SpeedCams on M1 Northants

[CarZee]

From Speedtrap guide mailing list for the benefit of Greg and other Midlanders (there can be only one.. )..

quote:Just to warn you and your subscribers that Northants have reintroduced their mobile "safety" cameras on the M1. They are between junction 15 and the County Boundary and between 15A and 16. The usual spots are around Junction 15 itself and on a bridge
near between 15A and 16

There are no warning signs at all.

These cameras are there solely to catch motorists and to make money as without any signs there can be no deterrent effect.

Daily details are posted on the Northants police website

www.northants.police.uk/

These cameras caught hundreds of unsuspecting motorists last year and while it may be good for my business I consider the use of these cameras to be a travesty. I gather that mobile cameras are exempt from the Government's proposals."

The only protection from the systems they use is not to speed or a good Laser Jammer, They us LTI 20-20 Laser guns with Video System.

[philshort]

quote:while it may be good for my business I consider the use of these cameras to be a travesty

Who is being quoted I wonder?

[CarZee]

Doesn't say - just a reader of the site..

[JohnLow]

Someone who sells "a good Laser Jammer"

[GregE240]

Thanks mate. Yet another reason to drive the racetrack that is the M40.

The only quicker motorways I've ever driven on are the M69 (we were being overtaken last weekend at some ridiculous speeds, well above a ton) and the M45, which Jag use(d) for high speed testing.

[nigelbasson]

Quote "Excessive or inappropriate speed is a contributory factor in one third of all serious and fatal collisions." (End quote from the Northants Police website.)

Didn't someone else on another thread discover that the results of a recent report found that excessive or inappropriate speed only contributed to around 7% of all accidents?

Furthermore, I live and work in Northants and these mobile cameras are a pain in the arse - and the fixed cameras are still painted a nice deep police blue. When is it that they have to change their colour by?

[Nightmare]

different stat....this one is likely true...there is no doubt that if you have an accident you're more likely to die the faster you're going - basic physics if nothing else. Shame the focus is on stopping stupid muppets dying in crashes instead of stopping them having them in the first place....

Night

[CarZee]

quote:The only quicker motorways I've ever driven on are the M69 (we were being overtaken last weekend at some ridiculous speeds, well above a ton) and the M45, which Jag use(d) for high speed testing.

fastest bits of motorway I know of are:

M58 to Southport
M180 to grimsby

and by virtue of momentum carried from the other side of the Channel, the M20 from Dover

[CJN]

There are some cameras at the manchester end of the A57 just before it turns into a motorway.

They are all painted army green

[.mark]

Fastest roads then?
Where I live there are no speed cameras at all, and the local police have had the mobile equipment removed for use elsewhere in the county.
And it's easy to know when to behave as to get in and out you have to cross a bridge! Now where's Gazz when you want him?

[Mad Dawg]

the 'one third of all accidents is caused by speed' statistic is a load of rubbish. no idea where it originated from, but it has no basis in reality. If you want more info check out the ABD's website (www.abd.org.uk). I believe the polices' own figurs put it at between 4-7%, but even then the causes of accidents are never that simple. Join the ABD and help then fight for the application of reason and common sense to the issue of speeding/cameras/etc. It doesn't matter if you don't intend to be an active member, simply by adding your name to the list allows the ABD to extert a greater influence. Its worth bearing in mind that a group like transport2000 which has a lot of influence on government policy on consists of a thousand or so members!! The ABD is already quite a bit bigger than that, and the more members it has the more the politicians have to listen to its point of view. we do still live in a democracy!
anyway, i'll get off me soapbox now...

ps was just thinking how great it would be if every PH member joined the ABD... there's strength in numbers...