MEN wrote:
Foreign speeders' loophole
8/10/2007
FOREIGN drivers got away with more than 1,000 speeding offences in Greater Manchester last year because their vehicles are untraceable.
Cars with foreign plates were responsible for 1,052 speeding offences but the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has no records for the vehicles.
Errr... We've been sayin' this since they came to be!
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Figures obtained by the Manchester Evening News also reveal that the problem is increasing, with one in every 100 speeders now thought to be foreign-registered drivers.
Bosses at Greater Manchester Casualty Reduction Partnership say the speeders are mostly people who have recently moved to Britain or lorry drivers from abroad.
People who move to Britain are allowed 12 months before they must register vehicles with the DVLA.
To combat the problem, police are now loading the numbers of speeding cars with foreign plates on to their Automatic Number Plate Recognition system.
Ah.. but if they are on a foreign licence - there's no reciprocal agreement
(Apart from France who will now write to DVLA according to the Weekend Motoring section in "Le Figaro" of about a month or so ago
)
Besides we're still back to square one as to how accurately them foriegners keep records - given our own DVLA is notoriously inaccurate per all media reports - however luridly written by some of the "RedTops"
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The system will allow police to stop drivers who have previously avoided fines.
Serial speeders could be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice, although it’s understood there are no foreign-registered vehicles repeatedly breaking the law in Greater Manchester.
Nope - just the hits and runs I keep reading of - and who usually vanish without any trace..
If they are found - we usually read they are either under-aged yobs, unlicenced or disqualified for similar dangerous behaviour in the past. We ain't tallking blip or epheremal "carry away for a moment" behaviour - we are talking of the actually dangerous style of driving here - the style which includes driving on the wrong side of the road.. never giving way at
any junction .. cuttting in and genuinely placing everybody else in greater danger than my nurses recently faced by a psychotic moron with a syringe (and he was visiting a patient. All we asked him to do was wash 'his hands
)
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Powers could also be introduced next year which would mean foreign drivers caught breaking the law would be obliged to pay a ‘deposit’ at the roadside. Some UK British drivers have already fallen foul of the system which is being introduced on the continent.
They t-t-target us.
All this talk of millions of cash raked in in the UK and they get the impression we are "somehow a bit dangerous" - when it's far from the truth.
Brits abroad - have to say it - fair game as they don't speak the lingo and tend to drop themselves right in the doo-doo if pulled for something.
Little tip.. before you go.. read "La Code De La Route" Latest one's got pictures
It tells you what the warning signs look like and what their cams look like
Go to the "radarfixes" web site. They have every cam site listed on your route just like here.
Buy a recent map. These show locations of these cams.
Use a Tom Tom etc - with a certain "add on". Sat Nav's perfectly legal and you can always switch off the "certain little feature" and look very inncocent
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National problem
Partnership spokesman Mike Downes said: This is a national problem and as such Greater Manchester Police is working closely with other forces to identify solutions which are fair to all.”
The increase in foreign-registered speeders comes at a time when the total number of speeding offences in Greater Manchester fell by 7,000 last year to 100,780.
I would not claim victory for these cams. You ever tried to drive anything close to the speed limit on some of those roads down there? I've never got past 25 mph on the A6 Stockport in the past
Moving traffic so I would not say "congested warranting a congestion charge"
My brother who works at a hospital in that area tells me that it has not changed ever since we each respectively qualified.
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Brigitte Chaudhry, spokeswoman for RoadPeace, a national charity for road crash victims, said: “It’s wrong that these people escape fines.
Everybody who enters the country with a car should have to give their address.”
Eh? I thought they did... passports
Details at hotels..
Details given at hire car companies
If working here and brought car across - then their details would also be registered somewhere - which brings us back to DVLA record keeping
perhaps.
We are probably not talking of decent.. we are talking of those who probably have no legal right to be here or on our roads in the first place
Or.. if legal - by the time the plate has been traced or the prats think they may just get a few quid - foreigner has probably returned home from his/her hols/trip whatever..
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