New Speed Camera Information

FFS!!

Oldfart

 

So In a nutshell ??

 

And if that is successful, you find that you then have to pay a lot of sweetners to your local AK47 wielding warlord and his friends. They don't accept cheques.

 

Anyone fancy making up a guerrilla group with some plastic explosive?

 

Well that's me tagged at MI6 I guess.....

 

I hope they enjoy Pornhub.

 

not a bad ideal ripping of the number plate its the same offence as having a small number plate £100 fine no points

 

In my home state in the US, Tennessee, they have banned stand-alone speed cameras. The only cameras still up are traffic cameras at signal lights. These only issue a civil. citation which cannot reflect on your license points, insurance, and cannot be reported to credit for nonpayment. Essentially if you know this and get a nasty-gram in the mail you can tell them to feck off and toss it in the trash. They can’t collect, will send a few threatening letters, and can’t do a thing. They are relying on scaring people into paying.

 

Speed cameras (sorry safety cameras) always polarise views when people discuss them. As someone who has never been 'done' by one, I hate the f***king things. I don't think they improve safety one jot, but of course thats just my opinion. As long ago as the early noughties, there was a fixed camera on the M62 near Ferrybridge, through a roadworks section where the speed was limited to 50 mph for over a year it was there. I think it made the papers at the time for the first camera of its type to generate over £1 million in fines. I used to commute that way to work every day and most of the time there were no workers 'to protect' but of course the camera kept clicking away 24/7. Its true, if you don't break the limit you've got nothing to worry about, but who here can honestly hold their hands up and say they've never gone over the limit....ever?

 

Don’t understand some of you lot

Over the last few weeks there’s been people on here complaining about cars/vans speed all over the place and then when peeps go out themselves they get pull for speeding etc

If you get pulled for speeding or what ever grow some balls and admit you were in the wrong

 

I’m just saying I’m an adult and don’t need a nanny state spending tax money to wipe my arse and make me do the right thing. Most of these cameras do nothing for public safety, like having the presence of a living breathing officer would. A camera just collects revenue, an officer has opportunity to actually help someone in need. In the town nearest me they originally put up two speed traps and immediately fired two officers stating the cameras would provide adequate public safety. Tell that to the mum with kids in the car who has a breakdown and no one to call.

 

Whether cameras just collect revenue or not that’s not the point of my post.

One week we have peeps off here complaining about cars/vans flying around at excessive speed in the UK then when they go out on the road by the sounds of it they do just the same and then if they got caught complain.

 

Speed cameras are just a tax, there is no evading this fact. When they were introduced the Chief constables stated that they were not a replacement for traffic officers, just another tool. They reasoned that they could never replace traffic officers as they are trained to look for things other than plain speeding such as drug / drunk driving.
Fast forward to the present day, 2 reports out this year (stats from 2018, freedom of information requests by Dick Lovett)..
Number of speeding tickets issued in each UK region
1. Avon and Somerset Constabulary: 163,784
2. West Mercia Police: 90,203
3. Hampshire Constabulary: 73,220
4. Northumbria Police: 68,552
5. Kent Police: 64,179
6. West Yorkshire Police: 61,623
7. West Midlands Police: 57,394
8. Warwickshire Police: 53,894
9. Humberside Police: 53,628
10. Cheshire Constabulary: 53,000
11. Staffordshire Police: 48,634
12. Sussex Police: 48,335
13. Police Scotland: 47,948
14. Leicestershire Constabulary: 41,898
15. Cumbria Constabulary: 39,760
16. Essex Police: 32,706
17. Surrey Police: 30,161
18. Nottinghamshire Police: 23,797
19. Lancashire Constabulary: 21,190
20. North Wales Police: 20,404
21. Durham Constabulary: 19,838
22. Devon and Cornwall Police: 17,535
23. South Wales Police: 15,443
24. South Yorkshire Police: 15,134
25. Derbyshire Constabulary: 12,302
26. Cleveland Police: 11,924
27. Merseyside Police: 10,529
28. Dyfed-Powys Police: 1,677
29. Hertfordshire Constabulary: 992
30. Cambridgeshire Constabulary: 687
31. Wiltshire Police: 657
32. Bedfordshire Police: 254
33. Gwent Police: 135
This is actual tickets issued rather than a similar statistic published of speeding offences detected (A&S is over 199,000 of those)

Guess how many of the 163,784 Avon and Somerset tickets were issued by an actual Police Officer.........
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That is correct, not one.
You can pretty much assume that the vast majority of them were issued on the M5 / M4 interchange where there is a section of "smart" motorway. Having had to commute through there for a while it always struck me that four or five signs saying 60mph, then one saying 50mh, then back to 60mph with no apparent reason cannot be accidental. This happened most days of the week.

 

If you don’t want to pay the tax, don’t get caught. Simples

 

Firmly touching my table, i have never had a speeding fine, points or awareness course in 39 years of drving / riding

 

You must be Richard Brunstrom's bastard love child.

 

It is true that using speed camera does polaries opinion. For me it is simple, they do slow drivers/riders down and so imo do improve safety on the roads. It is easy if you are driving/riding in an unfamiliar location to get caught out, but the simple answer is pay attention and drive/ride within the limits. If you don't you have to accept the consequences ....

Edit: On the street where I live speeding is an every day occurance. On the very rare instances that the police do come and check using a speed gun, you get very few if any speeding cars....

 

Statement issued today by Greater Manchester Police:
Greater Manchester Police have warned of speeders ''using the quieter roads as their own personal racetrack" after a motorist drove at 115mph on a 40mph road.

How can anyone condone that sort of driving/riding.

 

Bet that took some thought