Speed Camera Detectors to be Banned!

So what are you pissing and moaning about then? Your own inability to
drive?

 

<yawn>

Wrong. As you would learn, if you could read.

 

Really? One of my colleagues at work got £500 for his pride and joy
competition Beretta. I think it was worth closer to 5k than 500.

There's always someone who knows how to make the system work.

 

This, sadly is true

Indeed. Trials may work, large scale roll out OTOH........

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The Reids raved thus:

:: all on pedestrian free low limit (30-40-50) dual carriageway. BTW
:: Road Angel flashes before blackspots, which I thought was a
:: gimmick but in practice I find it interesting to see where
:: accidents have been frequent, of course many are random bits of
:: high traffic volume motorway but others you can see where the
:: problem is.

Just out of morbid interest, do you see skidmarks, damaged barriers etc at
any of the sites?

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As yours demonstrates that some people are too stupid to drive.

 

Silk raved thus:

:: >What's up, don't you like
:: having to obey the law?
::
:: I'm assuming this particular fuckwit is a lawyer caught in the
:: crosspost.
::
:: He should stick to pushing his pen and leave the driving to the
:: experts.

lol

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Harry The Horse raved thus:

:: :::
::: It looks like you want to be identified as a fuckwit who has never
::: bothered to read the Highway Code.
:::
:: Yawn. A speednut writes.

Lol, you are the saddest person on Usenet. And that's saying something...

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you snipped the

", but with a proper value..."

at the end of my post

 

Hell, yes. If you don't then you aren't looking. I'm assuming that
you mean indicators of panic braking at camera sites in which case
I'll give you an example: There's a village called Beeston which is
bisected by the A1 in Bedfordshire. There's a camera looking for
transgressors of the 50mph limit at the start of the village (just
round a bend) and another camera at the end of the village. Very
often, there's a camera van in the middle of the village.

The cameras were erected just after a pedestrian footbridge was built
over the A1, which allowed safe passage from one side of the village
to the other. There were few if any skidmarks around Beeston on the
A1 before the cameras were installed. Now they have been active for a
while, it is normal to see fresh rubber overlaying the old, together
with clusters of tiny red and amber jewels, the fragments of tail
lights.

Much of the problem is caused by the "instinctive brake" driver, who
neither knows nor carse how fast he is travelling. He is likely down
to 50 anyway, as all the local and regular through traffic slows for
the cameras. Then Mr Instinct sees a camera and hits the brakes -
fairly hard, on occasion. Down from 50 to 30 he goes, and Mr Dozy
behind him locks horns and bumpers and rearranges both vehicles into a
bi-coloured, eight wheeled stretch limo.

It is a daily occurrence.

 

The one on the M42 southbound, in the roadworks near birmingham, that's
so close to the sign behind it I'm surpised they can get the box open.

 

It seems to be a concept that many people are unable to grasp.

 

Yeah, because you can still see the fucking big black and white camera
signs and those natty ones with a red border and a number in.

 

Which bear little relation to the actual locations of cameras.

Which have been known to be missing or obscured by vegetation.

And did you know that it is legally possible for a speed limit to change at
a point in the road without any sign at or near that point to inform drivers
of the change?

 

It is? How so? Genuine q
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Why?

 

Close enough. And they tell you it's a monitored stretch of road so
you can either keep to the limit or keep your eyes open. No great
hassle either way.

Shit happens.

Yes, and your eyes will tell you about that as well.

 

Absolutely. The Durham Chief Constable, Paul Garvin, deserves great credit
for having a more positive and constructive approach to road safety than the
speed camera enthusiasts, but he certainly has been swimming against the
tide.

I particularly like his policy of focussing on the younger drivers and
trying to help them to keep out of trouble. It is to be hoped that his
policy proves successful and that it will be taken up by other police areas.

More power to his elbow.

Best wishes all,
Dave - alias TripleS.

 

They should be, but some of them are just taking the piss. Almost all
the ones near us nowadays are set to 40, even when there are no
workmen anywhere near.

And why don't they make those limits variable, so that they are
whatever is deemed appropriate for worker safety when the workforce is
present, but only what is needed for traffic safety when no workforce
is present? (I know that on motorways working is often 24 hour, but on
other roads, it usually isn't).

Generally, I would agree, but even the 60 limit should not really just
be a set national limit. Single carriageway roads are just so variable
(remember, it applies to *all* single carriageway roads with no lower
limit in force) that there are very many where 60 is just stupid.

 

Presumably you haven't driven a 956cc Citroen Saxo then.