Change in UK Law to Render Mobile Database Useless?

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[cantgetlost]

One of our local roads had the speed limit reduced from 60mph to 40mph and is subject to speed checks now. Two serious accidents broughbt about this action supposedly. Both were late at night and involved young male drunken drivers, one was killed and the other a son of a colleague of my wife was nearly 4 times over the booze limit when he rolled his car.
No doubt the law thinks that a drunk will respect lower limits we understand that both drunk drivers were way over the 60 mph limit
The junction where we join the road had only had one accident that we know of in over twenty years until the reduction in the limit to 40mph.
We have now had over 20 accidents there. And there have been others along the road where there were none before.

Many speed limits are un realistic and to slow and only reflect low quality in driving standards (that the police ignore) and ability and have next to nothing to do with speed.

If the law wants respect it should give motorists respect in return. Spates of burgalaries and other crimes in our village go un-attended as the police are to busy. Yet they can have time to chase and criminalise drivers who slip over the 40 limit as the road conditions do not reflect the need for such a low speed.

Some would say money has nothing to do with the laws action. Those in the know and realists know the truth.

[mostdom]

Come on boys and girls, everyone has now vented thier concerns over speeding but this post was about the mobile database. If someone dosn't lock it now they soon will.
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[squirrelone]

Lets face it the only reason speed cameras are placed where they are is to generate income for Gordon Brown. He does not care one bit about road safety, the associated cost to the NHS for RTA's just the nett £ he will get from the motorist. Remember most associated costs form speed camera convictions also generates VAT at 17.5% - he is quids in and it will never stop. George Orwell in 1984 it is everything he predicted and more. Time to leave this land for a place that is sane!

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[nuttynurse]

I think it should be called the "Dick Turpin Partnership" rather than the "Road Safety Partnership" as this stopped being about road safety a long time ago.

[danandyozz]

It looks like we're all going to need a laser and radar detectors as well as a GPS for fixed cameras such as monitron and SPECS. Wot i would like is a specs addon to the TOM TOM that clocks ur average speed between the two cameras as the location of specs cameras doesn't really help at all! However unfortunately we'll always be one step behing the speed trappers!

Going back to breaking the law. I have a 1993 mk3 golf which has a rather shocking stopping distance at 75mph (70 on the tom tom as the speedo is soo inaccurate) if you compare this to an audi TT or other performace cars they can stop in a shorter distance at 100mph than my car at 70mph.

The government should make all cars have ABS and EBD and rear discs as standard, NOW THAT WOLD SAVE LIVES. And they need to calibrate speedos so that people don't sit doing 35 in a 40 AND EVERYONE OFF.

[mgibbs]

Seems to me that if the government were serious about reducing speeding in the name of safety and not revenue generation then they'd introduce a policy of fitting speed restricters to new cars as well as heavy vehicles.

Mark
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[jvc]

While we're banging on about drunks etc not getting caught by cameras, what about drivers who are just natural cretins?
In our county a few years ago, a Chrismas campaign was held where the police pulled over everyone that was driving in a manner that suggested they may have had a couple of sherbets.
15% were found to be a bit tipsy and a huge cheer went up on such a good result.
What no-one seemed to grasp is that 85%, who were driving so badly, were stone cold sober.
Some people should never pass a test. When they've taken it, say, 5 times, that should be it. It'd be a fluke if they passed.
I can't play a flute, I can't speak Serbo-Kroat and I accept that, but everyone thinks they can drive and, no matter how useless they are, they think it's their God given right to take to the roads.

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[MaxRider]

I live in Cumbria and can remember when they used to announce on the local radio where the cameras were going to be stationed on a particular day. I can only assume that the revenue has dried, up if they were really concerned about deaths on the roads they would do something about accident blackspots instead of having people sitting on there arses all day taking pictures. Why don't they put more cameras on motorways where 80 % of traffic go over the limit, of course the motorways would grind to a halt if everyone did 70 I can't remember the last time I saw a police car doing 70 on the motorway with no one passing and a long tailback.

[Gl3n]

This news just makes me fume. I find the use cameras in the UK frustrating. There are a couple of cameras near Edinburgh that were placed on an underpass when it was being built - three accidents? - yeah right.

I just spent a few days over in Germany recently. I saw one police car on the autobahn and just a few cameras though I'm not sure what they were for! Yes there are unristricted places on the motorway and people take advantage of them. They also respect the speed limits when in place. There were a few cameras in towns but they were wher eyou would expect them to be - near schools.

Roadworks didn't have miles of cones before them - just a few signs. People slowed down to the set speed during the road works and once clear the speed limit was raised.

I noticed a few motorway signs recently going on about speed limits and fuel economy. Driving to London from Edinburgh at the speed limit I am lucky to 400 miles from a tank. Driving in Germany at about 100+ for a good part of the time and I get 500 miles from a tank. An 8 year old Mondeo before you ask.

Cameras are just there to make money otherwise they would be outside every school which would be sensible but when has this government been sensible.

[GJF]

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