A New type of Speed camera!
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thekickingmule wrote:
Nope, you're right. The transport secretary was on Top Gear once and he explained it. Jeremy Clarkson found it strange that they considered 2 of the accidents on the M6 to be people commiting suicide by jumping off bridges, as speed cameras can't change that.cee wrote:I also read somewhere that there need to be a certain number of accidents on a particular stretch in order for a camera to be intalled there.....
It might have only been in one council ward though...can't really remember the details.
Yeh but he also said we are not trying to catchyou out.. so why do the the mobile camera's hide around corners or in busshes and so on..
To be honest i agree witht he 30 limit in its entirety, but the 70 on the motorway i don't it was set many years ago when cars sucked and were no where near as safe (good brakes and so on) as now.0 -
If they upped the limit to 80, a lot of people would be a lot happier, but a few other rules would have to be brought in with it, i.e. higher lorry speeds, and NO TRACTORS!!! They do my nut in anyway, doing 30 on the dualer. Minimum limits may also be an idea, say 50?"The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. That way, you always have a couple of days in hand." - Bill Bailey0
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reckon there should only be cameras in accident blackspots
slightly off topic but road relevant, i'd like them to ban caravans during hours of daylight, would have saved me loads of time this weekend in wales :evil:if it ain't rainin.....it ain't trainin
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I'm not sure whether the mobile camera's are allowed to be hidden. Now I may be corrected, but I believe that they have to show somewhere that there is a camera ahead, for instance when you see a sign of a camera (the black and white one) it means that there may be a camera hidden somewhere soon. If there isn't one of those though, I recon you would probably win in court.Thewaylander wrote:thekickingmule wrote:
Nope, you're right. The transport secretary was on Top Gear once and he explained it. Jeremy Clarkson found it strange that they considered 2 of the accidents on the M6 to be people commiting suicide by jumping off bridges, as speed cameras can't change that.cee wrote:I also read somewhere that there need to be a certain number of accidents on a particular stretch in order for a camera to be intalled there.....
It might have only been in one council ward though...can't really remember the details.
Yeh but he also said we are not trying to catchyou out.. so why do the the mobile camera's hide around corners or in busshes and so on..
To be honest i agree witht he 30 limit in its entirety, but the 70 on the motorway i don't it was set many years ago when cars sucked and were no where near as safe (good brakes and so on) as now.
That's why all the cameras are yellow, because people kept winning in caught with the excuse 'they couldn't see the grey camera box' The fact they were speeding of course is completely irrelevant...It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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Just a word of warning for any of you using the north of the M6. They have speed cameras on tripods on the bridges over the motorway, 3 of them, on for each lane. The van is out of sight to the left. There are no signs or anything and as the tripods are behind railings they are quite hard to spot from a distance as they blend in.0
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The so called 'Safety Partnership' has to have yellow cameras (& probably signs), but the police can hide them anywhere they like - fake tradesman's vans, wheelie bins, anywhere.
As for a 50 minimum, I'd love to agree but my truck only does 47...! Rubbish.
Speed on it's own isn't any kind of problem - it's differences in speed that matter (eg. 50 & 90 on a M-way, or 40 & walking in town).WTD:
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the goerment are dick heads its fun speeding. the think is every one dose it even the police but they seem o think cus they have been on a course which proberly just involves them sitting in a lecture room with power point they can drie safly at high speeds. stupid if u ask me.0
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it isn't speed which kills, it's how fast you stop.
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Poor bleating little sheep....
Unable or unwilling to drive legally and then bleat when censured.
Don't drive illegally and there is no problem.
Driive illegally - then don't bleat when you get caught through your own stupidity.<b><i>He that buys land buys many stones.
He that buys flesh buys many bones.
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
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Are you only 6 years old...? Or is this a p*ss take / wind up??? If you're serious, you're a tosser.EmO_KiD wrote:the goerment are dick heads its fun speeding. the think is every one dose it even the police but they seem o think cus they have been on a course which proberly just involves them sitting in a lecture room with power point they can drie safly at high speeds. stupid if u ask me.
Infact, I agree. Going 80 in the middle of town, or round a resedential area is WELL fun!
If you want to drive fast - fine. Do it on a track. It only costs £20 for a run-what-you-brung, whole day at my local race track. Going fast IS fun. Seriously fun! It's why we MTB (and road cycle...), isn't it?
BUT, being a tosser, driving like a twat, and KILLING people on PUBLIC roads, becuase you think it's 'fun' to break the speed limits.... A little 6 or 7 year old girl got killed on a main road round by me, by a tw@t like yourself, speeding. If he was going at 30, he may have seen her in the road, and she'd still be alive.... If you want to drive fast and kill ONLY youself, then fine also.
But you can't guarentee, 100% that you're gonna spin off into a tree, alone, and not hit anyone else. I sincerely hope you either get sectioned, or banned from driving.
And no, I'm not saint. I do speed. But I promise you now, if I notice I've drifted over the speed limit (which NEVER happens in towns / resedential areas BTW), I'll engine-brake back to the limit. I'm 21, been driving 3 years (around 30,000 miles), no accidents, no crashes, no points.
Folks with attitudes like yours EmO_KiD enrage me.Boo-yah mofo
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+1, well put!
GFs a paramedic, and while the blue light driving sounds exciting, it does take practise and a lot more concentration and skill than normal driving. And the training is certainly not just a powerpoint presentation.
But this is why I don't like speeding; the slower I drive, the longer it takes to reach a driver like emo_kid!!0 -
bails87 - IMHO, emergency services are totally different. They can do 60 in a 30 with a reasonable degree of safety, as they are trained to do it, have the lights and sirens blaring out, and are brightly coloured vehicles. They speed to SAVE PEOPLES LIVES, by risking their own. Courageous guys and girls.
EmO_KiD's car is probably black (emo-ified), with no lights on, ever. While he's trying to either smoke a joint, drink a beer or self harm AND drive.
Which is why knobs like him shouldn't be allowed to drive anything with more power than a shopping trolley...Boo-yah mofo
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