Speed limits on private land? Unenforceable?

[revvingit]

Is there anyway those daft 5mph/10mph signs on camp sites/caravan parks and in supermarket car parks that nobody obeys and other such private land can be enforced? Or are they just bks?

[Eyersey1234]

AFAIK a 5mph speed limit is unenforceable. One of the bus stations I drive into has a theoretical 5mph speed limit, they make a big thing of the limit but there is only one sign at one end saying it, there's nothing at the other end nor is there a sign to say you are going from a 5mph to a 30mph limit.

[Efbe]

As far as I know, the road traffic act does apply to private land that is publicly accessible, however the signage would not have a traffic regulation order, so would be guidance only.

That being said, if anything happened, or even if a policeman so thought, you could be done for speeding there under driving without due care and consideration, and in an insurance claim it would be most definitely used against you.

[TooMany2cvs]

It is not legally enforceable, in that you cannot get a police-issued speeding ticket.
It is enforceable, in that you can be turfed off the private premises.

Don't be a dick.

[QuickQuack]

What 2cvs said.

I once allowed someone in the village to use our field for a bit of fun. Unfortunately, they decided to be dicks, and annoy both me and others due to speeding and noise. I turfed them off and they haven't been back on there ever again, despite promising they wouldn't repeat the same behaviour. On another occasion, we allowed someone else to use the field for a different purpose. They left behind a load of crap and caused damage to the soil. Despite having allowed the field to be used for this annually for some years, that one episode has meant that it isn't happening any more.

Moral of the story is that if you're acting like an ahole on privately owned land, expect to be chucked off and not to be able to use it ever again. A speed limit they set may not be "legally enforceable" so you won't have to pay a fine or receive points, but they can legally kick you off and bar you from using it.

[Willy Nilly]

TooMany2cvs said:

It is not legally enforceable, in that you cannot get a police-issued speeding ticket.
It is enforceable, in that you can be turfed off the private premises.

Don't be a dick.

This, it's a caravan park, not a rally stage.

[BertBert]

Interesting that from a simple question, the OP seems to be speeding villain of the century. What a strange place this is.
Bert

[Riley Blue]

BertBert said:

Interesting that from a simple question, the OP seems to be speeding villain of the century. What a strange place this is.
Bert

I see no evidence of that; this is indeed a strange place.

[Wacky Racer]

Willy Nilly said:

This, it's a caravan park, not a rally stage.

There was a 5mph speed limit on Hayle Caravan club in Cornwall site a few years back, and I said to the warden "That's a bit low isn't it?"

He explained a five year old girl had been knocked down the year before, don't know how badly injured she was.

Sometimes you DO have to think of the children.