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This might answer you original question, below just speed camera dosh


Rank Region Value of fines paid
1 South Wales £7.281 million
2 Thames Valley £6.698 million
3 London £6.497 million
4 Avon & Somerset £5.949 million
5 Essex £5.137 million
6 Lancashire £5.073 million
7 Dorset £3.959 million
8 Sussex £3.772 million
9 Bedfordshire £3.655 million
10 West Yorkshire £3.625 million

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Originally posted by andy c:
But the problems lay in deciding whether your judgement is correct, does it not?

But is the judgement of those that set the limits correct - he dares to venture.

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But is the judgement of those that set the limits correct - he dares to venture.

V true, too.
But, for arguments sake, you have a uniform limit that is decreed by either signs telling you what speed it is, the fact you are on a motorway, or if there are no signs and you are in abuilt up area with lampposts less than 200yards apart.

Think that would work?

Me thinks he stretches the argument to the other extreme now

Touche!

Clarity time please.

I was coming home on the M74 this evening (about 30 mins ago) and was doing 70mph on an empty stretch of motorway (yes, I was in the inner lane).

A marked police car passed me at a significantly higher speed - I estimate around 90mph. No blue warning lights were displayed.

Legal or not ?

If the same copper allows due discretion to other drivers to do the same then I've no issue. If, say, he pulled another driver for following him at the same speed then I'd be wanting some answers.

Another example: a taxi driver in my district was recentlty handed a 48 hour suspension for using his mobile phone at the wheel. Shocking, and the penalty may seem a bit lenient until you learn that he was caught just scrolling down his phone looking for a number for the benefit of his passenger at a red traffic light.

Later, another taxi driver spotted another Council Enforcement Officer at the wheel of his own car with his phone stuck to his ear, and reported him on the obvious hypocritical basis.

To me this was foolhardy because the first enforcement officer has a reputation for petty enforcement; the latter for being fair and affording due discretion.

If I'd spotted the second guy with his phone to his ear, I'd have contacted him directly and asked him why he should get away with using his phone in illegal and irresponsible manner when one of our drivers was unfairly penalised for a letter-of-the-law only transgression, rather than making an official complaint against him to his superiors. I'd point out to him that I'd be well within my rights to do just that, but instead I'd afford him the same due discretion as he has to us in the past.

Discretion and hypocrisy should both work in the two ways, should it not?

Discretion is v good!
Hypocracy is V Bad!

andy,

email me nigelrball@aol.com

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PB,

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