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The bloke who runs the company that makes most of the speed cameras that now infest our roads and collect taxes for the government while doing sod all about road safety has been banned from driving for speeding.
Shame it was a traffic cop that got him and not one of his own cameras, but still very amusing. :lol:
I was flashed Thursday for the first time tsk
Yes it’s pretty ironic (the Serco boss getting pinged for speeding).
But I have never understood the incessant whinging about speed cameras being a only a money generating device, and how unfair it all is etc etc.
Forgive me if I’m being too logical but the answer to them is really very simple ……. don’t break the speed limit !!! Easy really huh?
Speed cameras are set to ‘flash’ you if you exceed the set limit by more than 10% + 2mph. so in a 30 mph limit, you can do 35mph and get away with it; in a 40 mph limit – 46mph; in a 50mph limit – 57mph; and so on.
I really fail to see why those caught speeding by cameras whinge so much. They were well over the legal limit -they should pay their fine and get over it.
@kent f OBE wrote:
I was flashed Thursday for the first time tsk
Kent was it by a camera or a man in a long white mac? :) x
@forumhostpb wrote:
Speed cameras are set to ‘flash’ you if you exceed the set limit by more than 10% + 2mph. so in a 30 mph limit, you can do 35mph and get away with it; in a 40 mph limit – 46mph; in a 50mph limit – 57mph; and so on.
except i got done for 35mph in a 30 mph zone at 1.30 am on an empty rd
and speed cameras cant go up unless theres been three serious injuries at a camera site in a three-year period, four in London… though according to Top Gear one of the accidents counting toward a camera being placed on the M$ was someone jumping off a bridge
@forumhostpb wrote:
Yes it’s pretty ironic (the Serco boss getting pinged for speeding).
But I have never understood the incessant whinging about speed cameras being a only a money generating device, and how unfair it all is etc etc.
Forgive me if I’m being too logical but the answer to them is really very simple ……. don’t break the speed limit !!! Easy really huh?
Speed cameras are set to ‘flash’ you if you exceed the set limit by more than 10% + 2mph. so in a 30 mph limit, you can do 35mph and get away with it; in a 40 mph limit – 46mph; in a 50mph limit – 57mph; and so on.
I really fail to see why those caught speeding by cameras whinge so much. They were well over the legal limit -they should pay their fine and get over it.
Problem is that people are concentrating on their speedometers rather than the road in front of them, this makes speed cameras a danger rather than a safety aspect of road conditions.
As a driver, I really think that speed cameras are actively dangerous. Why? Simply because you end up watching your speedometer, rather than the road ahead. Not to mention the inevitable braking at the speed camera’s start point (even people who are travelling at, or below, the speed limit almost always brake) that can easily lead to a shunt (especially if you are looking at your speedo rather than… Well, you get the idea).Also road conditions at different times of the day are different, a motorway at 3 am is totally different to rush hour driving where the speed limit may be sensible.
The most telling aspect is of course that since the introduction of “safety cameras” road accidents have not decreased as a percentage of cars on the road with only 6% of accidents being directly attributable to speeding.The torygraph had an article on it not so long ago. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/5273642/Cash-first-safety-second.html
agreed Quiet Man.
Remember being on the North Circular once with slip roads and cameras galore. Signs said 40mph limit and I checked to make sure I was ok but the next one said 30. But was that for the dual carriageway or the slip ? But wait it’s 40 again so I can accelerate. Or can I ? Have to be careful as another yellow box of subterfuged Hypocrisy Tax on car-drivers is rearing up; I think that’s for the main road….. What are the other motorists doing and are they making sense of it ? Oh its 30mph this bit……. I think……. No wait they’re out of range now so that’s the unwritten signal to SPEED UP.
I seemed to be looking at everything except what was right in front of me, and all this when safe driving obviously demanded a consistent speed and proper road attention.
Feckin’ traffic hazards……..
@forumhostpb wrote:
Yes it’s pretty ironic (the Serco boss getting pinged for speeding).
But I have never understood the incessant whinging about speed cameras being a only a money generating device, and how unfair it all is etc etc.
Forgive me if I’m being too logical but the answer to them is really very simple ……. don’t break the speed limit !!! Easy really huh?
Speed cameras are set to ‘flash’ you if you exceed the set limit by more than 10% + 2mph. so in a 30 mph limit, you can do 35mph and get away with it; in a 40 mph limit – 46mph; in a 50mph limit – 57mph; and so on.
I really fail to see why those caught speeding by cameras whinge so much. They were
well over the legal limit -they should pay their fine and get over it.PB
Speed cameras will flash once you are over the speed limit set on the road you are travelling.
This was the proposal put forward by the Government Fairer speeding fines proposed –
One issue of PB’s i do agree with – dont break the speed limit – if they save one life then they are worth it.
Sorry people but I simply don’t accept all this stuff about driving along watching the speedometer in case a camera gets you and thereby putting yourself at higher risk of an accident. What a facile argument.
So what are you doing in areas where there aren’t any cameras???
The plain fact is that if you drive a vehicle on a public road, you have a legal duty to drive it within the relevant speed limit. If you exceed that speed limit you commit an offence for which you can be punished.
I have a suspicion that people object to speed cameras primarily because they are an effective way of catching those who break the speed limits.
It’s pretty simple, if you don’t like the fines & penalty points – don’t break the speed limit……. or is that a bit too complicated for some drivers????
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