Do you speed?

[Matz]

There was something on about Speed Cameras on this mornings breakfast telly. Mainly people seem against them. I hate the mobile ones on motorway bridges, but don't mind ones on blackspots, or in 20 or 30 zones as I'm well behaved.

What about you?

[Guest 300z]

I can honestyl say i dont drive very fast at all, hell i complained about following TT TIM to a meet last year lol.

 

only go reasonably fast where i feel its safe and i know the road.

[konrad]

I wouldn't object to them if they really were at blackspots, and outside schools etc, but as they stand the more that get destroyed the better, I reckon !

 

If they really want to reduce deaths on the road they should address the causes of accidents (speed usually makes an accident worse but very rarely causes them - even in govt figures!).

 

They should introduce measures like min speed limits for A roads to stop people doing 30 on a 60 road; making everybody else have to overtake when it's maybe not safe.

[Guest XTT]

Never in 20's 30, 40's but do elsewhere.

[Ajay]

I tend to speed on motorways and deristricted roads. Too much chance of a stray child / cat / dog whatever suddenly appearing in 20 - 40mph zones.

[Guest Dave Marley]

I drive at a speed I think is reasonable, irrespective of the speed limit. Just because some non-driver in the local council has decided that a dual carriageway should be a 30, doesn't mean that I'll take any notice of that! :rolleyes:

 

I'm not sure which of the options I should go for though, as I don't speed all the time everywhere, but I do notice speed limits. :confused:

[konrad]

Originally posted by Dave Marley

I drive at a speed I think is reasonable, irrespective of the speed limit. Just because some non-driver in the local council has decided that a dual carriageway should be a 30, doesn't mean that I'll take any notice of that! :rolleyes:

 

I'm not sure which of the options I should go for though, as I don't speed all the time everywhere, but I do notice speed limits. :confused:

 

 

My views exactly ! :)

[emero]

Originally posted by 300z

I can honestyl say i dont drive very fast at all, hell i complained about following TT TIM to a meet last year lol.

 

only go reasonably fast where i feel its safe and i know the road.

 

 

Me tooo:D

I've been told by too many people( there's a queue) that I drive like a granny:rolleyes:

 

I'm not that slow.... :( :( :o

[Ajay]

But you're still getting used to the car, Emero. And it's a car in which you don't currently feel safe for obvious reasons.

 

 

 

I still have your box o'bits btw - have had it kicking around the boot of the Peugeot for the last 2 weeks. :)

[Matz]

I tend to drive with my needle a needle widths above the 30 mark in 30 zones. After 200m of this I've queue of traffic half a mile long behond me. Seems I'm in the minority about what speed to do in my area (Berks during the week).

[emero]

Originally posted by Ajay

But you're still getting used to the car, Emero. And it's a car in which you don't currently feel safe for obvious reasons.

 

 

 

I still have your box o'bits btw - have had it kicking around the boot of the Peugeot for the last 2 weeks. :)

 

 

ahhhh wondered where i'd put it !!!!!!!:D :D :D :D

 

 

 

I'm going to Duffman's tommorrow woohoooooooo:D

 

happy zed

[Guest Dave Marley]

The problem is that you can't generalise about roads based simply on the speed limit any more. :(

 

It used to be that you knew what a 30 zone would look like - single lane road, built up area, possibly parked cars, etc. Now 50s and 40s have become 30s. They weren't dangerous before, so people will still tend to drive at the speed they used to.

 

And the number of dual carriageways that are now 40s is ludicrous.

[konrad]

Originally posted by Dave Marley

the number of dual carriageways that are now 40s is ludicrous.

 

Also the number of perfectly safe A roads that now have a 50 limit and speed cameras - an excuse to extort more money or wot ? :mad:

[Ajay]

Originally posted by emero

ahhhh wondered where i'd put it !!!!!!!:D :D :D :D

 

I'm going to Duffman's tommorrow woohoooooooo:D

 

happy zed

 

 

So I hear! :D You'll finally have a Zed back that you can trust! :D

 

Must get together somewhen next week and I'll give you your box back. :)

[Guest Matty]

*START OF RANT*

 

There is a van that usually parks on a bridge by me which the motorway goes under, it's badged up as 'Safety' big smiley face on it, oh srry my mistake that was all the coppers inside doing the drivers for speeding as they go underneath!

