alt.uk.law

"Dr Zoidberg" wrote in message
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> "R. Mark Clayton" wrote in message
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>> Yesterday I was driving along the A6010 intermediate ring road in
>> Manchester.
>>
> Hundreds of thousands of pounds?
> Call it 300000 , at 60 quid a go = 5000 cars
> If it was there for 5 hours that's a thousand cars an hour.
> Two lane? ring road , so 500 cars per lane per hour , or 8.3 per minute ,
> or one every 7 seconds

It was there from ~07:00 until at least noon, probaly a full shift (8
hours).

so £200k / 60 / 8 = 400 cars per hour, about one very ten seconds.

>
> That would mean a high rate of traffic and virtually every car speeding.

Lucky guess - a purpose built dual carraigeway ring road.

There were two points really: -

1. Obviously a finance motived position.

have a look at: -
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=53.488103,-2.198419&spn=0.002815,0.006706&t=h&z=18

2. Three of the four fatal incidents on the road involved police vehicle and
one wasn't an accident.

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> Alex
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