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New Fri 12 Nov 10 17:48 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - henry k
Anti-social drivers in Surrey targeted in crackdown

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-11743024
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New Fri 12 Nov 10 17:52 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Iffy
150 drivers nabbed for something out of 174 stopped is an enormously high strike rate.

No wonder the police target motorists.
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New Fri 12 Nov 10 17:56 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - sherlock47
>> 150 drivers nabbed for something out of 174 stopped is an enormously high strike rate.
>>


Nobody said it was a random sample. It is only 35 per hour - if you sit on a fairly main road it would be easy to pick an 'iffy' looking car and driver every 2 minutes.


Actually if it was properly resourced, you could probably pull considerably more. Let us see what resident plod has to say ;)
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New Fri 12 Nov 10 19:34 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Iffy
...if you sit on a fairly main road it would be easy to pick an 'iffy' looking car and driver every 2 minutes...

My only point is there are a lot of offending drivers, 150 out of 174 according to cops, one every two minutes according to you.

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New Fri 12 Nov 10 22:01 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Crankcase
Ballpark numbers - A25 carries about 20000 cars a day, according to a couple of traffic count surveys online. Other similar roads carry between about 18k and 25k, so that seem about right.

So in the five hour operation they stopped 174 out of roughly 8300 vehicles - 2%, and nearly all of them had a problem.

You can't draw much of a conclusion from that. 98% of cars don't look iffy? A lot more looked iffy but there was insufficient resource to pull them all? They were 100% effective at identifying the iffy looking ones and pulled them all?


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New Fri 12 Nov 10 23:14 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Zero
>> Ballpark numbers - A25 carries about 20000 cars a day, according to a couple of
>> traffic count surveys online. Other similar roads carry between about 18k and 25k, so that
>> seem about right.
>>
>> So in the five hour operation they stopped 174 out of roughly 8300 vehicles -
>> 2%, and nearly all of them had a problem.

Depends on the time of day. If your 5 hours is during the day, your traffic density will be right down, compared to morning and evening rush hour, and school run time
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New Sat 13 Nov 10 07:12 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Manatee
I don't think you can draw any conclusions except as to the minimum likely proportion of offenders based on the numbers found and the total throughput, if known.

113/174 were clearly stopped after an offence was seen - speeding, seat belt, mobile phone, over-tinted windows. The remainder, 28/33, were the 'defects' and tax disc offences (which might also have been visible before the stop). Clearly nothing random going on here.

Unless they blocked the road, or had an unlimited number of stoppers, presumably many other offenders went by while they were occupied with the stoppees.
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New Fri 12 Nov 10 17:52 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Injection Doc
about time too but it needs to be country wide everyday.
I am getting fed up with soo many drivers blatently using their mobile phones especially at roundabouts!
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New Fri 12 Nov 10 17:59 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Bellboy

good
sick of being stopped in my non white van as lawbreakers pass on the phone eating a maccy dee and chucking their rubbish out of their dirty bald tyred untaxed unserviced faulty foreign cars-----------
:-)
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New Fri 12 Nov 10 18:48 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Zero
I wondered why my lad was home late tonight.
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New Sat 13 Nov 10 07:56 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - L'escargot
>> Anti-social drivers in Surrey targeted in crackdown
>>
>> www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-11743024
>>

I agree with cracking down on "anti-social" drivers.
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New Sat 13 Nov 10 08:19 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Clk Sec
Good for Surrey police. I hope they caught a few tailgaters, too.
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New Sat 13 Nov 10 09:43 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Zero
You would have to stop everyone in Surrey then.
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New Sat 13 Nov 10 09:45 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Iffy
...You would have to stop everyone in Surrey then...

You could stop the one in front quickly an wait for the rest rear-end each other.
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New Sat 13 Nov 10 09:47 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Zero
the one behind is a Chelsea footballer in a Lincoln navigator.

Not something you want to be "taken from behind" by.
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New Sat 13 Nov 10 09:52 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - Iffy
...Not something you want to be "taken from behind" by...

Better to be taken from behind by his car than by the guy himself.

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New Sat 13 Nov 10 10:03 
 In 5 hours of checks on the A25. The result. - L'escargot
It's playing it down to call them anti-social. They're law breakers.
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