Letter sent to North Wales (s)camera partnership
Discussion
Lets see if they can pull their heads out of arse long enough to answer...
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Dear Beth,
I am sorry to have to contact you as an outraged member of the public.
With interest I took a brief look at your safety camera partnership website. As a long distance driver of some mileage now and seeing the poor quality of driving on the roads on a daily basis I am always on the lookout for things that would cut accident rates and cause result in safer driving habits.
Of course I am horrified to see that your site also has this misguided obsession with speed. Obviously having the chief constable richard b*runstrom(I am not going to dignify the title with capital letters or correct spelling) that you do who clearly has some serious psychological issues regarding driving it is not suprising.
On a brief drive through North Wales I saw over 10 (s)camera vans. Also on that brief drive I had someone drive right into the side of me at a roundabout. Were they exceeding the speed limit? No. Were they not paying attention? Yes. Would your (s)camera vans have caught them? NO.
I wouldnt be so upset about all this if I knew that for every speeding driver caught, there would be a lane hogger prosecuted, and a roundabout lane cutter fined, but no.
Even your OWN FIGURES on the website admit that only 1 in 3 collisions speed was a "major" factor, however you seem to have done everything you can in catching speeding drivers. So are you by action admitting that the other 2 in 3 circumstances are ok? Dangerous driving is fully acceptable and speeding is not?
Great! In that case I will pick a really busy town center and drive at bang on 29.5MPH through it. Therefore I am safe because I am not speeding? And please dont insult my intelligence by saying that I would be caught. BY WHAT??? A LASER VAN?? I dont see and traffic police around so I will drive as recklessly as I want now knowing that I have the full support of the safety (s)camera partnership.
Of COURSE speed is a contributry factor in accidents!!! If everyone stood still there would be no momentum therefore nothing could collide!
I did a brief poll around my office, a few clients, parents, grandparents etc. About 70 people among a cross section of "middle" and "upper" UK citizens. WITHOUT EXCEPTION it has been agreed that the placement and use of these (s)cameras are at best a hinderence and a money making scheme with no regard to safety. And knowing that your force thinks that drugs should be allowed, its good to know where I can go to waste my years away on drugs once you have taken my and many thousands of other livelyhood away from the horrendous crime of exceeding the speed limit by 10%+2.
You have LOST support of the general public. All you have left are the radical suckers who probably dont drive anyway.
Please continue to bring in the laser vans and the fixed cameras, I will get a car with cruise control and drive how I like knowing that, speed kills and if I dont speed I cannot be hurt.
Another interesting point is that even though speeds across the country have dropped, accidents have risen?! Makes a mockery of your whole effort doesnt it....
Regards,
Gh0st
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Dear Beth,
I am sorry to have to contact you as an outraged member of the public.
With interest I took a brief look at your safety camera partnership website. As a long distance driver of some mileage now and seeing the poor quality of driving on the roads on a daily basis I am always on the lookout for things that would cut accident rates and cause result in safer driving habits.
Of course I am horrified to see that your site also has this misguided obsession with speed. Obviously having the chief constable richard b*runstrom(I am not going to dignify the title with capital letters or correct spelling) that you do who clearly has some serious psychological issues regarding driving it is not suprising.
On a brief drive through North Wales I saw over 10 (s)camera vans. Also on that brief drive I had someone drive right into the side of me at a roundabout. Were they exceeding the speed limit? No. Were they not paying attention? Yes. Would your (s)camera vans have caught them? NO.
I wouldnt be so upset about all this if I knew that for every speeding driver caught, there would be a lane hogger prosecuted, and a roundabout lane cutter fined, but no.
Even your OWN FIGURES on the website admit that only 1 in 3 collisions speed was a "major" factor, however you seem to have done everything you can in catching speeding drivers. So are you by action admitting that the other 2 in 3 circumstances are ok? Dangerous driving is fully acceptable and speeding is not?
Great! In that case I will pick a really busy town center and drive at bang on 29.5MPH through it. Therefore I am safe because I am not speeding? And please dont insult my intelligence by saying that I would be caught. BY WHAT??? A LASER VAN?? I dont see and traffic police around so I will drive as recklessly as I want now knowing that I have the full support of the safety (s)camera partnership.
Of COURSE speed is a contributry factor in accidents!!! If everyone stood still there would be no momentum therefore nothing could collide!
I did a brief poll around my office, a few clients, parents, grandparents etc. About 70 people among a cross section of "middle" and "upper" UK citizens. WITHOUT EXCEPTION it has been agreed that the placement and use of these (s)cameras are at best a hinderence and a money making scheme with no regard to safety. And knowing that your force thinks that drugs should be allowed, its good to know where I can go to waste my years away on drugs once you have taken my and many thousands of other livelyhood away from the horrendous crime of exceeding the speed limit by 10%+2.
You have LOST support of the general public. All you have left are the radical suckers who probably dont drive anyway.
Please continue to bring in the laser vans and the fixed cameras, I will get a car with cruise control and drive how I like knowing that, speed kills and if I dont speed I cannot be hurt.
Another interesting point is that even though speeds across the country have dropped, accidents have risen?! Makes a mockery of your whole effort doesnt it....
Regards,
Gh0st
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