Speed Camera Stats
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From www.autoexpress.co.uk
otoring groups are up in arms after the latest figures revealed more than two million motorists have been nabbed by speed cameras in the past 12 months. The rising number of cameras has seen the amount of tickets issued rise more than twenty fold in some areas. In Northamptonshire 100,000 speeding fines were dished out, compared to just 4,000 in 1999, while in Essex 100 new cameras saw tickets numbers rise from 1,000 to 70,000 during the same period.
Groups such as the RAC and the Association of British Drivers are calling for the cameras to only be positioned outside schools and in 30mph zones, and not at sites that will produce the greatest revenue.
otoring groups are up in arms after the latest figures revealed more than two million motorists have been nabbed by speed cameras in the past 12 months. The rising number of cameras has seen the amount of tickets issued rise more than twenty fold in some areas. In Northamptonshire 100,000 speeding fines were dished out, compared to just 4,000 in 1999, while in Essex 100 new cameras saw tickets numbers rise from 1,000 to 70,000 during the same period.
Groups such as the RAC and the Association of British Drivers are calling for the cameras to only be positioned outside schools and in 30mph zones, and not at sites that will produce the greatest revenue.
hmmmm. And what chance do you think there will be of them putting cameras outside schools? after all they only want to cut child deaths, so the obvious way is to put cameras on fast roads, not round town, and certainly not where there are children! 
This seems like Autoexpress being a good voice of the people, but will the money grabbers in charge want to lose all the revenue???
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This seems like Autoexpress being a good voice of the people, but will the money grabbers in charge want to lose all the revenue???
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Cynical, but I agree 100% - I can practically see the car-haters and 'think of the children' mob rubbing their lentlist hands in glee at the prospect of upping the ante with the latest report of angelic ickle child being killed by heinous motorist whilst innocently playing hopscotch on the dual carriageway..
AlexH said: They wouldn't put them outside schools as a few child deaths will keep up the momentum of their scheme.
CarZee said:If you talked to the right lentlists, you might even be able to pick up commission
Animal said: Does this mean that if I stump up the cash in advance I get to mow down some of the foul-mouthed little knuckle-dragger spawn that walk past my house twice a day?
Gosh, I am shocked at your cynisism.
Why else do you think that dangerous/drink drivers who kill and maim pedestrians get off lightly, but speeders on deserted roads get banged up? It's because the Lentlists has be comissioning these attacks for years.
Captain Muppet said:
Gosh, I am shocked at your cynisism.
Why else do you think that dangerous/drink drivers who kill and maim pedestrians get off lightly, but speeders on deserted roads get banged up? It's because the Lentlists has be comissioning these attacks for years.
Funny you should say that because I've been getting the feeling lately that the Lentlists (love that word!) now regard speeding as more unacceptable than drunk or dangerous driving... could this have anything to do with the fact the neither of the other two offenses can be caught by cameras?
I think a general campaign of annoyance to the camera operators is the way to go. We (the right thinking motorist, not just PHers) should get some very sticky stickers made up about the size of the lens on a Gatso, saying "tax camera" or something similar and stick them on the lenses of every camera we see. Probably wouldn't get done for criminal damage if you get caught as you're not actually damaging anything(unlikely to get caught anyway), but still puts a camera temporarily out of use and would generally get the message accross that we've had enough. I think once people started to see cameras "stickered" some would join in and the thing could gain enough momentum to make using the camera's practically impossible.
sparkey said: I think a general campaign of annoyance to the camera operators is the way to go. We (the right thinking motorist, not just PHers) should get some very sticky stickers made up about the size of the lens on a Gatso, saying "tax camera" or something similar and stick them on the lenses of every camera we see. Probably wouldn't get done for criminal damage if you get caught as you're not actually damaging anything(unlikely to get caught anyway), but still puts a camera temporarily out of use and would generally get the message accross that we've had enough. I think once people started to see cameras "stickered" some would join in and the thing could gain enough momentum to make using the camera's practically impossible.
Wouldn't they do you for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice or some such cobblers?
>> Edited by AlexH on Thursday 31st October 15:34
Possibly, but how likely is it that you would get caught ? And if thousands of people are doing it then it's unlikely that they'll try and prosecute anyone ? It would work best if it was done nationally somehow and all the stickers were the same so that the government would get the message that it's not just a few people that are annoyed, but it's a general opinion with a large proportion of the population. It should also not be done to cameras in a valid position in a built up area, near schools etc, but only to those (the majority) that are clearly tax machines.
Quote: "the latest figures revealed more than two million motorists have been nabbed by speed cameras in the past 12 months."
And as we all know, speed kills, so presumably these two million speeding motorists were involved in two million accidents? What, they weren't...?
Basically proves the whole "safety" camera thing to be the load of bollocks we all know it to be.
And as we all know, speed kills, so presumably these two million speeding motorists were involved in two million accidents? What, they weren't...?
Basically proves the whole "safety" camera thing to be the load of bollocks we all know it to be.
sparkey said:
... should get some very sticky stickers made up about the size of the lens on a Gatso, saying "tax camera" or something similar and stick them on the lenses of every camera we see. Probably wouldn't get done for criminal damage if you get caught as you're not actually damaging anything...
So if I break into your house and paint every room bright orange, its not criminal damage since I'm not actually damaging anything? Hmmm...
Size Nine Elm said:
sparkey said:
... should get some very sticky stickers made up about the size of the lens on a Gatso, saying "tax camera" or something similar and stick them on the lenses of every camera we see. Probably wouldn't get done for criminal damage if you get caught as you're not actually damaging anything...
So if I break into your house and paint every room bright orange, its not criminal damage since I'm not actually damaging anything? Hmmm...
Decorating with intent?
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