I recieved some extra taxation from a camera van a couple of months ago. This van was parked up in an area where the speed limit is quite sensible and I was on my way into work didn't notice and was going a little over the limit and got caught. It was a fair cop, probably somewhere pedestrians could cross the road etc..

Anyways on Sunday AM I was coming out of Swansea on a quiet M4 to see a camera van lurking on top of a Motorway Bridge, the motorway is straight fairly clear etc. so how can this be contributing to road safety???? I wouldn't have been caught by the van as I was travelling under the limit and it was over the oncoming traffic, but it really annoyed me this new ploy in raising revenue, this van could have been in many more unsafe places!!!!

It wasn't one of DVLA vans either, it had big speed camera stickers on it and was monitoring the on coming traffic. The people in the oncoming lane probably couldn't have seen it because it would have been on the far side of the bridge to them....

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I know.....80 mph on a quiet M180, by an unmarked van tucked away on the hard shoulder for me. I'm losing respect for the police, and would have had little sympathy if a lorry suffered a blow out and went straight into them.

 

80mph! In a 70 limit?

Did they stop you?

 

No, got the NIP 25 days later, which was still valid - as far as I could find out, the "14 days" thing doesn't really work, plus they had the fact that they had to go through the lease car company to find me.

 

 

Yes, the rozzers are given more leeway when the car is not registered in your name (i.e. lease, hire, company car etc.) Can't remember how long, but it is longer than the 14 days allowed for "normal" cars.

So did they do you for 80mph in a 70 limit? That's very, very, very tight indeed (unless it was snowing, or thick fog) as most traffic cops tent to leave you alone until you're up near 90.

Bunch of bastards, the lot of them.

 

(Am sure there must be a few good ones but they are a dying breed). To add to the terrible image they're creating for themselves, the "undercover" racism programme is on BBC in 15 min. They really need an image boost at the moment and motorist persecution is not going to do it for them

 

One of my client's Sprinter vans got done by a Talivan, on a dry empty motorway in broad daylight.

That is considered more serious as it's a commercial vehicle, Irrespective of the speeds German Sprinters are designed for!

We were all rather incensed by the "what the fcuk is that supposed to prove?" aspect of it.

As you say, one tends, unfairly, to assume all plod have this failed traffic warden/tax collector mentality.

Many plod disagree with the policy for the same reasons.