Cameras to detect No Seatbelt/Use of mobile phone offenders?

[XMG5]

It seems the government are now proposing that scameras are going to be used to detect drivers using mobile phones or not wearing seatbelts. This was slipped into a television news programme yesterday.

Anyone else hear it?

Does this mean the demise of the BiB? Are they about to be replaced by policing by camera??

>> Edited by XMG5 on Tuesday 7th March 08:40

[XMG5]

[qoute from newspaper] Department of Transport figures released under the Freedom of Information Act indicated that total fine receipts for speeding and traffic light offences detected by camera in 2003-04 were £113.5m, of which nearly £92m was "reinvested in road safety as payments back to ... the police, local highway authorities and magistrates courts". The Treasury retained the balance of nearly £22m. [unquote]

Since when does money handed back to the POLICE and MAGISTRATES COURTS contribute towards road safety? Less police presance on the roads, more policing by scameras?
Magistrates fining motorists who find themselves before the Bench? Where does that improve road safety???

[XMG5]

nel said:

Can they prosecute you for driving along with a banana held to your ear?

Now that's just silly....try a pineapple.

>> Edited by XMG5 on Tuesday 7th March 15:36