Mobile Speed Camera Vans

Mark7799

Course not - it was on the way to the supermarket :-))

Poppycat

They caught 140 drivers in my area recently

http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Police-spy-van-captures-140.4162635.jp

A POLICE speed trap operated from an unmarked white van has netted so many drivers that extra court sittings have had to be arranged.

tomstickland

I'd like to see some more info on the locations, roads, speed limit and speeds they caught people at.

I rather liked this comment:

You state that speed causes accidents and costs lives.

While I was a Paramedic I took pride in achieving Government attendance times by driving fast.

If you say "Oh well that's different because of the training." you will be accepting that ability and not speed is the critical factor. This is the point being made by several correspondents above.

No-one is saying it is legal to exceed speed limits, and in 30/40/50 zones I stick to the posted limits, but to assume that driving at 70MPH is exponentially more dangerous than driving at 60MPH is rather facile.

A local road has recently been reduced from a 60MPH to a 50MPH, I have travelled that road at 100MPH on more than one occasion without incident. It is now a possibility that a driver maintaining a steady 59MPH can be penalised for a speed which is well within the safety margins for the road.

Speed, in isolation, is a victimless crime which, due to the obsessive focus, consumes a disproportionate amount of the Police budget.

d123

tomstickland wrote: »

I'd like to see some more info on the locations, roads, speed limit and speeds they caught people at.

I rather liked this comment:

You state that speed causes accidents and costs lives.

While I was a Paramedic I took pride in achieving Government attendance times by driving fast.

If you say "Oh well that's different because of the training." you will be accepting that ability and not speed is the critical factor. This is the point being made by several correspondents above.

No-one is saying it is legal to exceed speed limits, and in 30/40/50 zones I stick to the posted limits, but to assume that driving at 70MPH is exponentially more dangerous than driving at 60MPH is rather facile.

A local road has recently been reduced from a 60MPH to a 50MPH, I have travelled that road at 100MPH on more than one occasion without incident. It is now a possibility that a driver maintaining a steady 59MPH can be penalised for a speed which is well within the safety margins for the road.

Speed, in isolation, is a victimless crime which, due to the obsessive focus, consumes a disproportionate amount of the Police budget.

That is a well written and extremely valid comment. In the past I have also driven far in excess of the speed limit posted for the road, both in a car and on a motorcycle. At times this has been around 150mph.

This was done in safety and with due regard to the conditions. At other times when I could have exceeded the speed limit on a country lane I would not drive faster than 40mph, even though the limit was posted at 60mph. Why? because the conditions were not safe enough to do so.

Depending on the conditions, 120mph on a motorway is far safer than 50mph on a country lane.

Speed does not kill, inappropriate speed, by drivers not capable or trained to drive to a high enough standard or impaired in some way is what kills.