Yes, I know they are all about safety, to help keep speed
down on our roads and therefore help deter accidents, but I don’t really think
they do their job properly. Some – albeit ignorant drivers tend to drive over
the speed bumps at the same speed they would do normally anyway, and so things
are liable to fall off their cars and land in front of cars behind them, or
hitting pedestrians… things such as bumpers, exhausts and Indian Jones.
They are called Sleeping Policemen, too, but I am not really
sure why. They don’t look at all like policemen who are asleep (and in this day
and age, surely that should be Sleeping Police ‘Persons.’) In fact they are not
like policemen, police persons at all. Try reporting a crime to a sleeping
policeman! Mind you, who would want to, they are asleep! Ever seen one trying
to arrest someone? No, I think not.
Getting back to safety though, I do not really think they
serve their purpose well. I find that when you are driving over a speed bump
you are too busy looking at the bump rather than looking around at pedestrians
coming out onto the road, like children, OAPs and zebras. Whoever comes up with
such ideas (you know, some road engineer thingy guy, health and safety road
bloke) needs to have a rethink and start by getting rid of existing speed bumps
(starting with the ones on Lindale Gardens please) and put into place other
ways of keeping speeds down.
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