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To be honest speed camera's in the right places make a lot of sense, outside schools, small villages used as cut through's etc. But most seem to be placed in area's where there is little danger and where they won't be safety related but revenue generating.

If they got the balance right, I don't if anybody would complain.
 
poggy said:
To be honest speed camera's in the right places make a lot of sense, outside schools, small villages used as cut through's etc. But most seem to be placed in area's where there is little danger and where they won't be safety related but revenue generating.

If they got the balance right, I don't if anybody would complain.
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But they are no use if somebody isn't speeding but is say DUI, but not speeding, yet mows down a load of kid's coming out of school as they have no time to react what with being drunk, this could have been prevented with more traffic cops, a speed camera can't do **** in cases like this.
 
I don't get it?

A speed camera can't do that, no, nor can it cook dinner for you, on the other hand, the police haven't got x-ray vision but x-ray machines at airports have, but x-ray machines at airports can't catch a running man...a policeman's baton can't work seek out drugs on an arrested indvidual, and the CS spray won't do much good being used as a light, a tourch helps for that.

A speed camera is designed to be "a speed camera", nothing more, nothing less, just because it can't tell you if somebody is DUI doesn't mean it's not useful for catching speeding motorists. Which it is.
 
unfortunatly we need speed limit enforcement.yes i agree some are in stupid places but the levels of ignorance i see every day on the roads shows we need something.
eg the saxo driver on thrusday doing approx 60mph+(30 zone with 20 mph zone at the school) leaving a roundabout approaching a primary school & public library with a park & nursary on the other side of the road!
this was at lunch time on damp roads.
thats what you have to try and police
these are the type
 
I have signed it, speed limits make no sense at all, more traffic police are needed and all the points made above would be answered by more and better policing. Now Traffic Police cost money and Cameras raise it, so which do our dear leaders choose.... yeah thought so.
p.s. I keep meaning to start a thread about speed limits
 
Not to mention the ones who brake hard just before the camera, or even worse the ones who will brake even if they're not above the limit - just to avoid that fine.

Dangerous things that should be removed throught the country - Durham and Cumbria have shown there are better ways to do it.
 
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Not to mention the ones who brake hard just before the camera, or even worse the ones who will brake even if they're not above the limit - just to avoid that fine.

Dangerous things that should be removed throught the country - Durham and Cumbria have shown there are better ways to do it.
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Amen to that one (y). There's hardly any up here around Durham :) They use cops and random locations (usually sneaky) to catch you out which really does work I got caught my self and it put me right in my place I stick speed limits now 30's especiallty. Camera's are useless cause it cost's £2 to download a database to put on any popular Sat Nav device so I know where they all are.

And the point Skinz was trying to make was that Camera's tend to be replacing the police police patrols which CAN detect DUI drivers etc.
 
But it's not like the use of speed cameras has suddenly meant "right, fewer traffic cars needed" it's just happened coincidentally. Nobody in their right mind would see it is a replacement, but to sumplement.
 
But even the government (remember speed cameras are implemented at a local level) do not see them as a replacemet.
 
Speed bumps are far more efficient then speed cameras. Annoying but more efficient. Driving around areas I know I slow down for the camera then go back to the speed I was doing. But then, what is the point putting a camera for 30mph on a dual carriageway in a non residential area!?

I think the places for more speed cameras have to be the motorways. I have a fear of driving on them since I had a nasty crash a year or so ago, but sometimes you got no choice but to go that bit faster because some moron is right up your arse, usually in a 4x4. I am terrified of having another accident on the motorway and I do spend a lot of time on the M3 between Surrey and Southampton, the presence of Traffic Police is suprisingly minimal. It never fails to shock me when I see cars pass me over 80mph in rain/wind/fog.
 
Speed camera's do work, becuase I have slowed down since they were implemented. I have to ask why you want a petition to ban them rather than look for legislation for better positioning of camera's in high risk area's.

The only reason I can think of is that you speed and are worried about being caught. If this is the case then you shouldn't be speeding so you have absolutely no argument for them being banned. I have been caught a couple of times and it has made me watch my speed, so it does help to remind you of speed limits.

I agree there should be more traffic police and I can't understand why there are not, they get revenue from the camera's which could be used to fund them.
 
I rarely speed, I'll hold my hand's up and say now and again I'll let her creep to 70/75 on a nice wide straight piece of a national limit road, but the point I'm trying to make is speed camera's won't stop this if the driver is looking out for them, as they will just slam all on. My part of the world has no Speed cameras, none in North Yorkshire at all IIRC, but I do regularly see the big T5's or some other patrol car hiding in laybys on roads where people do speed and believe you and me, they get caught. I just don't think cameras reduce the number of accidents that much, hell someone might get caught speeding by the camera, but 20 seconds down the road thay might crash and die or kill someone else anyway, 3 points and a fine up to 2 weeks later can't stop that, a traffic cop could.
 
2 policemen in a T5 sat in a lay-by using a speed camera is pointless, it's not worth their time, not when a camera can effectively do the same job more cheaply.
 
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