Thursday 14th November 2002

Hi Vis Cameras are Dangerous Says Cop

Hide them or just scrap them?

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[v8thunder]

Of course a Stockport traffic cop would say they were dangerous, what with balancing your speedometer at 30 and all. Just proves that speed cameras aren't in accident black spots where they claim to be. Maybe the government's thinking was just to create some more black spots to justify the cameras?

[FunkyNige]

So hidden cameras that everyone slams on the brakes for at the very last minute are safer than ones we can see a few hundred metres away? Fing retards.

[bugmeister]

You see a cameraat distance, slow down gradually and are no hazaed to others.

You see a camera at the last minute, brake suddenly and are an instant hazard.

You don't see camera, get flashed, don't find out until a week later, and had not caused a hazard to anyone - but have increased the coffers of the local constabulary.

Which will show the best results for Safety.

[JMGS4]

Obviously just some fast-tracking socialist arse-licker who just wants to get promoted faster in the BiB!!!

[apache]

jesus! this from a traffic cop too......it is becoming so bloody obvious that even Maureen the Moose can see what this is all about

[Size Nine Elm]

"High Media Vis Cops are Dangerous" Says Sane Motorist.

[plotloss]

Where is this Stockport place?

Mental note to self: Never go anywhere near Stockport - they are obviously all barmy!

Matt.

[v8thunder]

It's just South of Manchester but even the locals deny it's existence. Just find out where Robinson's Bitter is brewed and steer clear.

[Gazbo]

He's obviously never seen people 'slam-on' when they spot a grey one at close range!!! What an arsehole.

[Mudge]

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Nah, it's a fine place, apart from a collection of barking nutters in the highways department of the local council.

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Nectar of the gods, mate.

Cheers!

[Jason F]

Of course he means they are dangerously reducing the amount of money he can spend......

[Colin Gibson]

Take the camera away and there is no need for
any panic braking!!!!!

[Teppic]

Speaking from my own experiences on a stretch of the A14 (50mph zone)...

When the cameras (they are not hidden btw) were grey people would stick to 70-80mph and slam their brakes on at the last minute, before speeding up again until they reached the next one where they slammed their brakes on again.

Now the cameras are yellow, and I've noticed now that drivers slow down to 50mph at the start of the 50mph zone and pretty much stick to 50mph all the way until the resumption of the NSL. Going by this cops logic surely the cameras being high visibility would increae the speed/brake-slam situation, yet the opposite seems to be true...

Go figure

[nonegreen]

This is knee jerk bollox. We had a fatality in Stockport 2 weeks ago near the latest piggy banks and this jerk is now generalising. I am gonna have a word with him and the bloody lib dem jerks.