This is indeed a dangerous road. It is a winding two lane highway with many blind bends.

Over much of its length it is good for about 55mph maximum, less in a commercial vehicle.

However we now have too many drivers incapable of making this sort of assessment and controlling themselves.

While we all wait (too long) for vehicle automatronic control we have to be specially aware and ready to compensate for the dangerous drivers around us.

"On June 7, Paul Choat, 39, of Fordingbridge lost control of his Mercedes at Blashford near Ringwood and died. He had been drinking and speeding an inquest later heard"

Is there a type of road totally safe for this type of driver?

Development Advisor wrote:
This is indeed a dangerous road. It is a winding two lane highway with many blind bends.

Over much of its length it is good for about 55mph maximum, less in a commercial vehicle.

However we now have too many drivers incapable of making this sort of assessment and controlling themselves.

While we all wait (too long) for vehicle automatronic control we have to be specially aware and ready to compensate for the dangerous drivers around us.

Agreed. It is a tragedy that the person who pays with their life may not have been the one driving recklessly.

I used to live in Fordingbridge, and half the problem with this road is the drivers who remain at 30 in the 60 areas, regaurdless of suitible road conditions, which forces others to attempt to overtake.

ginger192 wrote:
I used to live in Fordingbridge, and half the problem with this road is the drivers who remain at 30 in the 60 areas, regaurdless of suitible road conditions, which forces others to attempt to overtake.

a kio rio done that damage to a bmw and before any one say it he was cut out,look at the front of each car and the chassis of the bmw.
i would say speed cameras are needed on this road

ginger the people who drive at 30 are lest chance of them causing an accident than those driving faster,and if you know this road well enough then you should know this is one road where the speed limit should be kept to 40mph max all the way along it

ginger192 wrote:
I used to live in Fordingbridge, and half the problem with this road is the drivers who remain at 30 in the 60 areas, regaurdless of suitible road conditions, which forces others to attempt to overtake.

Perhaps those driving at 30mph do not consider they would be safe driving faster - irrespective of what you consider suitable road conditions.

those that do not reguard the speed limit should be forced to take they're test again, so they are applicable to the actual road safety laws. you state the road should be 40mph max, i simply argue that it should be 40 mph max where the conditions allow. Most the corners are applicable even in the wet at 40, without straying onto incoming traffic. You must be going alot faster to do that.

Adrian Smith wrote:

ginger192 wrote: I used to live in Fordingbridge, and half the problem with this road is the drivers who remain at 30 in the 60 areas, regaurdless of suitible road conditions, which forces others to attempt to overtake.

Perhaps those driving at 30mph do not consider they would be safe driving faster - irrespective of what you consider suitable road conditions.

either your disputing my point, or repeating it... By suitible road conditions i mean any car driving by a responsible, sober adult, on a road which is not icey, or covered in oil should be able to maintain control of the vehicle.

ginger no mono road in the uk should be above 40mph,in this country is not large or flat enough to warrent to more than that,most people do not drive sports cars that are designed to hug and sit low on the road.i would prefere if some drive at 30mph and stay safer than a person driving at 60mph,the faster you go the more the likey hood,that you will be in a crash or the main cause of a crash, whitch happens to often being the cause of an accident,the faster you go the less you see what is happening and less time to react when you do,thers not many roads in the uk where there is a minimum speed limit,and where there is one look how it set up,its a long straight road with no juctions or drive way or farm tracks coming off it.

southy wrote:
ginger no mono road in the uk should be above 40mph,in this country is not large or flat enough to warrent to more than that,most people do not drive sports cars that are designed to hug and sit low on the road.i would prefere if some drive at 30mph and stay safer than a person driving at 60mph,the faster you go the more the likey hood,that you will be in a crash or the main cause of a crash, whitch happens to often being the cause of an accident,the faster you go the less you see what is happening and less time to react when you do,thers not many roads in the uk where there is a minimum speed limit,and where there is one look how it set up,its a long straight road with no juctions or drive way or farm tracks coming off it.

Southy, if you're really incapable of controlling a vehicle at over 40mph, anywhere other than a motorway, I suggest you cease to drive one

Plus, there is a lot of evidence that one is actually more alert at higher speeds than at lower speeds. Not that I'm saying driving fast is safer than driving slow, but the whole thing is not as cut-and-dried as you're making it out to be. Please, refrain from presenting a swathe of made up statistics to the contrary

it is cut and dry read the national insurance on pay outs,its all there for people to read,look at the number of insurance pays outs at each level of speed.there a lot less accidents at speeds lower than 40 mph when involving just cars than there is above
oh and Georgem i can handle cars at speeds just i dont push my luck,i know when to and when not to and the A338 is one of them roads you dont push your luck on theres to many hiden farm and driveways tracks on that road

southy wrote:
it is cut and dry read the national insurance on pay outs,its all there for people to read,look at the number of insurance pays outs at each level of speed.there a lot less accidents at speeds lower than 40 mph when involving just cars than there is above
oh and Georgem i can handle cars at speeds just i dont push my luck,i know when to and when not to and the A338 is one of them roads you dont push your luck on theres to many hiden farm and driveways tracks on that road

So now national insurance is relevant to this, is it? Well, in that case, I draw your attention to the clothes-pegs sales figures for last year. Just as relevant as NI

Southy, stop spouting rubbish. Not every single carriageway is a twisty, farm-land back road. Not even the ones en route to fictitious ice rinks in Poole. If you really know when to and when not to (exceed 40mph, presumably) and simultaneously know that you never should, then you're basically admitting you can't cope with speeds above 40mph. Get off the road, Southy, you're not up to the job!

what up Georgem you dont like real hard facts where you got to get out and look and you see a name of the servey company who collets this sort of data and publish it.its all there for any body to see i belive there is theres even a national accident web page for people to look at with the same sort of data.
if any body dont belive it then its a simple phone call to your car insurance people and ask them,to send you the info.the only reason i got this in info is because insurance companys are after my business because i got 30 plus years of accident free driving and had no claims againts me or have i made any.