Controversial road safety law falls
Election means anti-detector bill runs out of time
Saved by the bill
The main features of the failed bill included:
- Enabled roadside evidential breath testing
- Introduced graduated fixed penalties for speed limit offences
- Banned speed enforcement detection devices
- Added three licence points to mobile phone offences
Safe Speed road safety campaign founder Paul Smith said: "Like many things in road safety, the 'obvious' view often proves to be wrong, and much of this bill was actually likely to make road safety worse. Good riddance!
"The road safety bill represented the culmination and extension of a decade's flawed and oversimplified thinking at the highest levels in UK road safety. National road safety policy over the last decade has been a disaster propped up only with millions of pounds spent on spin and twisted statistics. Any decent policy would have driven road deaths down, but instead we've had the £700 million pound speed camera programme which has actually made the roads more dangerous. Deaths are UP.
"Let's make sure we see the end of oversimplified thinking with the forthcoming general election. We have to get back to the policies that gave us the safest roads in the world in the first place."
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We've had 8 years of New Labour bullshit, but we've had 10 years of speed cameras.
So have you worked out yet who introduced the bloody things in the first place. Yep - Howard's lot. Who also inroduced tax on car insurance. The motorist's friend? I think not.
Time to get the snoopers out of their boxes again grahambell said:
Before you all get carried away with thinking that voting Tory will see the end of speed cameras you might like to consider this.
We've had 8 years of New Labour bullshit, but we've had 10 years of speed cameras.
So have you worked out yet who introduced the bloody things in the first place. Yep - Howard's lot. Who also inroduced tax on car insurance. The motorist's friend? I think not.
Speed cameras were around in Manchester in 1993. It was also the Tories who introduced the fuel tax escalator. The main difference is that the Labour government were only forced into submission by the fuel protests, and that the Labour government has overseen a massive increase in the number of cameras, something I'm not sure that would have happened under the Tories.
sketchytrail said:
Agree in the most part.....but wouldn't the bit adding three points for mobile phone offences have been good
No, because the offence of driving without due care and attention, which attracts 3 points, can be applied in cases where using a mobile can be proved to be the cause of such driving. There was no need for a mobile ban in the first place, the law to deal with it already exists. It's just that B'liar and his cronies just like making more laws to dumb us down still further.
Mad Dave said:
sketchytrail said:
Agree in the most part.....but wouldn't the bit adding three points for mobile phone offences have been good
Yeah, when they introduce the same for lighting up/having a fag behind the wheel.
Can open, worms everywhere...
O.K. I'll not mention it again
It's just the normal frustration that goes along with the fact that so many people are ignoring it because they either think they won't get caught or that it's not really a problem in the first place
More police watching for them would solve the problem at source I suppose....
grahambell said:
Before you all get carried away with thinking that voting Tory will see the end of speed cameras you might like to consider this.
We've had 8 years of New Labour bullshit, but we've had 10 years of speed cameras.
So have you worked out yet who introduced the bloody things in the first place. Yep - Howard's lot. Who also inroduced tax on car insurance. The motorist's friend? I think not.
The tories may have introduced them but who has ABUSED them?
Of all 3 parties the tories are the most driver friendly.
The cameras therefore caught the people that the police were after. HOWEVER since labour got in speed limits had dropped, talivans have appeared, and SCP have ben set up.
They weren't about money in the beginning!
M3BHP said:
So how many more years can we expect these to remain legal - Is it inevitable that the nanny state will eventally outlaw all detectors?
Nothing's inevitable.
It just needs enough people to be active in their dislike for a draconian law for it not to happen. The government will only do something if they can get away with it.
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