Increased risk of injury on a rally?

I haven't witnesed this at all but where we have more than one row the vans are normally positioned so that the second row has them aligned with the gaps in the first row. This would make it quite difficult to navigate between them with a vehicle. It also provides a better outlook for the second row as they are not looking directly into the van in front.

I've never witnessed this, but I can certainly believe it.  There seems to be no limit on the ingenuity of a minority when it comes to being unreasonable.

Rallied extensively over the years never seen an accident, your more likely to have one on a CC site judging by the number of complaints on here about Speeding 

We don't rally, but I thought the idea of them was for people to get together, in particular the children. If this is the case, then surely a parking area at the entrance to the rally, where you would have to take your car once the van was positioned, would remove any risk. 

The problem with having parking away from the caravan is that some people seem unable to walk more than a few feet.  They even want to drive to the elsan point.  

With regards the spacing, there should be a minimum of 6 metres between caravan walls and at least 3 metres between any component of a particular outfit and the next one.  It seems that this requirement has not been conveyed sufficiently by some centres as we have recently rallied as visitors to a number of other centres and there are distinct variations in the way the spacing guidance is being applied.  The same problem is apparent with members attending rallies who are either not aware of or choose to disregard the need to only drive on roadways rather than through lines.

I haven't witnesed this at all but where we have more than one row the vans are normally positioned so that the second row has them aligned with the gaps in the first row. This would make it quite difficult to navigate between them with a vehicle. It also provides a better outlook for the second row as they are not looking directly into the van in front.

Andy. One of the rallies we attended recently was your Centres rally at Malton and i must say that this was one of the best laid out rallies we experienced during our tour of the north of England so well done to North Yorkshire.  Alan

I haven't witnesed this at all but where we have more than one row the vans are normally positioned so that the second row has them aligned with the gaps in the first row. This would make it quite difficult to navigate between them with a vehicle. It also provides a better outlook for the second row as they are not looking directly into the van in front.

Andy. One of the rallies we attended recently was your Centres rally at Malton and i must say that this was one of the best laid out rallies we experienced during our tour of the north of England so well done to North Yorkshire.  Alan

Sorry I didn't realise you were the visitors from Hampshire. Mind you, we were a touch busy having the 2 small grandchildren with us for the first time. At 2 & 4 they can certainly keep you busy so we didn't get around to talking to people as much as usual. Glad you enjoyed the rally, we did. I'll pass your comments on to our committee, I'm sure they will be pleased to hear that the centre is getting something right.

Sorry we missed you Andy.  Hope to meet up when we next venture north.  We joined a couple of the socials which were fun though not very well supported by others on the rally, probably due to the cold evenings.

On West Hampshire rallies everyone receives an attendance list so we can see who is on site.  It is useful to meet new rallies this way.  Some Centres do this and others simply have a list at the rally office for those who are interested.  It's also useful for new members so they can get to know others.  Perhaps other centres who don't do this at present could consider that idea?

Alan

On a recent East Hants rally same idea a list of ralliiers with names, car reg and what centre they were, as an East Yorkshire centre member we noted another member from our centre who we did not know and we were able to have a chat with them and it appeared both been members for years but we had not seen or remembered seeing each other. 

Sorry we missed you Andy.  Hope to meet up when we next venture north.  We joined a couple of the socials which were fun though not very well supported by others on the rally, probably due to the cold evenings.

On West Hampshire rallies everyone receives an attendance list so we can see who is on site.  It is useful to meet new rallies this way.  Some Centres do this and others simply have a list at the rally office for those who are interested.  It's also useful for new members so they can get to know others.  Perhaps other centres who don't do this at present could consider that idea?

Alan

We do normally attend the socials but were unable as the granddaughters had to be put to bed.

The idea of providing a list of members is not normally done at NY rallies although I have done so at some that I run. For some people it seems to be very welcome.

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