Please use your indicators

11:40am Thursday 9th August 2012 in News By Reader letter

I am sick of crossing over St Helens roads only to find a driver whizzing around the corner with no indicator!

The amount of wasted lives and qualities of lives are rising because of road traffic accidents. So please drivers of St Helens (In this I am also including Arriva Bus Drivers and Black Cab Drivers, who have all fallen to this!) please, next time you want to turn the corner please turn on your little blinky orange light because next time it could be you, or a member of your family lying in a hospital bed.

From a victim of a road accident because of failure to use the indicator.

Jade Gerrard, Singleton Avenue, Blackbrook

Comments(20)

ninjababe says...
9:34am Sun 12 Aug 12

not bothered these days about indicating, maybe the government should make them take tests and refresher courses if caught or have an accident

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Not Bothered says...
1:35pm Sun 12 Aug 12

The Highway Code states that drivers give precedence to pedestrians who are crossing at road junctions if pedestrians are already in the course of crossing, the driver has the responsibility to make sure the road is clear before turning.

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pitbullboxing says...
4:11pm Sun 12 Aug 12

Just further evidence of our moral decline I'm afraid.

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moonman77 says...
8:18pm Sun 12 Aug 12

The only trouble with indicators is that they only work now and then.

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Not Bothered says...
8:22pm Sun 12 Aug 12

moonman77 wrote:
The only trouble with indicators is that they only work now and then.
The old ones are the best, first heard that one in the 1950's

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PM says...
11:41am Tue 14 Aug 12

lack of indicators is as much a hazard for other drivers as it is for pedestrians.Taxi drivers obviously have their indicators disabled as soon as they aquire the license .

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kjd161 says...
11:45am Tue 14 Aug 12

Nail 'em up I say. Nail some sense into 'em. ( Monty Python).

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chunkymunky says...
7:02am Wed 15 Aug 12

I believe they don't bother putting them on any audi's anymore!

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domformula1 says...
12:50pm Wed 15 Aug 12

Police should step up their enforcement of standards of driving, not just speeding. Tailgating, failure to signal etc all cause accidents as well and seem to largely go unpunished. The biggest issue with driving is laziness, the taxi driver who gets behind you and accelerates until YOU slow down and set his speed for him, the lorry driver who won't let you out onto the motorway because he doesn't want to have to shift down, the driver who can't be bothered to lift a finger to activate the indicator, it's all laziness-driven, they know full well the standard expected, they just can't be bothered

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papyt says...
5:59pm Wed 15 Aug 12

why not walk a few extra yards and use a pedestrian crossing,the traffic indicators on vehicles are to indicate to other ROAD users intent to make a maneuver NOT to tell someone at the side of the road what they intend to do.

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ninjababe says...
10:35am Thu 16 Aug 12

dear papyt, if you are a driver then you know nothing of the highway code as it stipulates in there that indicators are to be used even for pedestrians if you are not a driver i suggest you check your info before commenting
Signals (103-112)

103
Signals warn and inform other road users, including pedestrians (see 'Signals to other road users'), of your intended actions.

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Not Bothered says...
10:44am Thu 16 Aug 12

papyt wrote:
why not walk a few extra yards and use a pedestrian crossing,the traffic indicators on vehicles are to indicate to other ROAD users intent to make a maneuver NOT to tell someone at the side of the road what they intend to do.
Pedestrians are road users, the highway is from hedgerow to hedgerow and pedestrians have rights also.

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papyt says...
10:01am Fri 17 Aug 12

i stand corrected!!! but that still doesnt answer why pedestrians EXPECT cars to stop or to slow down and let them cross the road,use the facilities provided to safly cross the road and NEVER assume a car will stop.

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cbol82 says...
10:28am Fri 17 Aug 12

papyt wrote:
i stand corrected!!! but that still doesnt answer why pedestrians EXPECT cars to stop or to slow down and let them cross the road,use the facilities provided to safly cross the road and NEVER assume a car will stop.
In an ideal world there would be facilities provided to cross roads safely on ALL streets, it is ludicrous to comment that people should walk a few extra steps to the pedestrian crossing when only a handful of streets actually have these facilities! I challenge you to find any housing estate in the borough that has any type of pedestrian crossings - in you opinion we'd all be walking round in circles never being able to cross the road!!
I'm a driver AND a pedestrian so have no bias towards one or the other

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cbol82 says...
11:38am Fri 17 Aug 12

Just to clarify my point here, if I wanted to walk to see my neighbour across the street from me but were not allowed to cross any roads without using a designated pedestrian crossing I would have to walk about 10 miles round trip. I might as well add a few extra miles on there for fun and do a half marathon while I'm at it!

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papyt says...
8:43pm Fri 17 Aug 12

cbol82 i do not wish to be unkind to you but as an adult if you cant safly walk accross a road with out getting run over then im sorry but maybe you should stay in,can anyone name me one road that is immpossible to cross in this town IF you are patient and let the road be clear of traffic?

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cbol82 says...
10:44pm Sat 18 Aug 12

papyt wrote:
cbol82 i do not wish to be unkind to you but as an adult if you cant safly walk accross a road with out getting run over then im sorry but maybe you should stay in,can anyone name me one road that is immpossible to cross in this town IF you are patient and let the road be clear of traffic?
I can cross the road safely but it is you who has stated that people should walk to use the pedestrian crossings and use the facilities provided to safely cross roads. I was simply pointing out that only a handful of road have such facillities! You don't know where this woman was knocked over so how can you assume she was able to use such crossings?!

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norm says...
12:44pm Sun 19 Aug 12

'I am sick of crossing over St Helens roads only to find a driver whizzing around the corner with no indicator!'
With reference to the original letter, I don't see that using indicators or not would make much difference to any pedestrian stepping out infront of a car "whizzing" round a corner. But, yes, there are some maniac drivers about that think they are on a race track, particularly turning in from Blackbrook Road and up Ashurst Drive.

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papyt says...
4:41pm Sun 19 Aug 12

norm,does this junction NOT have at least 4 crossing points all controlled with lights? so i have no sympathy if the lights tell you not to cross dont cross.

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norm says...
10:34pm Wed 22 Aug 12

Totally agree with you papyt. I've no sympathy either with folk who don't use the facilities in place - and don't get me started on mothers who hover with babies in buggies jutting out over the edges of curbs while waiting to cross.

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