Speeding

[kwatt]

Okay, so once again I’m rattling down to England and, once again wondering why there’s no passport control (Northbound :lol:) and last year I got nabbed for doing 80 something on the M74. That hacked me off, but I paid up and took the hit on the points as I thought, ho hum, oh well and me thinking it was a fair cop.

But, recently I had to do jury duty and that changed my perspective. Basically I saw a drug dealer, some scumbag that was probably selling heroin to kids, get off just because of the crazy arsed system of justice that we have, well to some degree at least.

So anyways, I got done for speeding again last week by one of those bloody mobile camera vans. Welcome to Cumbria my arse, I was only doing 79mph.

So if you get caught, to save you all a lot of hunting about the internet or paying for information you can get for free you should, most likely, only need this one URL…

http://www.pepipoo.com/

Hope it’s of some use and, if it saves you your subs for a speeding ticket, great.

K.

[Martin114]

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It makes me sick with all this rubbish about the speedo needle must point to no more that ‘X’ mph or you are in danger of killing some one.
My son was entrapt by a gatso at 6.50am one morning for 40mph in a 30 limit. This road was a 40mph road until recently, and at this time of the morning there is very little on the road anyway. I really can’t understand why the general public put up with these anti car extremists whose agenda seems to be to remove as many innocent experienced drivers from the roads as they can.
I think the objective must be to reduce the quantity of road users – so all the income from road taxes don’t have to go into new road building – which is desperately needed.

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[clivejameson]

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Martin114 wrote:
I think the objective must be to reduce the quantity of road users – so all the income from road taxes don’t have to go into new road building – which is desperately needed.

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Nah…it’s more about raising revenue…..

http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk//displa … illion.php

This particular spot is on a hill (going up) at the point that the limit changes from 30mph to 40mph, it’s a dual carriageway where no accidents of any consequence to my knowledge have taken place, and if you care to search the this website you’ll see that the newspaper has run a campaign for nearly two years to get these figures released, something that the police were quite obviously embarrassed to do

[Martin114]

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Very interesting read Clive and I agree the main purpose is money – but the next thing after the excessive income generated is – less motorists on the road through the points – which means they don’t have to spend money on extra capacity.
If any of this were about safety, then they would access each individual case as to the conditions, traffic, road, and drivers experience.

[eastlmark]

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I am having a ranting day and nothing gets my back up more (aside from NTL,AOL, Arsenal fans and Hendrick motorsport drivers winning) than those who quote that old cliche about speeding fines and raising revenue.
So what if they do raise revenue? The police is not a profit making bussiness and is funded by our tax, and I am assuming this money is not spent on the xmas police piss up. That means the cash raised is pumped back into the forces to carry out their work and hopefully less on our council tax bills. Should up the mobile phone while driving policing at the same time and maybe enpower traffic wardens to be able to spot fine or even just photograph offenders and their cars whilst they are plodding around town. More cash from offenders, less from the law abiding.

[kwatt]

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I wouldn’t mind so much Mark if the police even remotely gave a toss when my car gets broken into, thing is they don’t.

They don’t care when some plonker dumps rubbish at the end of my drive and then I have to pay to have it removed.

They didn’t give a stuff when the garage at UKW HQ got burgled, we caught the guy there and told them so on the phone and still they took over an hour to get there. Needless to say the druggie scumbag got away.

As for the yobs old enough to own a Corsa that can bounce with a 120bpm dance beat due to the sonic impact of the subs tearing up the street, no problem, we don’t bother with them. Mind you half the bodykit looks set to fall off due to excessive vibration on them anyway usually.

Locally they don’t bother about the yobs hanging about terrorising old folks and causing general mayhem oh no, but woe betide you if you happen to park in a bus stop for 30 seconds, you’re the Spawn Of Satan and fined accordingly.

In short, they generally don’t really do much to help themselves at times in terms of image preferring, it would seem, to pick on the soft targets that they know they’ll get a result on. Mind you, when you keep crime figure statistics that is pretty certain to happen I suppose.

Now, I’d suggest that you have a day off as you’re really off on one. Virgin/NThelL must have really got your back up this week.

K.

[eastlmark]

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Agree with what you say Ken but its irrelevent to the subject of speed cameras and revenue raising. In theory of course a camera is money well spent rather than having an officer standing there instead of catching real criminals. I know in practice it doesnt work out that way, but dont blame speed cameras for that.
I forget to add Tesco to my list…..dont get me started on them! and I was having a day off, hence time to rant 😉

[kwatt]

I think what gets people’s backs up on the speeding thing is that all too often the cameras are placed where there is little danger, so it seems as if it’s simply a revenue thing. Now, if the money was being spent on bringing down other crimes and that could be shown I’d guess that the resistance would be lower.

Sadly that doesn’t appear to be the case.

From what I’m told a lot of the money that the cops get is spent on bureaucracy, not catching crims.

K.

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