 

Is that legal? To be doing people for speeding if it's all badged up as 'Safety'

 

Tosssers the lot of them, can't do a thing against real criminals! Have to play, lets get our bonus's up and figures in for the month by the end of today, means we can shuffle paper and do fluff all for the next 4 weeks.

 

:(

 

*RANT OVER*

 

I speed past this van as they are all focused on the motorway, never see me.......:)

 

Matty.

[Guest Matty]

Originally posted by Ajay

Must get together somewhen next week and I'll give you your box back. :)

 

Do I spy some love on the forum??

 

:D

 

Matty.

[Ajay]

Euumm.... LOL... Emero and I get on like a house on fire, don't we, hun? :D :D

 

 

 

 

 

Is that legal? To be doing people for speeding if it's all badged up as 'Safety'

 

 

And yes, it's perfectly legal.

[ChrisC]

Yup saw the Breakfast telly bit this morning about the cameras being destroyed.

Good idea if you ask me!

There are never any near schools or on housing estates, just where they will make most money.

 

59 MILLION POUNDS last year apparently :(

 

I got stopped a couple of years ago at 1am on an open road between villages that was previously a 60 limit but had been changed to a 30.

Asked why it had changed and why there were no signs and was told they were going to build houses IN THE FUTURE and that I should have noticed the street lights to tell me it was a 30 limit.

The road had ALWAYS had street lights!

This is a road I have been on hundreds of times and I should have known because the national speed limit sign had been REMOVED!

 

If there are clearly no kids about and not even any other cars during the night, who are we a danger to?

Are we not allowed to take responsibility for our own actions anymore?

 

It's just a huge con.

[Guest Nelson MainFella]

My option aint there - it would be "Sometimes but with great care". But most of the time I don't - too scared of police & cameras.

[Guest TT Tim]

Originally posted by 300z

I can honestyl say i dont drive very fast at all, hell i complained about following TT TIM to a meet last year lol.

 

only go reasonably fast where i feel its safe and i know the road.

 

Just to clarify it was on the Motorway, and you are a slow old fart! ;)

 

I have travelled at an estimated 160+ on some of the motorways in this country, but I do not speed in built up areas, there are simply too many kids, pets etc etc.

 

I live in a little village and we are resisting the pressures of the local autorities to slap a 30mph zone through the village, not because we want to speed, but because the majority of the people that use the road are locals and automatically slow down so why should we be told what speed to do by some pleb in local government, we are old enough to make our own decisions, and it's proof that people can be sensable without needing a red circle to tell them to do so.

 

Tim

[Matz]

The cameras I worry about are these SPECS ones that measure average speed.If the first one sees me doing 100mph, that means I've got to slow down a hell of a lot before I reach the second one.

 

But then the first one may have been the second one!!! Oooooer.

 

Best buy meself a detector.

[paulg]

I usually only speed when someother car chalenges me. I prefer the buzz of accelerating hard around b roads rather than just sitting at a constant high speed on the motorway

[MAC 1]

No only when I see cats:D;)

[Guest danhock]

I used to speed everywhere.... (not built up areas of course though)

 

Unfortunately i got caught doing 57 in a 30, about 20 yards from the national speed limit sign!! Dooooh. 6 points £250 fine.

 

Then i got caught doing 98 on the motorway in my companies Vectra, how embarassing. 3 points £40

 

Last year i got caught doing 103mph on the motorway in my 200sx. Had been doing 120 but put the anchors on pretty quick!! no points, £200 fine and a 14 day ban!!!

 

The strange thing is that if i'd been doing less than a 100 (but over 70!!) i would have got at least 3 points and that would have meant 6-12 month ban!!!

 

 

The moral of the story is if you have 9 points and get caught speeding on the motoway, make sure its over 100mph!

 

Dan

[cybernet]

Like Dan, I've been caught a few times by the boys in blue. It's not just the points and the £40 fine though. I got 3 points for doing 42 in a 30 zone in 2000 and this has added a total of almost £250 to my insurance premiums since.

 

I appreciate the need for speed limits and I generally drive carefully and only open up on roads I know well. Let's face it, if you own a Z, it's hard not to... :D :D :D

 

Cheerz

 

Steve