Speeding.....when do you do it?.....is it ever 'OK'?

jase1

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of speeding on NSL roads and motorways, I have no time whatsoever for any driver who speeds around town. This includes sleepy villages on otherwise derestricted roads.

I was in a car with a work colleague who went through a succession of small villages at 45-50mph (another one of these cretins who was criticising people for overtaking him doing the same speed on the NSL parts while doing far worse himself). By the third village I demanded that he let me out, and took the bus back to work.

If ever my brain decides to fuse and I "do a Raoul Moat" as it were, it'll be these drivers that I'll be shooting in the head. Watch out all you "speed kills" types, we all know that a fair percentage of you drive like this.

knightstyle

Speed limits are sometimes placed to raise money from fines!!!! There now I've said it. Proof is on the A631 heading East from the A1(M) to Gainsborough. Two long stretches with average speed cameras to make sure you stick at the 50 limit and then a nice dual carridgeway, no hazards, 50 limit and a little white van with a speed camera in it in a layby several times a month. Must make a fortune!

Gandalfthesecond

knightstyle wrote: »

Speed limits are sometimes placed to raise money from fines!!!! There now I've said it. Proof is on the A631 heading East from the A1(M) to Gainsborough. Two long stretches with average speed cameras to make sure you stick at the 50 limit and then a nice dual carridgeway, no hazards, 50 limit and a little white van with a speed camera in it in a layby several times a month. Must make a fortune!

If you stick to the limit they won't make a penny.;)

Gordon_Hose

knightstyle wrote: »

Speed limits are sometimes placed to raise money from fines!!!! There now I've said it. Proof is on the A631 heading East from the A1(M) to Gainsborough. Two long stretches with average speed cameras to make sure you stick at the 50 limit and then a nice dual carridgeway, no hazards, 50 limit and a little white van with a speed camera in it in a layby several times a month. Must make a fortune!

They don't raise money. You choose to hand it over by getting caught speeding lol

Strider590

Speeders are keeping your taxes down, you should be thankful!

Coveredinbees!!!!

I suppose I speed all the time as for some stupid reason my little connect van is only supposed to go 50/60 in a NSL not 60/70 like cars. It goes like a car so I drive it like a car. I do try to stick to the limits around town but it can creep up. I have been caught (out) once in the van when the only bit that you could over take on had a camera van on it and I got done a 70 in a 50 (NSL single carriage way) but I was commited to the overtake by then, you can't really slow down when your alongside a truck. I doubt I would have got a ticket if I had been in a car.

Lum

Strider590 wrote: »

Speeders are keeping your taxes down, you should be thankful!

Actually the profit made is very little once the running costs of the camera partnerships are taken into consideration.

They literally bring in less revenue than Simon Cowel's income tax.

mcjordi

goosander wrote: »

It was apparently an Audi TT which is not your usual police vehicle.

most likely a cheif constables car.. highly doubt it was a patrol/normal police vehicle..

i know of one police vehicle near me been written off after 2 days YES 2 days as a police car.. 59 plate bmw some idiot wandered into the police cars lane at 70+ on the motorway and wiped out both cars..

luckily the bmw had the video recorders on

Lum

I know Gwent Police use BMW 3 series as traffic cars, so yes they will have video from day 1.

crazylegsr65

mchale wrote: »

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, The majority of speed limits where set when cars had drum brakes all round, no disc brakes, no abs, you could easily increase speed limits 20% and a modern car would easily stop quicker than a car of the age when speed limits where set

Technology may have increased, but humans ability hasn't. Even with all these increases in technology and better performance (i.e. braking distances etc) we're still crashing our cars. We're still losing around 3600 people a year because they crash their cars (for whatever reason). Yes the number of deaths is hovering around the lowest it's ever been but that's because of safety cells, airbags, seatbelts and everything else - the number of RTCs is staying more or less constant. If you increase the speed then you increase the energy involved in a collision and that's a bad thing.

The vast majority of people don't leave the correct space between themselves and the vehicle infront - it doesn't matter how good your brakes are, they'll still plow into the back of the car in front if they're too close.

Every RTC that occurs is the drivers fault. Every. Single. One. Even if the vehicle isn't maintained properly - that's the drivers fault (because I'm sure they can see the bald tires and can hear the metal on metal braking noise). Skidding off the road because it's icy/wet? Then that's the driver going too fast for the road conditions.

Anyhow ABS doesn't decrease your braking distance, it merely allows you to steer while under heavy braking.