SPEEDCHECK SERVICES PRESS RELEASE

 

1st Live SPECS safety cameras in Kent

 

 

Essential road works will be taking place between Junctions 10 -11

of the M20 Motorway in Kent during the summer. Speed Check

Services, the manufacturers of the SPECS digital system, have been

chosen to supply safety cameras throughout the works area. This is

the 1st time SPECS has been used in the South East.

 

In common with other works of this nature, a temporary mandatory

speed limit of

50 mph will be in force through the works area. SPECS cameras are

being used by Kent Police to enforce this limit as the safety of road

users and the workforce is paramount.

 

The SPECS system calculates a vehicles average speed from the

time it takes to pass between pairs of safety cameras. These

cameras can be up to 6 miles apart. It follows that, to avoid

prosecution, drivers must observe the 50mph speed limit throughout

the whole roadworks, not just at the camera sites. SPECS removes

the risk from drivers who brake hard at fixed camera sites and

accelerate again once they have passed the camera.

 

As SPECS is not reliant on the use of flash photography, drivers who

contravene the speed limit will not see the customary double flash

from the cameras. The cameras are, however, brightly coloured

and mounted on distinctive blue columns.

 

Ian PROCTER, Chairman of the Kent and Medway Safety Camera

Partnership, said,

" Our aim is to encourage drivers to comply with speed limits not to

punish them. We want to stop them from speeding, not catch them

speeding. Securing greater

compliance with speed limits at road works improves safety for

drivers, their passengers and the work force which, in turn, reduces

the demand on the health service and makes roadworks safer

places for us all. Everyone can benefit from drivers moderating their

speed."

 

 

Regards

Steve http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk

evil sinister miserable nasty people.

(and all without swearing... didn't think a bunch of ** would get the message across).

 

It's getting like that silly toll road in france... ticket at one end, ticket at the other.. system calculates average speed and hey presto, "ello ello ello... etc."

 

I hate the police.

We should have various speed limits depending on grades of licence... have higher grades of driving licence like advanced ones that would allow experienced drivers to follow different speed regs.

 

Ahhh in a ideal world.

What a f'kin pain in the **** !

 

Another indirect taxation scheme, this stretch of M/Way is 5mins from my house. The problem the M20 has is that the foreigners are the main offenders in terms of excessive speed but what do our local constulary do? Absolutly bugger all

 

I'm getting very fed up with this anti-car country, it's about time we began disabling these machines - they are an invasion of our civil liberties. FFS we pay a fortune to drive these roads, why do we tollerate it?

 

 

Time to get some French number plates I think!

 

Tim

Originally posted by nix:

It's getting like that silly toll road in france... ticket at one end, ticket at the other.. system calculates average speed and hey presto, "ello ello ello... etc."

 

Has anyone actually been done in France in this way? We went through a lot of toll booths last year, drove well over the limit in between and had no problems at all.

 

I think it's an urban myth. The French police do tend to set up their speed checks a bit before toll booths though.

 

 

hi,

i travel in france on a very regular basis,

and never experienced any probs with the police,i allways travel above the speed limits as do nearly all french people,

so i don't think you are correct in watch you say,,,,,

i do approx 20,000-40,000miles each year in france in all sorts of vehicles

and i ofen come back from naples(italy) to sheffield(including ferry crossing) in less than 24hours(1658miles) using only toll roads and in 4 years only been pulled by the duane's????(french customs) and never by the gendarme????(french police)

---neil---

 

[This message has been edited by neil (edited 07-08-2002).]

What about the dreaded POINTS on the licence for going through these things? Is it just a fine or a minimum 3 points each time? The grey suited pen pushers over here just want to take our licences away if we have any fun at all!

We always hear about SPEED being the causal factor in the majority of accidents (well obviously, coz if we weren't moving nothing would hit FFS! More police/media hype!)

The main cause of accidents is dozy f****wits not paying attention to what they are doing (been round a supermarket recently? Car park or shop, doesn't matter, the blind and brainless are all around!)

A much better solution would be to IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF CAR CONTROL AND AWARENESS!!!!

It's just typical of this screwed up small minded island. I used to be a member of a shooting club before they banned all the guns. Not because I wanted to kill anyone (well....) but because I enjoyed the thrill of the sport and the company of the people I used to go shooting with. We have a couple of nutters go 'Postal' and what happens? BAN ALL GUNS.

Don't bother to make the Police enforce the laws that were already in place, oh no, their time is more profitable nicking and fining people for speeding a bit. Ignore the fact that the nutters in question doctors and the heads of their shooting clubs all told the Police to take their Licences away. No, ignore that, it doesn't make any money! Just wait till something bad happens and then BAN IT when the screaming hysterical brigade start shouting (and the media get on the case if it's a quiet week)Then the Government can say they have done something - whoopee! It's nice that there is no more gun crime in this country now that all the guns have been banned. THAT WORKED EH?

 

Phew... that was fun.

Cheers

Neil

hi,

anyone heard of stealth taxes????????????

---neil---

I could well be wrong, but I seem to remember hearing that they gave up using GATSO's and the like in Belgium (where they invented the bloody things!?) and in Germany because they were always being vandalised and destroyed. You'd think with some of the scumbags we have in this country that there'd be more of the same. Still, I suppose if you're speeding in a nicked car who cares if you get flashed.

 

(work is VERY boring today)

Anyone who feels strongly about this, or the fact that speed limits are being set lower and lower, or that the roads are now littered with 'traffic calming', that taxes on drivers are so high, that congestion is being deliberately created and then blamed on drivers, etc, etc should join the Association of British Drivers ( http://www.abd.org.uk ).

 

They are the only organisation who are trying to stand up for drivers' rights in this country now that the RAC and the AA have sold out. Membership is only £20.

 

In 5-10 years time when the whole motorway system is tolled, doing 80 on the motorway is an automatic ban, a litre of fuel costs you £2 and you've had to pay a fortune for a GPS unit in your car to make it easier for them to fine you automatically every time you exceed the limit (assuming the car will even allow you to!), you'll wish you'd joined.

 

Go on, you know you want to!

 

[This message has been edited by Dave Marley (edited 08-08-2002).]

Lying B!"£*&*s. They are yellow, not blue