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No Discretion said:
No Discretion said...
Now while I agree camaras can play a role in road safety.....dedicated traffic officers is the best policy...
Here here!
If only to assist me at 5am when there are only 2 x Road Policing Cars for the entire county!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at 5am surely they are sitched off as they cannot possibly serve any real purpose?
nonegreen said:
xxplod said:
xxplod said:
No Discretion said...
Now while I agree camaras can play a role in road safety.....dedicated traffic officers is the best policy...
Here here!
If only to assist me at 5am when there are only 2 x Road Policing Cars for the entire county!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at 5am surely they are sitched off as they cannot possibly serve any real purpose?
Are you pulling my leg..?
No Discretion said:
No Discretion said:
xxplod said:
xxplod said:
No Discretion said...
Now while I agree camaras can play a role in road safety.....dedicated traffic officers is the best policy...
Here here!
If only to assist me at 5am when there are only 2 x Road Policing Cars for the entire county!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at 5am surely they are sitched off as they cannot possibly serve any real purpose?
Are you pulling my leg..?
I truly hope its ONLY your leg he's gotten a grip of...
Erm No I am not pulling your leg I cannot seriously believe you think speed cameras serve any purpose at 5am? Who are they protecting? Children who are going to school? Old age pensioners heading for the post office? Tell me please, I would love to know. I have regularly driven to work at this hour and the lack of traffic means most regulations are surplus to requirements I expect the same applies to traffic cops.
Are you talking about cameras or coppers??????????
I'm talking about coppers....
My force after 2am has on average 3 traffic cars (2 x bobbies in each) for the entire county!!!!
So if we have a bump on the motorway.....it takes at least 3 cars to deal with it...
If we have a fatal....we are really pulled out...
Then of course...you've got travelling criminals to deal with.....drink driving campaigns....
and of course assisting beat officer with any pursuits etc...
Not good enough for the public.....4-6 traffic officer for the entire county between 2am and 7am..
I'm talking about coppers....
My force after 2am has on average 3 traffic cars (2 x bobbies in each) for the entire county!!!!
So if we have a bump on the motorway.....it takes at least 3 cars to deal with it...
If we have a fatal....we are really pulled out...
Then of course...you've got travelling criminals to deal with.....drink driving campaigns....
and of course assisting beat officer with any pursuits etc...
Not good enough for the public.....4-6 traffic officer for the entire county between 2am and 7am..
We need more coppers on the road and on the streets, and paperwork must be reduced 
No Discretion said:
Are you talking about cameras or coppers??????????
I'm talking about coppers....
My force after 2am has on average 3 traffic cars (2 x bobbies in each) for the entire county!!!!
So if we have a bump on the motorway.....it takes at least 3 cars to deal with it...
If we have a fatal....we are really pulled out...
Then of course...you've got travelling criminals to deal with.....drink driving campaigns....
and of course assisting beat officer with any pursuits etc...
Not good enough for the public.....4-6 traffic officer for the entire county between 2am and 7am..
I am talking about cameras. Of course the typo (sitched) (Switched) did not help so spologies for that.
So just for clarity then cameras are of no earthly use at 5am other than setting fire to them.
No Discretion said:misleading! Most accidents occur during periods of rush hour (obvious). The most significant cause of accidents during this period has been proven to be fatigue related (not with exceeding the posted limit).
Again...tricky really..
ie: a lot of fatal RTC's occur from 11pm -6am.....
I've pointed this out before, but here it is again:
www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_rdsafety/documents/page/dft_rdsafety_032139.pdf
(look at page 25)
from www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=10&t=133525
Cameras do not benefit safety between 11pm-6am!
supraman2954 said:
Again...tricky really..
ie: a lot of fatal RTC's occur from 11pm -6am.....
misleading! Most accidents occur during periods of rush hour (obvious). The most significant cause of accidents during this period has been proven to be fatigue related (not with exceeding the posted limit).
Hiya supraman..
I'm not sure who i'm misleading...but in the last 12 months in my road policing area...we've had 11 fatal RTCs. 10 of which were after 11pm at night...
Not misleading at all, i'm afraid...
Yes there are loads of bumps at rushhour....fender benders, walking wounded..etc etc..but not many fatal...
No Discretion said:
No Discretion said...
Now while I agree camaras can play a role in road safety.....dedicated traffic officers is the best policy...
Here here!
If only to assist me at 5am when there are only 2 x Road Policing Cars for the entire county!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I keep saying I must get up earlier. That should be a useful aid to pointless speeding.
Er, when I say 'pointless speeding' I mean exceeding the NSL by a fair bit, without me being in receipt of points. That's what it's all about.
Best wishes all,
Dave.
nonegreen said:
Again...tricky really..
ie: a lot of fatal RTC's occur from 11pm -6am.....
Yeah but we both know cameras dont stop them they cause them if anything.
Lets not get into muppetry here...they don't cause them....no way in this world...
What seems to cause them..is people thinking they are Colin McRae to either impress their birds, their mates or because they are late getting somewhere...and drive like absolute tools...
Then again....when the public only see/hear/read what the media gives them....what can I or you expect..?
No Discretion said:
Again...tricky really..
ie: a lot of fatal RTC's occur from 11pm -6am.....
I don't think cameras really help in the majority of these cases. (Specifically - I don't think cameras help at all, but thats a bigger picture).
The papers (local/national) seem to be full of cases of (approx) 17-23ish year olds, fatalities at 2.30am, whatever. How many of these also include drink/drug driving? But they are also just hooning to impress their passengers, and know where the cameras are.
Sad, but they end up being less able than their egos allow, and end up killing carfulls.
Size Nine Elm said:
Again...tricky really..
ie: a lot of fatal RTC's occur from 11pm -6am.....
I don't think cameras really help in the majority of these cases. (Specifically - I don't think cameras help at all, but thats a bigger picture).
The papers (local/national) seem to be full of cases of (approx) 17-23ish year olds, fatalities at 2.30am, whatever. How many of these also include drink/drug driving? But they are also just hooning to impress their passengers, and know where the cameras are.
Sad, but they end up being less able than their egos allow, and end up killing carfulls.
Everything you say is true...
However, the drink/drug thing isn't as big as you'd think...out of those that were killed in the last few months, only one driver was over the limit.
No Discretion said:
Again...tricky really..
ie: a lot of fatal RTC's occur from 11pm -6am.....
Yesterday I was driving past the outskirts of town at around midnight and a drunkard stepped into the middle of the road to flag me down (how many 5 Series taxis do you see I ask you?!) He was wearing all dark clothes as well. Although I saw him very early and manouvred around him it could easily have been messy.
It was worrying on two accounts:
1. I was doing probably 40mph in a 30 = Front page local paper headlines "Speeder kills pedestrian" etc.
2. I've been that drunk many a time myself
Thats all very off-topic anyhow.
No Discretion said:
No Discretion said:
Again...tricky really..
ie: a lot of fatal RTC's occur from 11pm -6am.....
Yeah but we both know cameras dont stop them they cause them if anything.
Lets not get into muppetry here...they don't cause them....no way in this world...
What seems to cause them..is people thinking they are Colin McRae to either impress their birds, their mates or because they are late getting somewhere...and drive like absolute tools...
Then again....when the public only see/hear/read what the media gives them....what can I or you expect..?
Bullshit, cameras kill and scumraship bosses are murderers. You cannot argue with the facts or the odd coroner. Its official so live with it.
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