Anyone any ideas on how to stop our neighbour speeding on our road at a ridiculouse speed! It is a cul de sac with about a dozen houses, there are quite a few small children who tend to play out on the front and also quite a few people have cats & dogs. I feel it is just a matter of time before a child or animal is run over. This neighbour seems to have no regard for any of them. I would love to have speed ramps to slow him down. Everyone else drives really slowly.

hi there
we have the same problemwith somebody on our close
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joanne

Have you thought of pointing it out to him politely? Sometimes that's all that's needed!

Welcome to the forum BTW! :wave:

Try getting your vehicle and another neighbour to park almost opposite each other so that the speeder has to slow down to negotiate the tight gap between the parked vehicles.

Failing that have a quiet word with the offending driver to see if they realise how dangerous you think their speeding is to small children.


When that doesn't work, stick him/her one on the chin :rant:

Do all your neighbours think it's a problem? If so, maybe you should all get together and for a couple of days, park your cars on the road in a way that makes him have to slow down as he drives along. Just a couple of times should be enough, and if he asks someone to move their car then you could tell him why you've done it!
Or you could ask all of the neighbours (including Speedy Gonzales) to see if they think there is a problem with cars speeding on the road and say that you're thinking of seeing if the council can help to control it? That might just be enough to make him realise he's causing a problem!
Good luck!

Steal a baby scarecrow and dress it appropriately.

When the victim comes speeding round the corner quickly run into the road and place scarecrow.

I must emphasise the word "quickly" here.

Should teach him a lesson I think, but make sure your cars not parked anywhere near as he may slam right into the back of it making it a write off. Then you'd have 2 broken cars, 1 dead neighbour, 1 flat stolen baby scarecrow and a group of hacked off police wanting to know what you were doing placing stolen baby scarecrows in the middle of a road.

Easy way to deal with this moron,do you have a camcorder if so ,film the guy & threaten to report him to the Council & Police if he does not slow down.

try rolling a ball on to the road when you either hear him or see him coming. he may slam on the brakes thinking there is a child following or he may not...either way this is your oppertunity to go over and have a word...Gud luck

Welcome!
We have the same problem on our street, which is a dead-end. Unbelievably, the woman who is the worst culprit always speeds up the road with her kid sitting pretty in the back of her car. Grrr!!!

What I can tell you is that having an..erm..screaming match about it on the street after a hard day at work isn't a great option, lol. Not only do you feel the need to make it up afterwards, as you both have to live on the same street, but they will only continue doing it.

Once I have the time and energy, I am thinking of doing a little leaflet, as some people here have suggested, gently asking if people feel that some cars are going too fast on a road mainly used by children and dogs.
I am also considering the more measured and polite direct approach, lol, as I now know a couple of the culprits better, and I know they just haven't given it much thought cos they a)have no kids or pets, b)haven't had any of the kids or pets run out in front of them yet. They aren't actually ogres.

However, if silly moo in the blue car would like to slow it down a bit - yours aren't the only kids on the street!!! :rant:

Well if these problems are occuring on council estates it shouldn't be much trouble to get ASBOs slapped on the offenders. Then they only have to offend once and it's up to five years in clink :D

If you wait long enough the road will become pot-holed and never repaired that should slow him down. Sheffield citys councils cheap alternative to speed bumps.

Alternatively you could just accidentally on purpose place a childs toy in the middle of the road, so they have to slow down.

don't want to be devil's advocate here but if you live in a cul d sac like mine which is only 150 yards long.
the speed limit is 30 mph - and it may appear too fast for a small street.but excessive speeding over 150 yards takes quite some horse power.

i was just thinking that, is he speeding or does he just have a chaved up car that sounds like its going fast

Originally posted by willman
don't want to be devil's advocate here but if you live in a cul d sac like mine which is only 150 yards long.
the speed limit is 30 mph - and it may appear too fast for a small street.but excessive speeding over 150 yards takes quite some horse power.

your joking right. I think my car will probably hit 70 over 50 or 60 yards. Not that I use that ability except when joining the motorway.

but add the stopping distance!

I understand where you are coming from as i also live in a Cul-de-sac and all the neighbours drive slowly as kids do play out and do forget to look when running out. It's the visitors who we have to watch

If you know the person why not use someone else as an example and see if he responds to it. i.e 'Did you see that nutter drive down here yesterday at full speed and nearly hit one of the kids, it really should only be 15MPH on here as people dont realise that kids play out'

J Blaze that was a great response!!

I wouldn't want to defend anybody who drives badly/dangerously/selfishly, but are you sure that they are really driving all that fast? People often get the impression that people are going faster than they are. Especially when they are talking about more aggressive looking vehicles like motorcycles. Or noisy vehicles.

I would park my car on the street away from the curb to make the road more of an obstacle course, and try to invite the neighbours to do similar things. And maybe leave things on the road too. But nothing too large as small kids might be behind them. (e.g. wheeley bin)
Why not get a cardboard box (like one you would get crisps in) and write "slow children playing" on it, and weight it down with a brick leaving it in the road.

Originally posted by Cyclone
your joking right. I think my car will probably hit 70 over 50 or 60 yards. Not that I use that ability except when joining the motorway.

1 mile = 1760 yards.

Therefore, 1/4 of a mile = 440 yards.

An exteme performance car such as a Ferrari or Porsche willl do a 'standing quarter' (i.e. The time measured for the car to cover a quarter of a mile from a standing start) in about 12 seconds-ish, with a terminal speed of around 90mph.

