Hidden Camera Catches 1000 Speeding Drivers

[mushroom25]

http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Hidden-Saltford-A4-speed-camera-caught-1-000/story-26641793-detail/story.html

legitimate complaints by drivers? if you don't want a ticket, don't speed, surely?

[zebo]

This is akin to my mantra at the chalkface Discipline is what everyone else's children need. Everyone wants to live safely but don't accept the constraints that that requires. In our village there is a band of volunteers who check on speeding motorists, a Speedwatch team. They receive a lot of abuse from those they catch but people still complain about speeding vehicles.
A road cannot determine the speed required to drive on it, near here there's a main road with a 40mph limit as it leaves the village, off that road there is a derestricted side road, little more than a farm track, certainly not driveable at 60mph.

[cazzz1975]

I tend to drive in the speed limits but I find that I am very much in the minority of people, on a 40 dual carriageway I am one of the slowest If I drive at 40. From what I have seen, most people seem to speed.

[youngmafbog]

Isnt the point that the camera's are there to ensure saftey in a dodgy spot?

If so it should be visible so it does it's job. It would be too late if someone gets hurt or injured which is still a problem if a camera is hidden no matter how many are caught.

The other problem with many of these is that they are placed where the speed limit suddenly drops. Now I agree that drivers should be 100% observant but that really is a naive idea that they can be especially if on a journey and trying to find the route. Far better would be to have those flashing reminders then a camera down the road.

Of course if it's all about raising cash rather than safety then my comments are completely void.

And this is not a childish excuse. I do try to obey limits except on Motorways and some dual carriageways.

[Baldric]

I passed my M'cycle test in '67 and my Car test in '69,
sometime in the early 70's I got 3 points for speeding on the M'cycle.
Since then a couple of parking tickets and nothing else.
I don't think I need to make any excuses!

[Bazile]

People are always in a hurry, aren't they .

It 'amuses ' me when you are driving along obeying the speed limit ; and this bloke in his Ford Fiesta , fire engine , speeds up behind you , flashing his lights , then proceed to overtake , so he can arrive at the junction a few seconds before you .

[Baldric]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-115574/Hundreds-speed-cameras-scrapped.html

///Police will be banned from hiding them behind trees, hedges, lamp-posts and road signs. There must also be clear advance warning, giving drivers time to slow down.///

[ToraToraTora]

aleluya praise the lord those siners have been punished they'll not sin again!

[mikey4444]

Bazile...I find that in the circumstances that you describe, that if you slow your speed by at least 5 mph, it irritates the idiot driver behind you even more, while not making much difference to your journey time at all !

[mikey4444]

TTT...on the subject of the section of the M4 in Port Talbot, some driver have now lost their licenses, as they have been caught so many times, ON THE SAME STRETCH OF THE ROAD !

[New Judge]

"I do try to obey limits except on Motorways and some dual carriageways."

Youngmaf !! You and I see eye to eye on many issues. But not this!!!

You can't pick and choose what speed limits you will obey. Imagine this:

"I never steal from shops. Except Tescos and Boots, that is!"

or

"I never hit women. Except my wife and girlfriend, that is!"

It just doesn't work like that !!!

[mikey4444]

Well said NJ !

It seems that some people like using the Jeremy Clarkson excuse.....its my car, I want to drive very fast and it isn't my excuse when I get caught !

[ToraToraTora]

Baldric: "sometime in the early 70's I got 3 points for speeding on the M'cycle" was it also a time machine? the points system started in 1988!

[Baldric]

Might well have been an Endorsement then, long time ago, and comes under the heading of Lack of Interest nowadays!
If you have nothing better to do, you check it out!

[ToraToraTora]

I checked it out, 1988.

[Baldric]

Yep, I checked it as well, it was about 40 years ago, I know I went to court, had to handover or possibly send off my Licence(?) got it back with a big Stamp on one page which stayed put for 3 (?) years

[Prudie]

Well authorities would tell you the purpose of speed cameras is to prevent accidents by making drivers slow down not fine-gathering devices. Hiding it doesn't exactly promote that reasoning.

They don't really have grounds to complain but there must be some drivers on here that agree with me, sometimes 30mph is so slow it's difficult to maintain, you have to really make an effort to keep below the limit.

[mushroom25]

baldric
///Police will be banned from hiding them behind trees, hedges, lamp-posts and road signs. There must also be clear advance warning, giving drivers time to slow down.///

...but on motorways, the new generation of cameras are grey, and very difficult to spot.
http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/29/new-generation-of-stealth-grey-speed-cameras-planned-for-britains-motorways-5041055/

[-Talbot-]

I think they should be hidden...to stop idiots who are doing 40 or less than in a 40 zone slamming their brakes on when they spot the camera.