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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Cameras are for detecting speed not preventing accidents |
| eeldu1 |
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 09:20
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| My views are not representative of the Safespeed site but those of a driver who has driven for 36 years, in all sorts of conditions, at all times of the day and night on every type of road, in most types of vehicle and in that time covered well over a million miles, so knows a little bit about what ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Cameras are for detecting speed not preventing accidents |
| eeldu1 |
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 00:14
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| Yes it all very well saying let the coppers get amongst the dangerous careless etc but they just do not do that these days; there are no old sweats in the Police anymore to show the young how to detect a speed dangerous - ask any copper when was the last time he booked anyone for a 'witness' dangero... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Cameras are for detecting speed not preventing accidents |
| eeldu1 |
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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 20:45
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| When Cameras were thought of they were and still are I believe there simply to enforce the speed Limits not to have a prime function of cutting accidents - the mere fact that they are installed, it slows dirvers down to the speed limt for that particl;uer road; if it helps to prevent accidents then ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Speed camera switch-off sees fewer accidents |
| eeldu1 |
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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 19:43
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| Re the furore on Speed cameras Lets go back to the beginning of time! In 1930, the Road Traffic Act of the day introduced Speed Limits throughout the country and who was responsible for seeing those limits were obeyed ----- the then Police Forces. Now in my time as a Met Police traffic cop for 22 ye... |
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