Hi all , i wondered if there's any police among us?

If there are could you explain why we have a 70mph m-way speed limit please? ( just asking) :D

I have seen three officers using speed guns on the M5 this week and wondered what the threshold is for prosicution? Is it 10% plus 2 = 79mph? Is it deemed to be dangerous to exceed this speed?

The head of the Somerset safety camera partnership stated on a live BBC interview this week, 'even if we did hide our cameras, the law is the law and you're breaking the law if you exceed any speed limit'.

If this is the case why are the 99% of drivers who exceed the limit when they deem it safe to do so not being prosicuted? Should we not have a system in place in all vehicles that will track your speed and issue points and a fine every time the law is broken?

After all, the law is the law and we drivers are not above it.

In a matter of months after this system was introduced , 99% of drivers will be banned.

Im not sure if the economy would collapse.

Im not sure if their would be a vote of no confidence in the government.

It would bring the whole 'speed kills' issue to a head though and perhaps would help us get some common sense policing on roads when the new conservative government took over.

Personally i would like to see an advisory national speed limit in place, say 90mph on m-ways (excluding roadworks obviously). The offence of speeding on a m-way would no longer exist and all speed detection equipment would be banned (excluding road works and police in-car monitoring equipment). I believe the effects on road safety would be positive as police would not have the cushy job of pointing guns at those travelling at speed safely anymore. Instead they would have to concentate efforts on reducing dangerous driving and actually do something about tailgating, dangerous manoeuvers, drunk/drug driving, excess speed in poor weather conditions etc etc.

 

Comments welcome! Cheers.

Haha! Yeah right!! :D :nono: :D

 

no honest -ne1 with an S13 knows the fog switch is located in front of right knee - when rear passengers are in the, front seats have 2 b moved 4ward - this makes hitting the switch by accident very easy.

 

he may have thought I was baiting him - bet he wanted to test out his Volvo T4 ! :rofl:

 

we had a pizza - i shudda said we wanted to get home b4 the pizza was cold ! :rofl: :D

Imagine you are traveling at 40mph on a 40 road and you see a car pull up at a juction wanting to turn the way you are traveling. They stop and when you get closer they pull out and you hit the back of them. By your reckoning you should be done for dangours driving becuase you are guilty. You cant prove your inocents as the other person in the car said you where speeding. Is that right? NO!

 

That happened to me - my only accident so far - and I was in a hire car. In fact, even sillier than that - it's as your description except he drove into the SIDE of my car.

 

I'm still waiting for my excess back from Avis 2 years later. There's no onus on them to prove it was his fault, despite my two witnesses. Meanwhile, the nice man in the Daewoo is undoubtedly still driving around uninsured. :xxx:

 

Insurance doesn't cover accidents, it covers risk! (And if Avis don't pull their finger out, they're gonna find out how good their legal insurance is.)

 

Know what you mean about fog lights, me aftermarket jobby is near the ignition, and it quite often mysteriously turns itself on after going through twisties.