Oh no... not another survey

[zoom_jones]

There's a link here to a survey that attempts to summise the most commonly occuring elements of being caught and prosecuted for speeding:

www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB2EQREMJTA

[KITT]

The DOB field doesn't go beyond 1990 which makes the penultimate question one a bit tricky

[zumbruk]

It's a heap of cack. You can't specify any dates prior to 1990. I passed my driving test in 1971. And I was born a *long* time before 1990.

[puggit]

Passed in 2020, born in 2020 - that's me

[zoom_jones]

OK OK.... sorry!! (ducks for cover...)

New one now at:

www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2ER67MSM

Damned zoomerang and its date formatting!

[zoom_jones]

Those interested in the survey you can access it here:
www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2ER67MSM

I'll be publishing the full results within 10 days, but a summary of the results so far:

43% of respondents were prosecuted for speeding in the UK within the last 10 years.

45% of those prosecuted were caught speeding in 30 limit.

57% of those prosecuted were caught speeding on an A road.

31% said when they were caught that conditions were 'quiet'

Only 7% said the conditions were something other than wet or rainy.

of those prosecuted 0% were offered driver training instead of points.

44% were caught using mobile camera technology or talivans...

It seems you have more chance of being pulled over for speeding (26%) than being caught by a Gatso (23%).

Only 8% of all participants were committed of another motoring offence that wasn't speed related. It certainly seems to show that bad driving goes unoticed and speeding is penalised regardless.

Keeping a national database would also help us to spot trends in prosecution, and we could know for sure how much the government was generating from them!

Once again, I don't condone speeding. I just report the facts. I feel a national database where motorists could log their speeding incidents with more detail would give all the ammo needed in arguing that speeding detection is unjust and unfair.

[HiAsAKite]

I think the dates on that survey are b0!!ocks.. seeing as you can't put in DOBs before 1990 apparantly none of the completers should be driving...


And why do they need to to know your time or birth and test???.. are they trying to track you down or something?