Can They Be Held Account?

[TWR]

A report was made to the local police regards the excess speed over 20mph on our road, 8 weeks ago it was reported & logged, the police said they would send down mobile cameras (They have not) If a serious accident occurred can the police be held to account?

[ummmm]

I wouldn't have thought so. They can't patrol every single street.

[EDDIE51]

No. Not a chance.

[Cloverjo]

Don't you think 20 mph is a ridiculously low limit? People would be more likely to be looking at their speedometer than the road.
I can't imagine the police could be held to account for not being there when a serious accident occurred.

[douglas9401]

No chance. The police are (ahem) a law unto themselves.

[ummmm]

What about protesting to the council to get speed bumps put in?

I live in a 20mph street and we have speed bumps. You can't get past 20 before you have to slow down again.

[EDDIE51]

I think TWR means the cars are 20mph over the limit. Not that the limit is 20mph.

[ummmm]

Really? The side streets round here all have a 20 limit.

[douglas9401]

As an aside, I wonder how long it will be before the distinction between the speed limit and kerb crawling vanishes.

[Old_Geezer]

I also take it it was one of those 20mph limit which is cropping up everywhere, put in place by evil driver hating folk who are in power and clearly crazed by it. There may be exceptional places whereby it is useful to compensate for appalling planning department drop offs, but those places should be rare.

I'm unsure the police ought to be prioritising this particular law breaking over other law enforcement when it is simply folk doing the right thing by civil disobedience to encourage those in power to stop imposing this sort of thing.

[ummmm]

O-G...I actually agree with it. We have two primary schools close by. Being hit by a car hurts...I know this for a fact!

[Old_Geezer]

Primary schools should be nowhere near main roads and would count as one of the exceptions if the planning department failed. But not every local road should be restricted so and so it is primarily parental responsibility to ensure their kids are safe and do not run out in traffic.

[TWR]

OG, they have just built 400 new houses nearby, the road has become race track, I understand the police can not be every where, but if it was reported that there was a seeding issue on this road since the "New House Build" there is a problem that was not there before, to me they should act on the report.

[ubasses]

You might be better off by speaking to the local council about having speed cameras put in. Ask for average speed cameras, they have more effect.
You will have more clout it you get an action group together, they seem to take it more seriously than an individual approach.

[TWR]

UB, already been done.

[Old_Geezer]

Racing on public roads should be clamped down on regardless of the limit. That would make this a priority. Is it at a particular time of day ? We need more police presence funded, rather than cameras spying on us.

[ummmm]

OG...the closest primary school is a Victorian school...there long before most households had a car.

I'm talking side streets though....not main roads.

[Old_Geezer]

Planning should have ensured the main road didn't become the main road. Side roads are a case for parents protecting kids before they are old enough to keep themselves safe and giving them the knowledge that there are dangerous things in life, one being traffic/roads and they need care; much as they tell them that boiling water and fire hurts.

There is too much these days of expecting to impose unreasonable restrictions on others to compensate for not fulfilling one's own responsibilities; or even dropping responsibility altogether and simply blaming others.

[ummmm]

It's not as simple as that when you're talking about buildings built over a hundred years ago.

Parents should be in charge of their kids, no argument there, but kids do run off now and then, just because that's what kids do, no sense of danger.

I was knocked over on crossing a pedestrian crossing....so you're never totally safe.

[RATTER15]

There is speeding on ever road in the country every minute of hour of the day. They can't police them all.

[bednobs]

what exactly do you mean by "held to account"?