Speed limit

So what you're saying then is just because it hasn't happened yet that is okay. The idea of a speed limit is surely to prevent an accident not to respond to one IMHO

So what you're saying then is just because it hasn't happened yet that is okay. The idea of a speed limit is surely to prevent an accident not to respond to one IMHO

I cant see where I say that anywhere in my post......

Fair comment I guess I was responding to the implication in a few posts which seemed to me to be questioning the need for a limit because there hadn't been any speed related incidents

Fair comment I guess I was responding to the implication in a few posts which seemed to me to be questioning the need for a limit because there hadn't been any speed related incidents

There have been a few incidents on club sites but not sure if any were speed related.

We decided yesterday our last day in Norfolk,  to check out a large comercial  holiday camp complex we are going to for a music w/end in november with our c/van, on arr the main book in office advised we could drive round and please observe the 5mph speed limit on the whole site ,we saw the campsite warden, who also advised of the 5mph as he had just spoken to someone about it,but as he says we cannot be everywhere but do follow up if it is reported with the reg no ,but he says most of the time they only know about it when they get a report from the office via the visitor satisfaction survey

 

There have been a few incidents on club sites but not sure if any were speed related.

This is what I was trying to get at.  I am aware through work that a lot of speed enforcement on the public road network (camera vans) is supposedly based on the KSI statistics for a road or part of roads. Now obviously we want zero KSI's on club sites but a perceived important part of enforcement is evidencing to the public that the enforcement is neccasery. Similarly on club sites before wardens are diverted from other duties and sent round the site monitoring speed of members, what sort of actual problem is there?

I tend to favour traffic calming through the use of road markings, chicanes (although artificial obstructions will obviously cause problems with towed units), signage and also I think the "first gear" idea is better than simply saying  5mph as it is possibly easier for people to grasp. And I know people should be able to grasp the concept of any speed limit, but look on any 30mph road and you will see many don't.

Ah..... killed or seriously injured...

there was i thinking you were on about a Knight Companion of the Order of the Star of India....

In general, pitches are laid out with a minimum 6 meter gap between facing surfaces of adjacent habitation units. This could be generously taken as 2.5 meter wide caravan and 2.5 meter wide awning. This gives a total width of 11 meters which needs to be thought of as 36 feet since we do speed in imperial units.

Now the MAXIMUM speed -- not the TARGET speed -- of 5 mph is just under 7.5 feet per second, which works out that a vehicle should take just under 5 seconds to pass a pitch. 

Just about long enough for the driver to say out loud, "And the next caravan is a Bailey Ranger 21/20 2007 model." [or whatever it happens to be - or something about an unoccuped pitch]