Ok, watched a programme tonight and its just made me more aggrivated.

Basically, there were a few things shown in the programme. The first was a young lad whos mum and dad had both been caught speeding on the me day. BEcause he was pissed he went a put a tyre around the speed camera and was lighting it with petrol. Now that takes, what 10 mins to do at most. There was a camera across the road monitoring this and cops arrived just before he had lit it and arrested him. He could face 3 years, in prison.

Fistly, 10 mins to get here at the middle of the bloody night?? U get burgled, its takes sometimes 4 hours??
Secondly, 3 years for this? you get done for GBH or something and u get bloody community service!!!

THe next part was about the north of wales police. This bloke traps twice as many speeders as the national average! This bloke who i once readabout also has the lowest prosecution of burgleries, and also has the longest time to respond to a burlgary and other domestic calls.
Where the hell are the priorities???

I would really like to know how many ppl are killed on our roads from people who joy ride, drive under drug or alcohol etc... i bet the numbers would be drastically brought down!

It just iritates me, because they just want the money. They got nothing better to do than sit by a road all day and wait for speeders to pass. They got £68m or something last year from speeders, and 5,000 more cams are going to be put up in the next 2 years or something.

ARe you for speed cameras?

My mum said she wouldnt mind, but they hardly put them out side of schools or anything. My dad drives through the Peak district and there are 4 mobiles ones on the way there and back on average a week?? fucking why??

Opinions?

im for speed camera's but only in accident black spots, or the new average speed ones they have brought out in some motorway road works, in open "safe" roads its a nono for me

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There aren't enough speed cameras. People just drive fast everywhere else and then when they approach a speed camera they slow down. What's the point in that? They should be hidden and there should be more of them. But the goverment should also accept that the speed limit is to slow in some areas and should increase this where nessasairy.

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about 99% of speed cameras in my area are not there to prevent accidents. I can't remember the time there was an accident on the A316 ever. its just a massive A road!

They should just make radar detectors more cheaper.

Accident blackspot genuinely deserve speed cameras.

the cheif of welsh police is a twat who has no clue.

i don't really class speeding as a "crime". If it was, i'd guess i'd be a hardcore criminal. IF a road is clear, and big, are you really going to stick to the limit? Speed should be defined by conditions and traffic.

there should be no limit on the motorways either, just like Germany

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike There aren't enough speed cameras. People just drive fast everywhere else and then when they approach a speed camera they slow down. What's the point in that? They should be hidden and there should be more of them. But the goverment should also accept that the speed limit is to slow in some areas and should increase this where nessasairy.

Speed cameras are supposed to be placed in accident blackspots, so to slow down traffic where normally speed is a danger - a good idea! But when u see cameras in a such a place where it is on a straight road with no minor roads, schools and residential areas it makes u wonder. I also think (correct me if im wrong) that speed cameras themselves also pose a danger cos when u see one at the last minute ur immediate reaction is to break which can cause a totally different but dangerous reaction.

dont speed cams capture at like 150 frames per second or something ridiculus like that?

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike There aren't enough speed cameras. People just drive fast everywhere else and then when they approach a speed camera they slow down. What's the point in that? They should be hidden and there should be more of them. But the goverment should also accept that the speed limit is to slow in some areas and should increase this where nessasairy.

*round of applause*

They should be in every street in the country, speeders should be banned from driving. Then people would stop speeding everywhere, and not just where speed camera's are.

The "money making" argument is pure bollox too, the cash isn't going to to Mircrosoft or McDonalds ffs. More money into policing means TiestoFanMatt gets his burglery seen to in 10 minutes instead of 4 hours

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Originally posted by Spad The "money making" argument is pure bollox too, the cash isn't going to to Mircrosoft or McDonalds ffs. More money into policing means TiestoFanMatt gets his burglery seen to in 10 minutes instead of 4 hours

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Originally posted by Spad *round of applause* They should be in every street in the country, speeders should be banned from driving. Then people would stop speeding everywhere, and not just where speed camera's are. The "money making" argument is pure bollox too, the cash isn't going to to Mircrosoft or McDonalds ffs. More money into policing means TiestoFanMatt gets his burglery seen to in 10 minutes instead of 4 hours

Sorry Paul, but that is full of crap.

people will never stop speeding, even if there was a camera every 100 yards on every road, they will just tear them down.
I agree that in streets, towns etc that there should be a very strict speed limit, spesh near schools and places where there would be a large amount of pedestrians and that it should be strictly policed, but not with camera's.
It is a fact that camera's have caused more accidents at places than if a camera was not there.
PPL unfamiliar with the roads see them at last minute braking hard causing the car behind them to rear end them.
Hidden camera's will do the same thing.

And as for saying that more money into policing will get other crimes like theft seen to quicker is bullshit.
How much revenue have detection cameras already created and as that goes up, the detection rate for other crimes gets steadily worse.

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Originally posted by Spad They should be in every street in the country

and that would really make the countyside look really nice!

if you don't speed, the law isn't broken + you won't get caught.

setting a speed camera is a bit extreme and i bet the person who did it was some type of charva/scallie/radgie/ned. if the police see a crime happening and the law breaker can be caught red handed they will blatatanly go sort it out, apart from that it could be very dangerous to passing motorists, etc.

i do agree the police + govt. do have their priotities wrong, along with being corrupt and as 'bent as a 9 bob note.' however speed cameras in places like 30miles north of me on the A1 of me have reduced accidents immeasurably + zero'd fatalities, you can't tell me thats a bad thing.

and for the speed limits being fucked up, yep i agree they are, its a 40 zone outside my house, i live no 3 on my street, next to a very busy single carriage road, opposite to me and round the corner from my house there are both schools, with about 500 kids between them. yet there is a road on my way to work that has houses all set back from the road on one side only, and a stables near the bottom of the road with a big manky new speed control thing on the road which is like an elevated cattle grid thing almost, the speed limit there is 30. the reason for the speed is the stables, so human life is now not as important as a horses now then. very fucked up imo.

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Right anyone who drives will know one thing. It is very easy to speed. Im not talking about 60 miles an hour, or 50mph speed limits, im talkin about 30mph speed limits.

If you drive a moderatly fast car, or even my bloody 1.2 corsa, if you take yr eye off the speedo for 2 seconds the speed can creep up and u r doing 35, now u can get nicked for doin 35 in a 30, and get 3 points on yr licence.

Now the money is going to the local police and not the goverment the limits on when u get nicked have been brought down and more mobile cameras are in place. This makes the local police a large amount of money. And as my mate who is a copper will tell u, they do it for the money.

They wont sit outside a school, or in an area where there are pedestrians at harm of being run over, no they will sit in areas where they know people maybe just going over the speed limit. It is all about making money now, and not about slowing down drivers.

Also this has been further proved by the fact a lot of speed limits have come down, 60mph speed limits r now 40 in a lot of places, and 40s 30, and very poorly signed as well, to catch out drivers.

I think its a discrace, i dont have a problem with cameras in traffic blgspots, but i do have a problem with them for money making purposes.

The police needs speeders to make money, i think they have got their priorities totally wrong, spend more time dealing with educating the young, and making sure young girls dont get raped walking home from school or work.

It makes me sick sometimes, but its not the coppers fault, they r only doing their job, its the people at the top.

This world is only concerned with money now, especially this goverment, taxes on petrol, again to apparently stop drivers, but taxes on petrol is a huge percentage of the overall budget, same with smokers, the goverment needs speeders, drivers and smokers.

Meh i could go on all day. It should be about the people, not the goverments pockets

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