Driving in Caithness

[baggie boy]

Hi all,

As part of studies in HND Business, i have to do research skills.

I am researching whether the driving standards in Caithness are better or worse than anywhere else.

Could you please fill in the questionairre on the link below and let me know your thoughts.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MB5SVCP

Thanks in advance

Baggie boy

[Beat Bug]

Done!...........

[smithp]

Good topic to choose. There are idiot drivers everywhere, but the idiots in Caithness are the best!

[Even Chance]

Yer right. Its the ones doing 40/50mph everywhere that are the worst. Holding up long lines of traffic during the rush hours, and even doing the same speeds in 30 zones!

[Invisible]

Sadly enough I enjoyed filling out this questionnaire. I gave me the opportunity to vent frustration and put forward opinion without it being questioned or attacked.

[Beat Bug]

Any chance of a synopsis of the answers?

[sids]

Yer right. Its the ones doing 40/50mph everywhere that are the worst. Holding up long lines of traffic during the rush hours, and even doing the same speeds in 30 zones!

The worst are the ones who have high speed crashes.

[pmcd]

"Driving in Caithness" is perhaps a misnomer. "Aiming in Caithness" gives a better flavour of some road-hogging bottom-feeders throwing their tin chariots along the A9 at suicidal speed and with little regard for other road users.

[Koi]

Yer right. Its the ones doing 40/50mph everywhere that are the worst. Holding up long lines of traffic during the rush hours, and even doing the same speeds in 30 zones!

40mph is too slow unless weather conditions such as heavy snow etc make 40mph and below very necessary. I drive at 50mph on 60mph roads due to the fact i use alot less fuel at 50 than at 60. Don't have a lot of money to waste in fuel so i drive at the speed I do to ensure i get more miles to the gallan.
Too slow and too fast is what causes most accidents. They are both as bad as each other.
There are alot of people in caithness who should not be on the roads. Some I have no idea how the heck they passed their test in the first place.
When we get heavy snow here it will also weed out who can drive and who can't.

[Even Chance]

40mph is too slow unless weather conditions such as heavy snow etc make 40mph and below very necessary. I drive at 50mph on 60mph roads due to the fact i use alot less fuel at 50 than at 60. Don't have a lot of money to waste in fuel so i drive at the speed I do to ensure i get more miles to the gallan.
Too slow and too fast is what causes most accidents. They are both as bad as each other.
There are alot of people in caithness who should not be on the roads. Some I have no idea how the heck they passed their test in the first place.
When we get heavy snow here it will also weed out who can drive and who can't.

Dont agree there Im afraid. Your still holding up the flow of traffic and causing frustration. How many folk overtake you whilst on a regular trip I wonder? That can be dangerous in its own right. Have a look in yer mirror and see the line forming, then have a wee think to yourself. I know fuel is dear nowadays, but the difference in consumption between driving at 50, and 60 is marginal. At least I presume your one of the ones that slow down when you get to a 30 zone?

last week a white van pushed me through Watten at 30mph glued to my rear bumper, and was even wandering over the road as if to pass me! Yet when I accelerated back up to 60 again, they were just a speck in my mirror! Eejit!

[outsidethebox]

I think the biggest problem with drivers in Caithness is that folk that learn here and don't then do much driving elsewhere just have no concept of how to drive when there is other traffic on the roads.

In particular behaviour at road junctions is appalling. A little courtesy would go so far. When there are cars waiting to pull out of a junction, and you are waiting to pass that junction in a queue of traffic it will cost nothing to leave a gap for the cars wishing to pull out to drive into. Even if they happen to be waiting to turn your way and would then be in front of you it will still at worst cause you an extra second or two on your journey. Basic courtesy makes such a difference!