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Post by Handyman on Apr 3, 2023 18:23:53 GMT
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Post by Handyman on Apr 4, 2023 7:01:22 GMT
For those that don't know this, for those who do get caught on camera exceeding the speed limit the Notice of intended Prosecution ( NIP) have to serve the NIP on the registered keeper of the vehicle within 14 days of the offence, if they don't it is not valid
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Post by Orac on Apr 4, 2023 7:18:20 GMT
You could well be right, last thing I want to hit is a pothole at 30mph never mind 60mph , the problem I have is our Motorways are littered with all sort of rubbish, bits of metal fallen off the backs or lorries, bits of tyres hit something like that at 70mph and get an instant flat is not pleasant. What pisses me off is Hooray Henries or dopy Doris driving two tonnes of Chelsea Tractors doing 90mph or over coming up behind me flashing their lights when you are doing an overtake , they don't have a hope in hell of stopping quickly if they need to, accidents waiting to happen The latter is something I have seen happening. But most of the time I have seen it, it appears to be because the overtaking vehicle is barely exceeding the speed of the vehicle it is overtaking. If drivers are not travelling fast enough to overtake a slightly slower vehicle promptly, maybe they should not be overtaking it at all. Personally, I think it should be legal to temporarily exceed the speed limit on motorways by 5mph solely when overtaking, so that slower vehicles can be overtaken fairly promptly. I tend to put my foot down when overtaking anything, all the more so on single carriageway highways when other vehicles might start coming from the opposite direction whilst you are on their side of the road overtaking. The faster you can get past, the shorter the time on the wrong side of the road and the safer the overtake. Once past I will drop back to my original speed. The British police seem to have a serious management issue. They appear to have been instructed to act robustly, firmly and immovably in all situations except the ones the British public would reasonably expect them to |
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Post by Handyman on Apr 4, 2023 9:14:32 GMT
Sticking to speed limits that are too low for the road and conditions actually requires a lot of concentration and repeatedly looking at the speedo to avoid your speed creeping up. And this is a distraction from what you should be focussing on which is the road ahead and other road users, as well as potential hazards like pedestrians waiting to cross or cyclists ahead. This is actually I am sure more dangerous than actually sticking to a sensible speed for the road. You can circumvent the need to concentrate on driving far more slowly than the road and conditions warrant to comply with an excessively slow speed limit by setting cruise control, but not everyone has it. And even if you do have it, it is one of those things that when it stops working you never get it fixed because you can make do without it and you dont need it to pass an MOT. Few of us in these ever more straitened times can afford to spend money on our cars if we don't need to. Oh spare me the sob stories , it is very simple you drive to the road conditions in front of you and hope the prat behind you does as well, distance speed and different weather conditions , I only use my cruise controls on long runs especially motorways, all you need to do to check your speed is to flick your eyeballs down for a second to see what speed you are doing |
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Post by Handyman on Apr 4, 2023 9:56:50 GMT
I agree with you I have no problem with the members of the public doing that Part of the problem lies in another inherent difference between us and the French. Provided that no serious injury has been inflicted upon anyone, the French police would be much more inclined to let everyone get on with it, glad that they themselves have been saved the bother. Over here the police would divert even more resources from the non-investigation of burglaries and thefts, to go after the people taking the law into their own hands and prosecuting them. We know instinctively that this will happen in a way the French don't have to worry about. So our reluctance to act is understandable since the full force of the law will be used against us here if we do. I have driven across Europe quite a number of times over the years, two places I would recommend you be careful is Portugal and Italy, the standard of driving is dreadful, as for road traffic accidents here, the rules are simple all you have to do is exchange your details with the other driver and you have complied with the Law., if serious injury occurs is a different matter Police will attend if possible. We are the most filmed country in Europe even walking in to you local shop you are filmed, we do not enough Cops out there to deal with the demands on them full stop due to the size of the population, as we have lots of Cameras on the major motorways and in cities etc , Speed Cameras, Highways Agency etc monitoring to highways it means that most speed offenders can be dealt with via Notices of Prosecution especially for speed all done remotely. That means the Traffic Cops we do have can patrol the roads, yes they look for speeders, dangerous drivers, unsafe vehicles , overloads, but also some of them have ANPR fitted Automatic Number Plate Readers , and static ones that flag up , untaxed and uninsured vehicles, plus vehicles known to be used by criminals , disqualified drivers drug dealers , burglars, cloned vehicles intelligence led Policing the Cops will try and stop them and arrest them, some routine stops have taken out large shipments of drugs and or stolen property or people wanted for serious offences As for Speed Vans don't know how many of them are out and about everyday not that many IMHO , they are supposed to only be sited and places where there is a history of accidents in the previous three years, but they are operated by one Officer |
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