Gixxer wrote:
cotswold wrote:
Meanwhile car behind doesn't see camera and bang !! Straight up the car in front....
Seen it happen.....
That scenario is a regular weekly occurence on the A3 near the Tolworth junction.
The A3 is 3 lanes wide and used to be a NSL. Before the camera's went up, I had personally never seen any accidents at that particular site (and I use the A3 every day).
As soon as the camera's went up, the speed limit was dropped to 50mph and that is when the accidents started occuring. These aren't "small" accidents that occur either (for the insurance companies anyway), I have counted up to 20 vehicles on one occasion that have shunted in to each other as a result of the "domino" effect.
If camera's are meant to save lives etc, then surely even the most brain dead of individuals can see that the camera's on the A3 are causing more accident's than ever before when they start looking at the stats.
I used that stretch of road daily at all times of the day and night when working out of chesington industrial estate for 4 years before and 3 years after then new speed restriction and cameras whent in. and without a doubt I saw more accidents after the speed limit was dropped.
And the justification for the speed restriction was a bus stop on the A3 just at the crest of a hill (where then only accidents other than a suicide I saw in the 4 years before the cameras and speed limit dropped happened).
And that was removed 6 weeks after the speed restriction was introduced and the bus rerouted. So they replaced a bus that was some times on the road and causing an obstruction and making people brake hard if they caught sight of it late with a camera that’s always there and always making people brake or slowing the traffic down so much it a tail to tail bumper fest.
And not only is that section of road IMO more dangerous now but it is a hell of a lot more congested than ever before I just think it is daft.
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