Matt P

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4117503.stm

gso

double points too

Regulator

Surely, if the points were "seconds apart" wouldn't it be impossible to miss the second camera giving you points, as its hard to slow down that fast. Thus proving its a fund raising scheme more than safety.

King RA

Absolutely disgusting. People should smash into the bloody vans (when I say people I mean big f**k off lorries with bullbars )

Matt P

I particularly liked "Steve Callaghan, of the Cumbria Safety Camera Partnership, said the scheme was not designed to "set traps". " What exactly is it designed to do then??

scoobynutta555

Complete w@nkers.

When will these people learn that these vans etc pose more of a hazard that what they prevent. Wonder how many accidents are caused by people looking for these traps rather than other traffic etc. I have a better idea to reduce traffic accidents, ban cars totally and let everybody walk everywhere. Feckin nanny state, where will it end, a bloke with a red flag walking in front of the car like 100 years ago?

messiah

Typical for Cumbria - the tw@ts will probably stick them both on my run to work

davegtt

well if you get caught speeding through 1 if you get caught by another seconds later you've obviously not learnt your lesson and deserved to be caught again

MattW

This is wrong, it would be regarded as the same offence in a court of law.

tonybooth

Lets send him a few e-mails with our thoughts: -

steve.callaghan@cumbriasafetycameras.org



TONY

scoobynutta555

"When will you people learn that these "safety camera" (yeah right) vans etc pose more of a hazard that what they prevent. Wonder how many accidents are caused by people looking for these traps, and constantly eyeing speedos rather than other traffic etc. I have a better idea to reduce traffic accidents, ban cars totally and let everybody walk everywhere. Nanny state, where will it end, a bloke with a red flag walking in front of the car like 100 years ago?

Get a grip on some real police work, and if you want to increase road safety persue non insured, non mot'd, non licenced drivers who are much more likely to have an accident and who dont care about being on film."

SENT

Chrisgr31

What this proves is that speed cameras do not work!

The intention is slow the traffic and they don;t do it, if they did then they wouldn;t need two close to each other!

King RA

I kept it short, but sweet:

Hi,

Your an idiot.

Regards,

Scott.

King RA

damn, returned:

PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 554 Sorry, message looks like SPAM to me

Senior_AP

Don't speed.

Easy.

King RA

Easy to suggest, difficult to do.

darts_aint_sport

Surely it's as easy as speeding.

King RA

I'd say a little easier, just a little

Senior_AP

People that "worry" about speed camss do so as they speed often and they know it.

I have had points before. I accepted them because I was going faster than a "limit". The limit is then MAXIMUM, not a suggested speed. As such, my points have made me slow down and I have learnt my lesson.

My only problem with cameras is ill advised positioning.

Nick100

It was Jim Davidson who received two speeding tickets about 30 minutes apart and claimed he hadn't slowed down, so they were prosecuting him twice for the same offence

Can't be done !

Senior_AP

That's a valid point and potential loophole.

To summarize, it's better to keep your speed up than slow down and speed up again.

If his speed was consistent it means he broke the law "once">

However - if this is not the case, they could have 10 camers on a 1 mile strip and people could get 800 points within 50 seconds!!!!!


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