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Clearly that story is a load of old soap. 700? in two months? two days would be nearer the mark.
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>> Clearly that story is a load of old soap. 700? in two months? two days
>> would be nearer the mark.
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Isn't the M25 a car park some of the time ?
Maybe not enough admin staff for more FPNs. :)
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I saw in a different DM article recently a reference to 115,000 motorists a year being fined for speeding, which is clearly well below the true number. I see that in this article they say that is the number fined more than £100 i.e. they excluded the majority of fines which were fixed penalties.
Maybe the same applies to the 700. It didn't seem many to me - 10 a day?
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>> Yet, I hope.
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>> tinyurl.com/orf3fe4
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>> Daily Mail.
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Sailor, I bring you good news. You do NOT need to worry. You do not have to spend your time looking out for speed cameras when you use the M25. God's own motorway.
Those tired old naval optics can relax. Those years spent peering through a periscope and saying, "Well sir, I am not sure. I think it might be one of ours, but I am not certain," are over.
The Association of Chief Police Officers have recommended that drivers are only prosecuted when exceeding 79 mph in a 70 mph area. That means, that for all practical purposes you can have 80 mph showing on your slightly optimistic speedometer before you get a ticket.
Now, are you pleased, or not?
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>> Now, are you pleased, or not?
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Not bothered in the slightest, I potter around at the speed limit (ish). I just thought that some of the under pressure target driven workers, and Zero who claims to drive everywhere at 90+ mph might be interested in the existence of these cameras.
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>> Zero who claims to drive everywhere at 90+ mph >>
Zero?
Just humour him.
We both know, that neither he, nor that Jap crap car could do 90 mph.
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>> We both know, that neither he, nor that Jap crap car could do 90 mph.
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The cheap jap crap, please.
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>> thought that some of the under pressure target driven workers, and Zero who claims to
>> drive everywhere at 90+ mph might be interested in the existence of these cameras.
If you care to read some posts in another thread, the same where i said I drive at 90 mph you will see that I previously warned about those cameras and i stated, more or less in these words "That is the only area I worry about speed"
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>> "That is the only area I worry about speed"
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In your dreams.
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>> In your dreams.
Whatever.
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Not to sound pedantic but the ACPO guidelines recommend a starting point of 10% + 2. So enforcement kicks in at 79 MPH .
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The speedo on my Mitsubishi Shogun is 4 mph out, so 80mph on the clock = a true 76mph.
The Jag X Type is 3 mph out.
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Interesting that sections chosen for this enforcement are all urban or semi urban motorway. Are the accident stats for speed as cause/contributor different there to the point>point segments?
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It was bound to happen that speed cameras would end up on the safest of all roads - motorways.
We might as well embrace those Google driverless Noddy cars, as there is no fun left in driving, especially in the south east. Who would spend a fortune on a fast car that you can only drive slow?
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>> We might as well embrace those Google driverless Noddy cars, as there is no fun
>> left in driving, especially in the south east. Who would spend a fortune on a
>> fast car that you can only drive slow?
Nah. Miles of B roads still derestricted and beyond effective policing by cameras.
Just watch out for push bikes.
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The level of restriction even some years ago was why the favoured vehicular mode of transport for James Hunt was an A35 van. I can relate to that, if you mildly beat Mr Rep in his repmobile in that, you get a real sense of achievement.
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Not on my patch. - Zero
