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Author Topic: Speed cameras catch one driver - yes one!  (Read 977 times)

Offline Wizzo

Speed cameras catch one driver - yes one!
« on: July 21, 2008, 06:31:13 PM »
Local authorities set up the Specs average speed cameras, which are becoming an increasingly common sight on British roads, two months ago but have since only snared one driver.

32 cameras are understood to have been set up to monitor traffic in both directions of the A2, between Bangor and Holywood.

The only other place that the ‘Speed Safety Enforcement Camera System’ has been set up in Northern Ireland is on the A1 outside Newry.

Over the two years the cameras have been operating in that location 77 drivers have been caught for speeding.

What a waste of money!


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Offline Alianora La Canta

Re: Speed cameras catch one driver - yes one!
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2008, 09:40:17 PM »
Evidently the new camera does work. If only one person has been caught, then everyone else has been driving at a sensible speed - and even better, hardly anyone is paying extra for the priviledge once the set-up costs are paid. It's a lot cheaper than monitoring the speed limit with a policeman, that's for certain!
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Offline cosworth151

Re: Speed cameras catch one driver - yes one!
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2008, 01:34:53 PM »
Most lkely what happened over here. Everybody slowed down past the cameras, then floored it to make up for the lost time. Much better than a traffic cop, because you always know exactly where they are.

At least until some good citizen shot the cameras.
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Offline Scott

Re: Speed cameras catch one driver - yes one!
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2008, 03:24:09 PM »
I remember Pat Bedard writing in a column years ago that the last picture one of those cameras will take will be a masked man pointing a shotgun at it.   >:D
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Re: Speed cameras catch one driver - yes one!
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2008, 11:06:21 PM »
I have noticed that ever since the cost of fuel shot up so drastically everyone, well most, are driving slower than a year ago.

On a recent trip on the M1 and M6 I was averaging 70 to 75 mph and almost no one went past me, or if they did it was only 3 or 4 mph more.

Then again the next weekend I went from london on the M11 and A11 to Norfolk and on the A11 which is dual carraigeway I was averaging 65 to 68 and very few went past although the road was busy.

For most of us now with the cost of fuel and the impending hike in roadtax charges means that an extra charge for a speeding fine might well price us off the road.

Looks like the only up side to the oil crisis is speed cameras might become redundant as no income from fines means they may switch them off.

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