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10-08-19, 10:47 AM | #16 | |
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Nearly 75% of countries in the world require drivers to drive on the right side of traffic and tt is theorized that left-handed traffic began in the days of horse travel. The left-sided position but them at the advantage of having easy access to their sword with their right-handed in case of an enemy encounter. A list of left sided driving countries. Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Australia Bangladesh Barbados Bermuda Bhutan Botswana British Virgin Islands Brunei Cayman Islands Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cook Islands Cyprus Dominica East Timor Eswatini Falkland Islands Fiji Grenada Guernsey Guyana Hong Kong India Indonesia Ireland Isle of Man Jamaica Japan Jersey Kenya Kiribati Lesotho Macau Malawi Malaysia Maldives Malta Mauritius Mauritius Montserrat Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal New Zealand Niue Norfolk Island Pakistan Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Islands Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Seychelles Seychelles Singapore Solomon Islands South Africa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Sri Lanka Suriname Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Tuvalu U. S. Virgin Islands Uganda United Kingdom Zambia Zimbabwe https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...-the-left.html
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10-08-19, 11:24 AM | #17 | |
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It would appear she already has a previous driving conviction for “failure to pay full time and attention”
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10-08-19, 12:28 PM | #18 | |
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10-08-19, 12:33 PM | #19 |
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I sincerely hope so.
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10-08-19, 12:37 PM | #20 | |
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10-08-19, 01:10 PM | #21 |
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I'm thinking a conversion has been done to show the value of the fine to a British readership.
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10-08-19, 02:46 PM | #22 |
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I wonder if there was, as they say "alcohol involved"?
I understand that the Brits have little sense of humour about such things
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10-08-19, 03:51 PM | #23 | |
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Yeah and i've heard the right handed traffic began as a question; "What side of the road should we use?" The "Right Side" of course! But what is sad is that there was a time that a standard could have been instituted without any real inconvenience to either group, but now there's no fixing it without huge infrastructure changes and major major carnage.
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10-08-19, 04:46 PM | #24 |
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It might be a bad decision for the UK to change after this long.
The Swedes did that. http://realscandinavia.com/this-day-...tember-3-1967/
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10-09-19, 11:55 AM | #25 |
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I remember old friends and relatives telling me who chaotic it was the first couple of weeks.
I also remember a documentary on Swedish tv some years back The first 3-4 month or so there was an increase of incident(as mentioned in the article) But what the article forgot to mention, was that 5 or was it 10 years after this change of traffic, the scientist(don't know the correct English word) could see by comparing the statistic 5 or 10 years before the change a huge reduction of accident in the traffic. Markus |
10-09-19, 12:26 PM | #26 |
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it is an unfortunate situation, but no, I don't see the U.S. waiving diplomatic immunity over a traffic accident.
Diplomatic immunity is a fundamental pricinciple and exists so that a foreign country does not detain diplomats on bogus charges just to put pressure on the Diplomat's home country. Not saying the UK would do it, but once you establish a precedent, other countries will use it in the future. When I lived in Ottawa, the City government was always complaining about diplomatic vehicles (which were easy to identify because their cars all had red license plates), since they routinely ignored parking and traffic rules, ignoring all traffic tickets and often causing traffic jams or even accidents. The only recourse when a diplomat was really abusing the system was for the External Affairs department to complain to their host country and have them recalled.
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10-09-19, 05:05 PM | #27 |
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I think the issue is that this is not just a traffic accident, it was the killing of someone
Some other sources are claiming that this individual may not actually have diplomatic immunity. Something like this should be easy to determine. Diplomatic Immunity is like being pregnant. Either you have or you don't have Diplomatic Immunity depending on the credentials.
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10-10-19, 05:36 AM | #28 | |
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10-10-19, 01:30 PM | #29 |
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I hope her conscience is killing her right now, but with her leaving the country the way she did, she doesn't have a conscience. But you know what they say about Karma, it can come around and pay a visit to her too, wish I could be there when it happens.
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10-11-19, 07:17 AM | #30 |
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You and me both matey.
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