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90 Percent of Wakefield's Speed Cameras Are Dummies
Article by: robert
Date: 5 Sep 2009
 The Wakefield Express have reported that drivers have a 90% chance of not being caught when speeding past the town's cameras.
During a neighbourhood police team meeting, Bob Wyatt, Wakefield Council's senior traffic engineer claimed "The chance of there being a camera within each speed camera box isn't very high. There are some that I know where there's never been a camera."
He also confirmed that even when speeding past the remaining working cameras within a 30mph zone, a driver would normally have to exceed 36mph to be prosecuted.
People attending meeting were also told that Wakefield had one of the lowest accident rates in West Yorkshire and the UK.
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 Posted by M8TJT on Sat Sep 05, 2009 1:34 pm |
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| News Team Wrote: | Wakefield Express have reported that drivers have a 90% chance of not being caught when speeding past the town's cameras.
Bob Wyatt, Wakefield Council's senior traffic engineer claimed "The chance of there being a camera within each speed camera box isn't very high. There are some that I know where there's never been a camera." |
I don't suppose either party is willing to share with us which are real and which are dummies. 
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| Posted by jmcmtank on Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:12 pm |
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I'm in Wakefield all the time and wondered how they could afford so many cameras. Must say they are very polite drivers, unlike their counterparts in Glasgow.
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| Posted by MikeB on Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:15 pm |
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| M8TJT Wrote: | | News Team Wrote: | Wakefield Express have reported that drivers have a 90% chance of not being caught when speeding past the town's cameras.
Bob Wyatt, Wakefield Council's senior traffic engineer claimed "The chance of there being a camera within each speed camera box isn't very high. There are some that I know where there's never been a camera." |
I don't suppose either party is willing to share with us which are real and which are dummies. |
I depends what they mean by dummies. It used to be the case with the old wet film cams that the innards could be switched around so you could never tell the real ones from the dummies.
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| Posted by dcfjm on Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:18 pm |
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I notified pocketGPSworld to 3 cameras when they were installed in Wakefield...but I wouldnt like to be the one to ''try them out''...the 3 near me do slow everybody down..If you want to take chances with cameras..be it on your own head...its a well known fact that not all cameras have film in all the time..
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| Posted by banger9365 on Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:25 pm |
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there might not be a camera in the gatso's put they do slow us lot down shame about the taxi's in wakey .
what we got 20 odd cameras and only one or two work on 3 roads
they are dummys ,you can see when you go passed them, there is no camera in them
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| Posted by culzean on Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:50 pm |
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I guess having a 90% chance of not being caught by a camera is the same as you having a 10% chance of being flashed - still too high a probability for me to lose 3 points on a 9 to 1 bet.
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If anyone knows the dummies, they will!
