Offences. How many?

[deltaf]

Ok ive been thinking again (yes i know i shouldnt but i was caught off guard ) about the offences recorded on gatsos that have no film inside them, just a flash and a radar.
Im wondering if the "partners" bother to accurately record the numbers of offences registered in this fashion?
For example, they put a radar and flash in their little boxes, and then car drivers and other bad people like bikers and truckers set the thing off and these "offences" are then tallied up as offences recorded.

So, do they collate these offences? What do they do with them? Do they bin em?
Itd be one way of finding out if drivers really were slowing down.

[dimmadan]

the vast majority of cameras dont have flash, radar, film or anything.

If the highway authority want to find vehicles speeds over the course of a day/week/month they would put those loops down which records every vehicles speed, data is gathered that way. This is how the 85%ile is arrived at.

Accident info. is collated from Police records of RTA's. Local councils keep records of data, its sent to them by the police.

[Peter Ward]

dimmadan said:

If the highway authority want to find vehicles speeds over the course of a day/week/month they would put those loops down which records every vehicles speed, data is gathered that way. This is how the 85%ile is arrived at.

I'm a little worried about this. Can we hope that they measure the appropriate time of day? After all, if you measure a rush hour "by accident" then you're going to get a very low 85%ile.

[d-man]

I believe the measurements had to be taken in free flowing traffic. Of course setting of speed limits is now a political weapon and has no practical basis so it doesn't really matter anyway.