Sneaky local council...

[xsaravtr]

The messages in the forum about this make for good reading...

http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=11622454&method=full&siteid=50060

[xsaravtr]

This article was in the local paper. The council are crowing about the reduction in accidents from cameras that weren't even working...

Article http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12787053&method=full&siteid=50060

[Scruffy]

Thames Valley police say there are 3.6 billion speeding offences per year.

Right - simple maths, in me head...
That's 650ish speeding offences per year for every man woman and child (and homeless person/vagrant/refugee/prisoner etc) in the country...

Think they exagerate a tad...

[deltaf]

I alone managed 3.7 billion, and that was just on a trip to wales....

[soulpatch]

deltaf said: I alone managed 3.7 billion, and that was just on a trip to wales....

I managed that just driving down the local shops!

[pwig]

hmmmm I wonder who 'Numpty' was?

[skittle]

so heres an interesting statistic.

If there are 3.7 billion speeding offences per year and there are say 5000 road deaths, that equates to a maximum of 1 death per 7400 speeding offences

ie the chance of speeding causing deaths is 0.013%

ie Feck all

[Richard C]

Good point - but the figures are more like

1 speeding death in 1.1 million offences or 0.00009%

[m-five]

Scruffy said: Thames Valley police say there are 3.6 billion speeding offences per year.

Right - simple maths, in me head...
That's 650ish speeding offences per year for every man woman and child (and homeless person/vagrant/refugee/prisoner etc) in the country...

Think they exagerate a tad...

But they are probably counting it as an offence for every minute you are over the limit - i.e. I would incur 180 offences on my trip to London each week because for 3 hours I was above the limit - hence I would accrue 540 points and £10800 of fines per day

However, if I drive through France I can drive above the speed limit for two hours, and pay my nice little fine at the toll booth at the end

[kevinday]

Scruffy said: Thames Valley police say there are 3.6 billion speeding offences per year.

Right - simple maths, in me head...
That's 650ish speeding offences per year for every man woman and child (and homeless person/vagrant/refugee/prisoner etc) in the country...

Think they exagerate a tad...

I don't think they exaggerate, I think I would be fairly safe in betting that over 90% of drivers exceed some speed limit at some point on each journey they make. So 20 million drivers, say an average of 1 journey per day = 7.3 billion trips per year = 6.57 billion speeding offences a year.