Inappropriate speeding

[Coupie94]

Sort of a follow on from the 'Driving a car like a t*t' thread;
Live on a residential road, 20 zone, speed humps, primary school opposite. Speeding lately has got pretty chronic- don't get me wrong, I think, and there are probably many others on here who agree that 20 may be too low outside of school hours, but I'm estimating some of these cars are doing at least 45+. One repeat offender is a 20+ year old modified Integra with what sounds like 2 cherry bombs, as the noise even at crawling speeds- which he doesn't do that often- is biblical! Now the noise in isolation I could live with, but the speed he drives up our road, it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt in my opinion. So my question for the PH collective is:does anyone have any advice on how to deal with this sort of issue? Local plod don't seem too interested and based on his driving attitude, he doesn't seem like the type of guy who will listen to reason if I was to pop round to his house one evening for example.
Aside from the usual 'move house' and 'hammer frozen sausages in his lawn' suggestions, any advice would be much appreciated.

[Coupie94]

fiju said:

Mind your own business and let people get on with their lives?

So you're telling me you wouldn't feel exactly the same about some pillock doing twice the speed limit past a primary school every day?

[Coupie94]

fiju said:

Coupie94 said:

So you're telling me you wouldn't feel exactly the same about some pillock doing twice the speed limit past a primary school every day?

Nope.

1. Kids shouldn't be in the middle of the road.
2. If you hang about in the middle of the road you're going to get run over.
3. Cars don't drive on pavements.

And what about when someone crosses the road and misjudges the speed of the car? Or said car loses control at a high speed and ploughs into someone?.. Actually, you know what, it's fairly obvious you're either trolling, trying to get some kind of reaction, or you're actually the pr*ck in the integra. And going off your previous posts you probably need to hand your licence back to whichever cereal company sold you the packet.

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Court_S said:

I don’t think there’s an awful lot you can do other than have a word if you know where he lives if the police aren’t interested.

Have you ever done this before and it's worked? I'm not a powerfully built company director like some on this forum so cant go down the intimidation route 😂

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Mr lestat said:

You will get a little joy or support on this site for comments like that I’m afraid.

I thought this forum would be more supportive if anything, and as I said in my OP i think 20 is probably a little low outside of school hours. Don't get me wrong, I'm guilty of going a few mph over on quiet b roads or whatever, but a residential road with speed bumps is extracting the urine somewhat.

Hope you manage to sort out your speeding issue too!

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Court_S said:

Coupie94 said:

Have you ever done this before and it's worked? I'm not a powerfully built company director like some on this forum so cant go down the intimidation route ??

I’m not talking about intimidation, I was more thinking trying to talk to him in a sensible fashion. But judging by some of your replies on here, it seems you may struggle with that a tad.

If the coppers don’t want to get involved and you want to resolve it, one of your only sensible options is to try talking to him. Try not to be condescending etc. It may get through, it may not.

Not at all- I'm sorry if I gave off that impression- unfortunately some of the trolls bring out the worst in me!

I'm all up for it but based on his driving and general attitude my worry is I'd be met with 'none of your business' and 'it's a free country' type- responses. I may be stereotyping but this is based on a few factors, and also previous experience with similar characters unfortunately. I'm not trying to make excuses, I'm just concerned anything I do won't make the slightest bit of difference.

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Riley Blue said:

Glasgowrob said:

Local councillor
Local MP
Ask the school to speak to the police

Lots you can do

Good suggestions to which I would add gather support from neighbours and contact the school governors.

I'll try these next I think. I managed to get in touch with our local PCSO who caught 7 people in an hour with the speed gun the other week. He did say he'd try and have a word with repeat offenders if I could provide details so I gave him the reg number but no update since. Because we're near the river and there's some parks around there's always people with prams, dogs, kids on bikes etc, and having spoken to a couple of neighbours they're all as sick of the general speeding issue as I am, so I'll see if i can get some support that way as well.

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pingu393 said:

Is it possible to narrow the road, or will that just add to the challenge?

It seems to work round here.

Cars used to park on one side of the road with wheels just on the pavement.

Loonies drove too fast, so the cars came off the pavement.

Now the cars are staggered on each side of the road and you can't go much above 15mph.

It is a wide road where we are, but there are speed bumps anyway- not full width ones though. Saying that, even when it does get narrower due to parked cars, people don't seem to mind risking their wing mirrors trying to break the land speed record before the end of the road...

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Update: went to talk to the owner of the car. As expected, he was a complete throbber: "I don't go over the speed limit"- lie "it passed the mot"- with an advisory about a noisy exhaust "I'm getting baffles fitted"- whatever that means. Looks like we're stuck with a noisy neighbour for the foreseeable- unless the PH collective has any more advice for this situation?