Third speeding ticket in six months!!

[Paddy]

You'd have to do a comparison with a baseline period before each camera was installed. These figures are collected and guess what they show?

http://www.slower-speeds.org.uk/files/10myths031220.pdf

It says sweet FA other than making sweeping statements.

[d000hg]

Dear Stek,

why not change your speedo to show in Kph instead of mph, thereby giving you a much wider margin for error when moving your gaze away from the dashboard?

HTH.

[sasguru]

So to summarise loads of bollux on this thread, Stek is a cretin who can't do something as simple as keep to the limit or at least play the system. I speed all the time when its safe especially on a motorway in good conditions, but I keep to the speed limit in built up areas. The limit is there for a reason.

[AtW]

I speed all the time when its safe especially on a motorway in good conditions, but I keep to the speed limit in built up areas.

I can only pray that your driving skills are better than your spelling ...

[EternalOptimist]

I can only pray that your driving skills are better than your spelling ...

mmmm, I tried hard. but I couldn't find anything wrong with his spelling...

[pjclarke]

It says sweet FA other than making sweeping statements.

Like this one?

Research has consistently shown that speed cameras
have a major impact in reducing casualties. A major two-year DfT study of speed cameras across six areas
found a 35% reduction in people killed and seriously injured at camera sites, compared to long-term trend.
This finding repeats results of previous studies: the West London Speed Camera Demonstration Project
experienced casualty reductions of 55% compared to control sites and 70% compared to the period before
cameras were installed2. Similar findings have emerged from other countries: an evaluation of 28 camera sites
in New South Wales, Australia found a reduction in fatalities from 21 in the three years before camera
installation to 1 in the two years after installation.

[wim121]

I speed all the time when its safe especially on a motorway in good conditions, but I keep to the speed limit in built up areas. The limit is there for a reason.

+1

I can only pray that your driving skills are better than your spelling ...

*smacks you on the nose with a newspaper like a naughty puppy*

We have been through this many times, grammar, spelling and punctuation are different. Stop confusing the three.

[Paddy]

Like this one?

Research has consistently shown that speed cameras
have a major impact in reducing casualties. A major two-year DfT study of speed cameras across six areas found a 35% reduction in people killed and seriously injured at camera sites, compared to long-term trend. This finding repeats results of previous studies: the West London Speed Camera Demonstration Project experienced casualty reductions of 55% compared to control sites and 70% compared to the period before cameras were installed2. Similar findings have emerged from other countries: an evaluation of 28 camera sites in New South Wales, Australia found a reduction in fatalities from 21 in the three years before camera installation to 1 in the two years after installation.

Not according to the statistics mapped on the BBC website. If people are people are having accidents and being killed at camera sites (the map shows different) then the cameras would pick up the accident if the vehicles were speeding; but they don’t. The way the police record and accident is that every accident that involves a vehicle exceeding the speed limit is recorded with speed as a factor even if all four wheels fall off and caused the accident.

And WTF are the findings for the Australian cameras?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Drive at any speed and you'll soon have an idiot on your arse and a tailback behind him and generally become a menace(as defined by people who think they are tulip hot drivers and can drive at any speed), a few miles an hour more and you risk getting done, which is easily done when you shouldn't be on the road if you can't look out of the big window in the front occasionally. It's a fine line people who can't drive tread.

FTFY

[SimonMac]

Getting worried now....

Just got the NIP, this is madness, I'm scared of even going out in the car to the station now. Some points...

1. All NIPs from mobile cameras...

2. All just over the limit, ie not taking the piss.

3. From 1985 until my first NIP last Sept I never had anything, not even a parking ticket.

I took speed awareness for one, this takes me to six point's now, who knows what else in the post, I could have more to come. I'm not a boy racer, honest!

I'm seriously considering dumping the car and putting all the taxi's/trains/chauffeur even on the Ltd, (I believe you can get driving ban insurance!)!

OK, I sped, I'll take the fine, but the points thing makes things stupid from a work POV, I could end up banned in a day with all these mobile cameras, and then who knows re: getting about the country necessary in this game.

Rant over!

Can't be arse reading the whole thread but I guess this won't be the first time someone called you a bed wetter, if you need your licence don't speed or get a wife that has a clean licence to take the points for you*.

I am a big fan of speed cameras, they only catch people breaking the law, they use minimum resources in the process of issuing and processing the fines, what would the reaction be if someone said we can catch all burgulars through CCTV and issue punitive justice automatically. It will be hailed as the best thing since p0rn and kleenex was invented.

There is a simple solution to those who don't want the points, don't speed or if you do look out of the big yellow speed camera or big white van with blacked out windows.







*PS This might not work if you are an MP