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Does any know the requirements (the law) on how and if repeater signs should be placed on sections of roads. My partner is being done for doing 42 mph in a 30mph area. She admits she was doing 40mph because she thought that was the limit in the area.

The section of road has recently had new restrictions applied. The road, single carriageway, unlit. goes from being unrestricted to 40mph (about a mile) then to 30mph. The 30mph signage is clear to read just before you get to it due to being partly hidden by trees / bushes. Approx 500 yards after the 30mph sign there is a right hand bend that brings you into an area with buildings. The "offence" was recorded as this bend was being exited.

Throughout the whole of the 30mph section - approx 1 mile (unlit) there are no repeater signs whatsoever.

My partner said that that she had an idiot " trying to get in her boot" and can only guess that this distracted her has she went past the 30mph sign.

Should there have been repeaters ?

If the road is unlit then there certainly should be repeaters, so your partner on the face of it has a good case.

I suggest you go over to www.pepipoo.com to ask about the best way to proceed.

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A road with a system of street lighting and no repeater signs has a 30mph limit. A road with no street lights and no repeater signs is national speed limit. Any other speed limit requires repeater signs "at regular intervals" - whatever that means.

Here is a good analysis of the speed limit signage requirements:
http://www.abd.org.uk/speed_limit_signs.htm

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Andrew.

A system of street lights is defined as: 3 or more lights less than 183m apart casting light on to the carriage way.

you don't say what the speed was?

No street lights, no repeaters = NSL.

the GUIDELINES for repeaters are >300M apart 30, 400M 40, 800M 50.

I remember reading somewhere that you can't have a normal repeater, it has to be , but maybe I'm wrong about that...

The majority of 30 roads around here have none, and as such I tend to do 30 in 40's sometimes, in roads that I'm unfamiliar with and with bad signage. It's also hard to know sometimes, even if you're being tailgated, as so many people tailgate even when you're 5mph above the limit.

This is a bit off topic, but how do you stand with the law if you have a tailgater and speeding up prevents you from being rear-ended. Or not wanting to slow down due to a tailgater... Slight problem with cameras in that case, as a traffic car would maybe intervene and help you out.

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Mike

That is correct. But of course can only be used if there are cameras to warm you about. This includes mobile sites. Poole & Bournemouth are littered with s - they are everywhere to such an extent that they start to blend in to the background.


You are speeding therefore you murder children. Pay up. No excuses.

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Andrew.

I thought about as much.

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Mike

Sorry, I shouldn't be so harsh. Speeding is an absolute offence. Unless you are a police officer, then 159mph is ok as long as you are 'testing the capabilities of your vehicle'.

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Andrew.