Overall, 14,592 tickets were paid to Safer Roads Humber, which resulted in £1,084,920 revenue being collected by the Government. More than 26,400 people paid £95 to attend a speed awareness course, netting another £2,514,650 for Safer Roads Humber. • A1165 Stoneferry Road, Hull – 3,284 drivers(£238,000). • A614 at Holme On Spalding Moor – 2,539(£192,000). • A63 Daltry Street flyover, Hull – 2,287. • A614 at Thorpe Road in Howden – 2,229. • A1079 Bishop Burton – 1,402. • B1232 at Beverley Road, Hessle – 1,360. • A1035 at Hull Bridge Road, Beverley – 1,323. • Kingsgate, Bridlington – 1,320. • Spring Bank West, West Hull – 1,101. • B1230 at Newport – 767. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/10-s...tory-23051101-detail/story.html#ixzz3FSqT523k As someone who has recently been done for doing 34 in a 30 and 81 in a 70, I'd like to say **** off and do something constructive with your time, you ****ers.
I had to do a 'Speed Awareness' course in January this year. I can firstly say it was absolutely **** and nothing more than a cash cow. Two rooms both with about 30 people in each room and two sessions a day. just under £12k a day they'll have been making. My heinous crime was to hit the 34mph mark less than 200 yards from a dual carriageway. No residential properties within 200 metres of where I was caught. ****ers.
if you don't want fining, obey the law. it's like saying " I shouldn't be done for attempted murder, people don't win the nobel prize for ATTEMPTED chemistry, do they?"
Somebody might reply "don't break the law". Every single motorist knows the laws and what speeds they should be going. 81 is never legally permitted.
The problem is the law is wrong. If virtually every sane driver has broken this law on numerous occasions, (which is the fact of reality) whilst going about their normal everyday business and causing no harm to anyone, (and don't say they are because the amount of occasions a speed limit is broken whether detected or not is statistically unnoticeable compared to the amount of KSIs as a result), then quite simply the law is wrong.
People don't accidentally attempt to murder someone or accidentally attempt to win a Nobel prize do they...
So you're saying that when the authorities make a definitive ruling, the right thing to do is accept it gracefully and move on?
The 34 in a 30 was in South Cave, there's a bend as you come into the village where the speed limited changes from 60 to 40 to 30 within a few hundred yards and they hide on the edge of the bend and catch anyone who doesn't quite slow down in time. It's a ****s trick. As for doing 81 in a 70, it's what everyone does on a motorway and you'll never get stopped for it, you'll only ever get nicked by a camera and it's a ridiculously slow limit for a modern car anyway. We've had that limit since 1966, despite the fact that the stopping distance of a modern car is a quarter of that in a car in 1966.
Have you seen the differences betwee breaking distance on a wet motorway from 90mph to 70mph and the subsequent impact caused? You wouldnt be having this argument if someone you loved had been hit by a speeding car and the authorities tell you they might have survived if the car wasnt speeding.
Whoosh. You missed my point by about a thousand miles. Think about it - I was talking to Happy Tiger.
