Grade A knobhead. It's like when people in facebook groups post the location of mobile cameras. As far as I'm concerned if you're speeding you deserve to get fined.
Surely they are not just left unmanned. Why don't the policemen tell him to jog on. Anyway clearly this twit has nothing better to do.
Makes sense actually. It would sure give you a long time to sit and think about where it all went wrong if you were sat in the back of one of those vans with your clipboard.
As someone who drives 35-40k miles a year and sees these money making ****ers everywhere, I am a big fan of this guy.
I have. Many years ago on the way down to Whitby. They had just changed the speed limit from 70 to 50. The new 50 sign was placed just a few feet off a busy roundabout. Of course I was concentrating on getting around the roundabout and missed the new sign. Made my way up to 70 as usual only to get a fine in the post 2 weeks later. They had put a discreet camera just enough distance down the road to catch people doing 70. ****s. There was hell on about it - it even made its way onto the local news.
Speeding - an offence 99.99% of drivers commit. Key issue is a question of degree. 35mph in a 30mph limit is still speeding but is entirely different to 65mph in a 30mph area. Each case should be looked on on it’s own facts. Person above is a prat, plain and simple.
Around here, they made a fortune off motorists by putting a camera after the "end of roadworks" sign, but before the sign showing it had gone back to the National Speed limit. It was on a straight road, with no tun offs.
Don’t really care either way. Not how I’d spend my time but he is perfectly entitled to spend his day doing that if he pleases. Speed cameras don’t really bother me. People get too worked up.
Isn't there something cold, calculating and most of all, mechanical just pitching up in your speed camera van and then leaving it unmanned for three hours in order to catch motorists doing X mph over the speed limit? I think the overriding message of these cameras has become how many motorists were caught and how much money was raised rather than the more difficult to analyse figure of how many potential accidents were avoided by speeding motorists?
No it is not - a 2 year old would die in both examples if hit. Fed up as it is with how **** society has gotten but speeding is disgusting, smoking in a car is disgusting, using a phone in the car is disgusting, not indicating is disgusting. People have forgotten that driving a car/bike is to get from A to B, possibly via C. That is it!
I think the motorway, after 8pm should be at least 80. It boils my piss that on a clear stretch of the M1 with nothing on the roads I’m restricted to 70. I go to the fatherla... erm Germany quite a bit and on the A bahn you can drive unrestricted. Their accident record is no different to ours. The fact that Durham constabulary abandoned fixed cameras a while ago says it all. The chief constable went on record as saying he believed that fixed cameras didn’t help accident records. And he was proven right when they were removed. Wiltshire is the same. No fixed cameras.
The problem with motorway speed limits is that they were set when motorways were introduced back in the day. The cars we drive these days can quite easily do way over the current speed limit safely but are the people driving these cars capable of driving at higher speeds?
We’ll have to disagree on this point then. A 2yo may die if hit in either case but that, firstly, isn’t a guaranteed outcome and, secondly, the probability of that occurring is much greater at the higher speed in comparison to the lower speed. That, in any event, is only one factor in speeding. Control and likelihood of accident decrease and increase respectively with speed. Yes a 2yo may die if hit by a car travelling at 35mph but the outcome of an offence always has to be considered in the light of the intentions of the offender in committing the offence in the first place. The intentions of the driver travelling at 65 mph in a 30 mph zone show a much greater disregard to others than the driver travelling at 35 mph and for me, and as an aside the Law, commits a “worse” offence.
However more people are likely to do 35mph in a 30mph zone (unless any **** on here uses my road in which case the ****ers do do 60mph and the council won't do sod all). Speeding is speeding. Either way - there are just as many other problems on the road as well as speeding - Audi and BMW drivers for one!
