Speed camera

[David George 1Participant @davidgeorge1]

Near to where I live is a cross roads with traffic lights and pedestrian crossings and also there is a speed restriction which finnishes just after the pedestrian crossing. Just to complcate the set up there is a new speed camera which controls the crossing and checks speed across the traffic lights and a pedestrian crossing as well as a further distance of about 20 meters beyond the crossing to a 50MPH speed sign. If you cross the cross roads and the pedestrian crossing and see the 50MPH sign and excelerate BEFORE passing the speed sign you have been caught speeding like I was. There has been many thousands of motorists caught perhaps it should be made more available that you can be speeding untill you have passed the speed sign before accelerating.

David

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

Surely it is clear that up to the 50 speed limit sign the previous limit, presumably 30 mph, applies?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

A location would be informative for we idle commentators, David

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MichaelG.

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

Would you be reported for dangerous driving if you stamped on your brakes just before a reducing speed sign eg:-  You are travelling at 50mph in a 50 limit area and 10 feet before the 30 limit you stamp on your brakes sufficiently to reduce the speed to 30, and bloke behind runs into you. Are you at fault ?

Bob

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

It’s a cruel world, I was nailed officiously for entering a bus-lane prematurely in order to turn left across it.

On the plus side, I now see myself as a freedom loving wild boy, leader of the pack, whom all the chicks will fall for.  Except in the real world I muttered something wet about it being a fair cop and paid the fine.

Dave

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Seems like a fair cop to me guv. It’s 30 until you pass the 50 sign.

When you leave Liverpool on the M62,  the last speed limit sign you pass is 40. There is no ‘national speed limit’ sign. This means it’s 40 all the way to at least the smart motorway bit, but I’ve often been passed by police cars without their blue lights on. Should I have reported them?

[Robert Atkinson 2Participant @robertatkinson2]

I live just off the A14 on a section with a variable speed limit. It is very annoying to be doing the limit (set on the car’s variable limiter against GPS so at limit +0 -1 MPH) and have people sitting on your bumper flashing their lights at you because they can see the end of the limit on the neaxt matrix sign. It’s more gratifying to see some of them accelerate towards the end of limit and then get flashed by the fixed camera between the signs..

Robert.

[David George 1Participant @davidgeorge1]

The Junction is on the A38 Nottinghamshire Sutton in Ashfield with the junction with the B6018   I have been on a speed awarness course and paid the costs already.

David

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Presumably you were above the usual speed limit +10% +1mph usually applicable to speed cameras?

 

Robert,  Cambridge by any chance?

I recently left Rothwell, quite late at night, towards the A14.  I became aware of a vehicle following me, a safe distance back, within the sharp bends and 30mph limit and again in the 40mph section.  I didn’t slow at any of the bends in the town.

I was minded to think it was plod, so waited and booted all 300 horses immediately after the derestriction marker.  It caught me up, after I settled the cruise to 69mph, and followed me into Kettering. It was plod.  But put simply, if one sticks to the speed limit, one is safe from speeding fines (but not necessarily other  offences).

I don’t know the tolerance allowed in average speed restrictions.  Anyone know?

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