New speeding guidelines?

[NISFAN]

double post

 

[stevieb15]

Just to put some numbers to this (albeit with no causation factors), this is a tabulation from a report on BBC News about the fixed cameras being switched on again in Oxfordshire. The "Cameras On" numbers relate to the period August 2009 to January 2010 and the "Cameras Off" numbers relate to the period August 2010 to January 2011:

At Camera Sites Cameras On Cameras Off
Collisions 60 62
Slight Injuries 55 70
Serious Injuries 13 13
Fatalities 0 0


Elsewhere Cameras On Cameras Off
Collisions 885 867
Slight Injuries 999 982
Serious Injuries 160 179
Fatalities 12 18

If anyone claims to deduce anything statistically significant from those numbers then they're probably delusional

What is statistically significant is that the Thames Valley Scamera Partnership's funding stream is flowing again

I think the objective is to create jobs for those who failed to gain employment with their Local Authority, HMRC, or a local burger van I would imagine

 

[doggz1]

here in northampton we were told that these cameras were not to raise money in the stealth tax kind of way but they were safety cameras a necessary safety to save lives above all now they have switched them off at the start of this month as they were no longer self supporting and were un afordable so it turns out it was all about the money after all ?

 

[snoop51]

Maybe... I don't think it is the whole story though.

My personal bête noire is the idiots who believe that because they want to join a motorway from the slip road, all they have to do is pull directly into my path, before they have reached motorway speed, thus forcing me to brake hard or move over into the middle lane which may already be occupied.

I echo the sentiment - LBDF

Whatever happened to give way to traffic on the motorway before joining?

+1. Do they behave like this at other "GIVE WAY" junctions I wonder