, and Michael Ignatieff out of Stornoway. ...

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Clarkson: It was just over a mile from the hitching point to the Alpine course,

but that was enough to give us a taste of what it's like to be a real lorry-driver.

For starters, there's the sheer number of gears.

First, into first and a half.

May: Second.

Hammon...

@jta4jesus: Traffic laws covering the UK proper are tough on impaired drivers who kill others, while Northern Irish traffic laws also come down hard on impaired drivers who maim others. This is whether such drivers are convicted of impaired driving causing death or convicted on each of impaired ...

@beloslav: Dr. Phil put it bluntly in an episode on texting and driving (available on Youtube): "Are you [to a young texter with a dirty driving record 4 months after getting her full licence] that arrogant and self-absorbed that you would say, even with that driving record, I'm going to continue...

The "No Seatbelt, No Excuse" PSA, probably from Northern Ireland, is translated into Hebrew, perhaps to show to Israeli youth to encourage them to buckle up. It's somewhere in the middle of the string of videos. Why the series is named "Never drink & drive - The Worst of The Worst," when some o...

The UK has tough laws when it comes to excessive speeding. The type of speeding certainly warrants the penalties that British courts levy on convicted dangerous drivers: minimum 12-month ban and an order to sit an extended driving test (about 70 minutes long) to drive unsupervised. The driver o...

Some Canadian provinces have mandatory ignition interlock laws. New York, however, could use what UK traffic law calls High Risk Offenders (convicted drunk drivers who, within the past 10 years, have been convicted at least twice of that offence or of at least once of blowing at least 0.20). Dr...

It's time to bring a British-style extended driving test to NY state. British traffic law mandates such a test for convictions for impaired driving causing death. Northern Irish traffic law imposes the same penalty for local licence holders convicted of impaired driving causing grievous bodily ...

@barreltrollololol: Vocational drivers with a licence issued in the UK proper, while driving there, are subject to a 14-day suspension of their vocational licences after being summoned to a driver conduct hearing. Tough penalties like these are needed to try to control the conduct of drivers of ...

A caption in the video says that downshifting while going uphill is a good idea. Jeremy Clarkson, during a Top Gear tractor-trailer race, seems to be leading in the race, but then: "Unfortunately in all the excitement, I forgot to change down for the steep hill. No! No! It's dying on me. No! No! ...

As part of the Leyland Challenge series of episodes of Top Gear, Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson are asked to park their manual transmission cars on a hill with a 33 1/3% incline. May parks his car on the hill and, after applying the handbrake, the car stays where it is. Hammond ...

@NS13Guardian: The Brits have a driving offence that incorporates "careless driving" into its name: causing death by careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs. Northern Ireland goes further: causing death, or grievous bodily injury, by careless driving when under the influence of dr...

The narrator of this video remarks that downshifting when going uphill makes it less likely a car will stall. Jeremy Clarkson, during a Top Gear tractor-trailer race, seems to be leading in the race, but then: "Unfortunately in all the excitement, I forgot to change down for the steep hill. No! ...

Melissa Arrington, had she been a holder of a UK proper driving licence, would have been classified as a high-risk offender, given that she'd been convicted of 2 DUIs less than 10 years apart (and been required to provide a medical report to prove she was fit to drive). Given that she killed ano...

@DJControllerC: It's a good question, indeed. A lot of European countries have more widespread public transportation than in the US. Yet the US has some of the lightest penalties for DUI, while the UK proper has some of the toughest (e.g., for the latter, a mandatory minimum disqualification of...

Ukraine's parliament is very broken. Yet in my homeland, Canada, the worst that happens in the House of Commons, its equivalent to Ukraine's parliament, is shouting by politicians (whether opposition or government ones). Those parliamentarians who used their fists should be ashamed of themselve...

In the video "'Learn To Drive' by Ray D'Arcy (Part 2 of 4)," Niall, a driving instructor, remarks: "The main mistakes when overtaking [a stationary vehicle] are: not allowing enough clearance between you and the vehicle you are passing, and misjudging distance and speed of oncoming vehicles." Th...

@wainber1: In my previous post, I quoted a remark about how a semi-truck can roll backwards if its handbrake isn't used. Jeremy Clarkson said that remark, replying to James May's about the "2 feet" remark.

In Northern Ireland, add "Mandatory repeat of learner driver stage, with knowledge and road tests." That's what its Driver and Vehicle Agency requires locally-licenced motorists to do if the driver's convicted or pleads guilty to driving drunk, and committed the drunk driving offence in the UK p...

Another video that emphasizes observation on uphill starts is "Driving Lesson Up hill Start," although that video emphasizes driving a right-hand drive manual transmission car (likely from England).

@kingdomofdalriada: I understand the feeling you may have for Canada to break its relationship with the monarch. There are monarchies, particularly in the Arab world, that are badly run. Many, if not all, of those countries are dictatorships. I don't like their being monarchies not because the...

Romilly Weeks of ITN made a point about the inevitability Australia would become a republic. If and when that country does, it'll be important for Australia's government to learn the lessons of how badly many of the other republics have been run. It may be preferable, for instance, for Ukrainia...

I wonder what people driving British, Irish or Cypriot RHD cars do when they try to park such cars in a Continental European parking garage, particularly if they don't have a front-seat passenger with them. Or what drivers of LHD cars do when they try to park such cars in a British, Irish or Cyp...

@MasterDonny1: It's likely the licence holder would have to apply to have the condition removed. A DUI conviction is still a black mark, even after it disappears from a driving record, because it's a criminal offence. In Canada, a criminal record is for life, and there are only certain offences...

@sholao: In response to your question "How serious are you about learning to drive and passing your driving test?", the learner driver in the YouTube video "Dumb blonde taking a driving lesson (SUBTITLED)" (in Polish with English subtitles) clearly isn't serious enough about learning to drive. H...