M4 Junction 15 'Safety Van'
M4 Junction 15 'Safety Van'
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ditomaso

Original Poster:

241 posts

253 months

Monday 29th October 2007
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Yeah - of course!

I wish someone would explain why there was a 'safety van' sat on a motorway bridge just prior to Junction 15 M4 - looks like it was trying to catch speeders coming down the hill!

Damn ridiculous. I've been driving that stretch of road for the last 11 years and I cannot remember seeing a safety van on that junction. It was obvious it was trying to catch speedsters coming down the hillfurious

Did anyone catch that van? and just what consitutes safety? I cannot remember any accidents on that particular spot - certainly not heading down the hill

Puggit

49,829 posts

279 months

Monday 29th October 2007
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There's been plenty of accidents on that stretch since they started putting the vans there.

Did you know that one of the accidents that the scameraship used to justify the vans was pedestrian committing suicide by jumping off a bridge?

deeps

5,432 posts

272 months

Monday 29th October 2007
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They've been sitting on the M4 bridges since April 2005.

From the horses mouth, they cover a point approximately  2.1 km east of junction 17 to a point approximately  7.6 km east of junction 15. The only reason you haven't seen them before is down to sheer good luck!

I recently asked the Wilts SCP how many collisions have happened due to excess speed, I'm just about to start another thread with their answer.



 
 

babelfish

1,020 posts

238 months

Monday 29th October 2007
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Puggit said:
There's been plenty of accidents on that stretch since they started putting the vans there.
Caused by panic braking when drivers spot the van?

ditomaso

Original Poster:

241 posts

253 months

Monday 29th October 2007
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deeps said:
They've been sitting on the M4 bridges since April 2005.

From the horses mouth, they cover a point approximately  2.1 km east of junction 17 to a point approximately  7.6 km east of junction 15. The only reason you haven't seen them before is down to sheer good luck!

I recently asked the Wilts SCP how many collisions have happened due to excess speed, I'm just about to start another thread with their answer.



 
 
I would like to know the answer. I can't ever remember not getting access to Junction 15 from the A417/9 because of an accident between Junction 14 and Junction 15. Between Hungerford and Swindon the m4 is very quiet

philbes

4,894 posts

265 months

Tuesday 30th October 2007
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Puggit said:
There's been plenty of accidents on that stretch since they started putting the vans there.

Did you know that one of the accidents that the scameraship used to justify the vans was a pedestrian committing suicide by jumping off a bridge?
And another was a van blown over in a high wind.

pmanson

13,388 posts

284 months

Tuesday 30th October 2007
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philbes said:
Puggit said:
There's been plenty of accidents on that stretch since they started putting the vans there.

Did you know that one of the accidents that the scameraship used to justify the vans was a pedestrian committing suicide by jumping off a bridge?
And another was a van blown over in a high wind.
Shame it wasn't a scamera van....

If they were really sly they could around having accidents with their own vans, then suddenly the scamera van's could appear to save us all.

Tcensoredrs the lot of them