Speed trap, flashing headlights offence?

rdwarr

Good point - you could argue that you were "preventing a crime". I flash my headlights at speeding motorists when there's NOT a camera or a trap there. Makes them slow down and my estate safer for the kids.

Tahiti

Mark7799 wrote:

Taking a slightly different analogy to the 'housebreaker' scenario posted earlier, are these cameras there to slow people down or to raise money? If someone flashes their lights and gets a motorist travelling in the opposite direction to slow down then surely they have done the job the speed camera was trying to do - how can this be an obstruction of a police officer's duty.

(That is unless the real purpose of the cameras is not to get people to slow down but to catch them speeding and raise money from fines levied :rolleyes: )

I love your thinking. :T

110frankie

>>>From the Bolton Evening News April 2 1906
While out for a walk on a recent Sunday morning at London-rd., Norbury, a local resident warned several passing motorists to go slowly as the police were in the vicinity timing them. He has now received a summons for "obstructing the police in the execution of their duty."<<<

I wonder what, if anything, has changed?

nearlyrich

Twopints wrote:

An unreconstructed speeder as minister for transport; what next a robber as Chancellor ?

He just needs the stripey jumper:rolleyes: