Speed camera van on seafront road at saltdean

[Prettyboyshaw]

Often there got done for 36 a month or so ago.

Glad to see them doing something productive with their time rather than tracking down the citys peado rapists and drug dealers.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Weird, isn't it, how speeding is the only element of the law where people seem to think they're hard done by when they get caught for breaking it.

It's only a money making exercise for the authorities if you're speeding: it's not like you can't avoid it

 

[Uncle C]

Weird, isn't it, how speeding is the only element of the law where people seem to think they're hard done by when they get caught for breaking it.

It's only a money making exercise for the authorities if you're speeding: it's not like you can't avoid it

The trouble is that many people have fooled themselves into thinking they are better drivers than they really are. Its a macho thing.

If a kid runs out in the road while you're doing 40mph in a 30 limit its easy to avoid killing it. After all they've done all this advanced driving stuff on the playstation.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Often there got done for 36 a month or so ago.

Glad to see them doing something productive with their time rather than tracking down the citys peado rapists and drug dealers.

Incredible.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Weird, isn't it, how speeding is the only element of the law where people seem to think they're hard done by when they get caught for breaking it.

It's only a money making exercise for the authorities if you're speeding: it's not like you can't avoid it

Weird isn't it that when one motorist flashes another to warn them to slow down (camera up ahead) that they can be prosecuted. This when the often stated aim of cameras is to slow traffic down rather than prosecute motorists.

 

[Uncle C]

Weird isn't it that when one motorist flashes another to warn them to slow down (camera up ahead) that they can be prosecuted. This when the often stated aim of cameras is to slow traffic down rather than prosecute motorists.

Why is that wierd. If someone was holding up a bank and a member of the public rushed in to warn them the police were coming, that would be aiding someone to break the law.

 

[DanielT]

Weird isn't it that when one motorist flashes another to warn them to slow down (camera up ahead) that they can be prosecuted. This when the often stated aim of cameras is to slow traffic down rather than prosecute motorists.

So is posting this thread the same as flashing your lights? If so, oops!

And I will definitely NOT mention the van is now on carden avenue by the sainsburys

 

[wellquickwoody]

Why is that wierd. If someone was holding up a bank and a member of the public rushed in to warn them the police were coming, that would be aiding someone to break the law.

Fail! I would not be helping them to break the law, I would be advising them not to do so.

 

[Uncle C]

Fail! I would not be helping them to break the law, I would be advising them not to do so.

What does 'fail' mean - are you 12 years old?

 

[chimneys]

Weird, isn't it, how speeding is the only element of the law where people seem to think they're hard done by when they get caught for breaking it.

Thats because its the only element of the law that pretty much everyone has broken (including I would bet every single serving Traffic Officer (off duty!)) at least once in their life, if not habitually! Therefore its a lottery and many people are miffed when their number's up for a minor incursion.

For me, I rarely do more than 10% over speed limit these days, but do use these mobile units as a timely reminder to watch my speed (but would be irked knowing the person "catching" me for marginal speeding has almost certainly broken the same law).

 

[wellquickwoody]

What does 'fail' mean - are you 12 years old?

How old are you, and why are you on a discussion forum if you do not understand the meaning of an often used, innoffensive four letter word?

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Fail! I would not be helping them to break the law, I would be advising them not to do so.

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Incorrect. You would simply be telling them they needed to leave with swag captured as at then & not to wait & get even more. ie helping

 

[Uncle C]

Here's another deluded idiot

Michael Thompson, 64, believed he was doing his ‘civic duty’ by alerting drivers on the opposite side of a dual carriageway.

Thompson of Grimsby, north-east Lincolnshire, told the court he was warning motorists for safety reasons.

He ended up £440 out of pocket after being fined £175, ordered to pay £250 costs and a £15 victims’ surcharge.


Read more: Driver who flashed headlights to warn motorists of speed trap fined | Mail Online

 

[Icy Gull]

Weird, isn't it, how speeding is the only element of the law where people seem to think they're hard done by when they get caught for breaking it.

It's only a money making exercise for the authorities if you're speeding: it's not like you can't avoid it

I tend to get about 1 ticket every 5 years on average.

I've accepted the fines and points without moaning or feeling the need to complain on the occasions I've been caught, but it doesn't mean that the police aren't sneaky bastards sometimes in the way they hide their vans. It's 100% a revenue raiser in those conditions not a safety campaign. Average speed limits on motorways should also reflect the time of day and whether there is actually any work going on imo.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Thats because its the only element of the law that pretty much everyone has broken (including I would bet every single serving Traffic Officer (off duty!)) at least once in their life, if not habitually! Therefore its a lottery and many people are miffed when their number's up for a minor incursion.

For me, I rarely do more than 10% over speed limit these days, but do use these mobile units as a timely reminder to watch my speed (but would be irked knowing the person "catching" me for marginal speeding has almost certainly broken the same law).

I agree: unless you're driving with your eyes glued to the speedo then inevitably you'll waver occasionally.

But that said, the line has to be drawn somewhere, and it is where it is, therefore if I got caught, I'd just have to hold my hands up and take it. I'm not going to argue the toss over the degree to which I was wrong. I was just wrong. I'd be pissed off, sure, but only at myself for doing it.

And as for the whole "rapists & murderers" argument, whoever posted that: spare me Statistically, what do you think the average person's chances are of being murdered, as opposed to their chances of dying or being maimed in a road accident? I can tell you now I've been to considerably more road deaths than I have murder scenes.

 

[Uncle C]

I tend to get about 1 ticket every 5 years on average.

I've accepted the fines and points without moaning or feeling the need to complain on the occasions I've been caught, but it doesn't mean that the police aren't sneaky bastards sometimes in the way they hide their vans.

So they should always be in full visibility to allow drivers like you to slow down for 100yds before speeding again.

It's 100% a revenue raiser in those conditions not a safety campaign.

The safety comes afterwards when intelligent prosecuted drivers normally slow down.

Average speed limits on motorways should also reflect the time of day and whether there is actually any work going on imo.

They do. If there is something going on you are asked to slow to 50mph.[/QUOTE]

 

[Icy Gull]

I tend to get about 1 ticket every 5 years on average.

I've accepted the fines and points without moaning or feeling the need to complain on the occasions I've been caught, but it doesn't mean that the police aren't sneaky bastards sometimes in the way they hide their vans.

So they should always be in full visibility to allow drivers like you to slow down for 100yds before speeding again.

It's 100% a revenue raiser in those conditions not a safety campaign.

The safety comes afterwards when intelligent prosecuted drivers normally slow down.

Average speed limits on motorways should also reflect the time of day and whether there is actually any work going on imo.

They do. If there is something going on you are asked to slow to 50mph.[/QUOTE]

I'm not gonna bother to argue with you because it's all too black and white to you it seems. I bet you sit at exactly 70mph in the outside lane on motorways too?

 

[Aadam]

Often there got done for 36 a month or so ago.

Glad to see them doing something productive with their time rather than tracking down the citys peado rapists and drug dealers.

Traffic cops hunt drug dealers and Paedophiles now? And here I was thinking the police were broken up into specialist units.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

that'd be for all you pricks who insist that I drive over the limit by tailgaiting me!

Tailgaiting only has a use when the driver in front is doing 20 under, so you can give them a little reminder.

I hope you didn`t get your season ticket in the North,you sound like a right boring old fcuker

 

[Uncle C]

I'm not gonna bother to argue with you because it's all too black and white to you it seems. I bet you sit at exactly 70mph in the outside lane on motorways too?

Let me translate: "I cant argue with this, so I'll change tack and throw out an insult instead."