The car will accelerate at a decreasing rate (i.e. it will accelerate harder in the first few gears than it will in the last few gears) and so speed gain curve is not linear, it looks like a segment of a circle.

This means the majority of the speed gain (accelerative force) is probably to 60mph which will occur in the first part of the curve, leaving a greater distance along the road to get to its terminal speed.

A 'seat of pants' estimate from me will have the car reaching 60 by around 150 yards (4 or so seconds) leaving the remaing 290 yards to be covered in 8 seconds or thereabouts as the car is travelling at greater speed.

A car travelling at 90mph will cover a mile in 40 seconds. Therefore it should cover 290 yards in around 6.5 seconds, adding a second and half to the above figure to get 8 for the speed difference as the car accelerates to 90mph.

I would have done the figures for a Ford Escort or something but I could only find the standing quarter times for performance cars online easily.

In conclusion, in a standard car with around 1/4 of the horsepower of a Ferrari or whatever, you'll be lucky to be going faster than 35 or so in 70 yards.

If someone *really* wants me to I'll dig out some proper figures and we can do the math.

Originally posted by ADC_28
1 mile = 1760 yards.

Therefore, 1/4 of a mile = 440 yards.

An exteme performance car such as a Ferrari or Porsche willl do a 'standing quarter' (i.e. The time measured for the car to cover a quarter of a mile from a standing start) in about 12 seconds-ish, with a terminal speed of around 90mph.

The car will accelerate at a decreasing rate (i.e. it will accelerate harder in the first few gears than it will in the last few gears) and so speed gain curve is not linear, it looks like a segment of a circle.

This means the majority of the speed gain (accelerative force) is probably to 60mph which will occur in the first part of the curve, leaving a greater distance along the road to get to its terminal speed.

A 'seat of pants' estimate from me will have the car reaching 60 by around 150 yards (4 or so seconds) leaving the remaing 290 yards to be covered in 8 seconds or thereabouts as the car is travelling at greater speed.

A car travelling at 90mph will cover a mile in 40 seconds. Therefore it should cover 290 yards in around 6.5 seconds, adding a second and half to the above figure to get 8 for the speed difference as the car accelerates to 90mph.

I would have done the figures for a Ford Escort or something but I could only find the standing quarter times for performance cars online easily.

In conclusion, in a standard car with around 1/4 of the horsepower of a Ferrari or whatever, you'll be lucky to be going faster than 35 or so in 70 yards.

If someone *really* wants me to I'll dig out some proper figures and we can do the math.

fair enough, I stand corrected.
You've peaked my interest now.

My car does 0 - 60 in 8.2 s.
Since that's still in 2nd gear I'll assume linear acceleration.

s=ut+1/2att
s=0+33.62a

v=at
a=v/t
a=26.82/8.2
a=3.27

s=33.62*3.27
s=110

so my car reaches 60 mph in 110 metres

So my estimate was rather optimistic, but it has another 40m to gain another 10 mph. That's about 1.5 s (slightly less), so requires an acceleration of 2.98 m/s, probably just about doable.

****If someone *really* wants me to I'll dig out some proper figures and we can do the math.****



Don't you get out much?

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
****If someone *really* wants me to I'll dig out some proper figures and we can do the math.****



Don't you get out much?

I'm an academic. So no.

but don't forget the earlier comment referred to yards therefore the calculations using metres are not directly comparable. assuming 150 yard directly related to metres @ -3 inches would decrease the distance covered by almost 13 metres.

only joking but as a maths graduate thought i ought to bring it up.

one large raw state potatoe, one offending neighbours exhaust pipe.

I have a similar problem, so if anyone does find a workable solution let me know!

J-Blaze, love the scarecrow thing!

Wait until the next time he's out of the car and crossing the road, then rev up your engine and get your foot down.

Lets see how fast he is on foot.:hihi:

A 'stinger' or 'caltrops' always worked for me ;-)

What a coincidence! I had a dream the other night that lots of trees had been planted in my road to make it more like an obstacle course to slow down the traffic :heyhey:

Originally posted by bigflesh
one large raw state potatoe, one offending neighbours exhaust pipe.
hehehe
or you could try the 'ol "see how far they get without any tires trick"

Wait while car is parked up for the night..A couple of hefty lads put the offending vehicle on its roof ...:rolleyes: Works wonders:hihi: :wink:

How's about gathering a few items of roadkill (not a nice task I admit) and plastering them to the offender's windscreen with a 'it could be you next speedfreak' message attached.

We lived on a circular road in a holiday area. Just after Christmas (summer holidays in Oz) a youth with a sports car was doing laps of the circle at high speed. We (from 3 houses in the road) lined up across the road and he had to stop.
"Now, lad, it was really good of Santa to bring you this lovely Xmas Pressy, but this is a road where kids ride bikes and cross to the park. If you want to see how it performs, get off to the highway and try it out there"
He went without a word, and did no more speed laps.
Only after he'd gone did I turn round to see a group of really big blokes who'd come out to back us up

gets lots of farmyard animals and as he comes speeding up the road, lead them all across so he has to stop
do it 3 or 4 times and he should start slowing down

:)

Just go up to the guy and just say 'Aay up pal do yer mind keepin speed darn there's little-en's on here' that's all it take's if he or she start's mouth-in report them there and then to the police as you stand next to them and if the culprit is one of these that will make revenge attack's PUNCH HIS LIGHT'S OUT or HER'S

Glynn

Why not get yourself a high visibility jacket and stand at the side of the road?