Camera Vans: not obvious enough and a danger to drivers?

[ellroy]

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11376404.4_boys_re...

A little excessive if you want rid of them.

Kamikaze smoggy teen drivers.

[PaulD86]

Seems a bit bizarre. I'd love to know the full story. I once had to slam on the brakes and take evasive action to avoid a head on with a camera van on a country road that was half on my side of the road on a poorly sighted bend. It's a route they use often and I've seen the van cross onto the wrong side of the road at the spot before. Would be interesting to know the police response if it ever meets someone unable to avoid it.

[elanfan]

PaulD86 said:

Seems a bit bizarre. I'd love to know the full story. I once had to slam on the brakes and take evasive action to avoid a head on with a camera van on a country road that was half on my side of the road on a poorly sighted bend. It's a route they use often and I've seen the van cross onto the wrong side of the road at the spot before. Would be interesting to know the police response if it ever meets someone unable to avoid it.

Why don't you pre-empt it by pointing it out to your local Police HQ - it doesn't need to be a 'complaint' as such. If an accident does then occur they'd be in a bit of trouble having been forewarned.

[Knock_knock]

Err, guys:

"The Corsa was heading towards Chop Gate when it collided with the safety camera van, which was heading towards Great Broughton."

This was a collision between two vehicles being driven on road in opposite directions. Whether it was a camera van, a camper van, or a delivery van full of pies seems to make little difference to this set of circumstances.

[anonymous-user]

There are vans with pies? Why wasn't I told?

[anonymous-user]

Gotta love the thread title. A Corsa (yes, a Corsa) loaded with four teenagers (yes, four teenagers) has a prang, and that is somehow evidence that camera vans are dodgy, dangerous, invisible, driven by Illuminati space lizards, you name it. For those who see driving at whatever speed they like as a fundamental human right (sorry, THE fundamental human right), anything and everything is evidence that speed enforcement is much, much worse than Nazism and almost as bad as daytime television.

[PaulD86]

elanfan said:

Why don't you pre-empt it by pointing it out to your local Police HQ - it doesn't need to be a 'complaint' as such. If an accident does then occur they'd be in a bit of trouble having been forewarned.

I had considered it as I wasn't impressed by the standard of driving on a few occasions (no one is perfect, I'm not professing to be a saint, but when driving a stickered up camera van one would expect the driver to display fairly impeccable driving behaviour). But then I thought it would likely be viewed by the police as just someone unhappy about speed camera vans... which I'll admit that I am, though on this occasion my ill feelings towards them have nothing to do with the complain. Anyway, I now take a different route home from work most days so I don't see it now.

And to clarify, I echo the sentiment of others that the thread title is rather amusing and that I don't for a moment think that the vans are dangerous, I was just commenting on one I'd seen being driven badly a few times.

[ellroy]

Breadvan72 said:

Gotta love the thread title.

Try reading it with your tounge in your cheek and let me know how that works for you?

[anonymous-user]

ellroy said:

Try reading it with your tounge in your cheek and let me know how that works for you?

I am not sure where I would find a tounge. Is it the sort of thing I might find if I went into a loungue?

[HertsBiker]

I paced a speeding camera van on the m11, it was doing 95mph. I wasn't impressed and gave it the coffee beans when it merged onto the m25. Hypocrisy really boils my urine.