hedgehog

Turns out that the speed limit in this area is unenforcable so if you have been done by the camera in the village then you should make sure to get your money back and the points off your licence. Paul Smith at Safe Speed summed up the case as follows:

In a case yesterday (19th May 2005) in Spalding Magistrates Court, Lincolnshire the speeding case against Phil Walker was dismissed when it emerged that the speed limit was not valid in law.

The Crown's case related to the prosecution of Mr Philip Walker for an alleged offence of exceeding the 30 mph speed restriction on the A153 Anwick village, Lincolnshire dating back to 2003.

The enforcement was undertaken by a static Truvelo camera system.

The defence called in the services of a signage / speed restriction expert to examine the validity of the prosecution practices and the legal basis of the speed restriction.

The village of Anwick is provided with a system of lighting which was challenged by the defence expert as being incapable in law of providing a restricted road status. His findings led him to conclude that the highway authority had failed in its statutory duty to provide the mandatory signing needed for an enforceable restriction, the Court were therefore, in law, prevented from convicting a motorist of that offence.

Jap2Scrap

So.. The lamp-posts were too far apart or what?

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

it sounds like there was no explicit speed limit sign and the limit was enforced by the distance between lampposts thing that limits your speed to 30mph

Apparition

S'funny, we went through there today and didn't notice any signs or anything.... maybe because the dead sparrows were playing in the air and we sorta were paying more attenton to them and their aerobatics and multi-coloured smoke than to the road ...Tut Tut ...how Norty are we?

Chip Sengravy

okaaaaay, sit down, get comfortable. Tell me about your childhood.

Apparition

AKA = Red Arrows. They were practising their manouvers , their home is just a few fields away. Sorry, always called them that, it goes back to when as a child I was....................

Chip Sengravy

ah!

TBH, I missed the multi coloured smoke and aerobatics bit...I just saw dead spadgers and thought

apologies

Apparition

Apology gratefully accepted . Don't get many of those on here, a valued commodity.

They were very good though. Made me proud to be a Brit. bet they have a brilliant time up there doing their stuff.

Totally missed the road signs.

Chip Sengravy

the red arrowws are


not as good as the russians or yanks though, they crash more often


( but ususlly eject! )

Leslie

I went up with then once-now that was an experience.

Les

Apparition

Awww Les.... you are sooooooo lucky ! I'd risk the brown bag for a ride with those chaps.