“Mick,you drive at 29mph the car behind you at 27 mph and so on and the rest of us may as well walk,no only kidding there mick,me i drive to the conditions ie open roads where there little traffic!!no thick pedestrian who think they are bullet proof ect then its does really make for a relaxing motoring !!!oh and with a bit of help from two of my little friends Mr bell euro 500 and Mrs bell RX65!!happy motoring!! mick you bet.”

“And as far as the revenue is concerned from the 'cash-crop' -the more the better.
Fill the coffers with the money collected from the criminals is my philosophy.
Helps keep the Car Tax down.”

“Ian, you don't have to 'drive with your eye constantly on the speedo.
As any 'experienced Driver will tell you, you 'feel the speed' -with occasional checked reference to the dashboard.
As for 'how do you know' -it's easy to answer. If, like me, you obey the speed limit all the time, you have 'all the time' to take in the signs as you approach each 'speed zone'.

I never had a problem of knowing what the speed limit was, as I drove in a relaxed manner along the Queen's Highway. Never.
If I tell you that after driving my car to work (in passing the 22 cameras, safely, i then climbed into a 44 ton truck and drove all day, passed even more cameras, and still kept a clean driving licence.... Not one point on it.
You can make excuses 'til the cows come home, but none of them wash.... not with me anyway.”

“Nigel Biddulph....I have to agree with you..... the speed cameras are making a fortune at the moment on the A500 Porthill to Etruria....I know that for a fact!”

“Mick, you say you don't speed? How do you know unless you drive everywhere with your nose on your speedo. You'd be far safer looking out of the windscreen! What about when you're in a unfamiliar area with poorly signed speed limit changes (e.g. 30mph zones don't have repeaters!. Speed only makes accidents worse. Bad driving is the more likely cause.”

“John, one other small detail, -the Police don't 'target motorists' all the time. -They target the criminally minded ones who don't believe in laws... of whatever kind -because it gets in the way of the childish fun.
I had a job once (in the past few years) where I had to pass 22 cameras on the way there and of course 22 on the way back -44 in total -and I never got 'caught once' -simply because I don't speed -break the speeding regulations.
It's a far better and relaxed form of motoring.”

“Dead right John! Dead right...

It is the pedestrians who cause all the accidents we all know that - every single time.

But you do have to concede that if the motorist who comes across such an idiot in front of him, and that motorist is one of the ones who likes to speed and is doing 40mph in a 30mph zone (some do 50mph in the 30mph zones) -then you must put a little bit of the blame on the man/woman behind the wheel for causing the death of the silly pedestrian? No? Or, rather are you glad that the silly pedestrian is dead?
Sounds like it to me.....

Happy Motoring -stay safe.”

“Mick,then with them statistics then a good idea would be to educate the pedestrian, instead of the targeting motorists all the time because most of the time they are the one's at fault and not the car driver!!.”

“To start off, I use my Cruise control to make sure I don't speed, by golly it holds up a few people who obviously do.

However, the most dangerous section of the A500 is currently the roadwork section during the day (when no-one is working!!!) and the camera van is out earning money. There are more brake lights and emergency manouvers all because of that poorly marked money van.

If you are really interested in controlling spped, use average speed cameras not jokers in a one spot van.

Safety Partnership my XXXX”

“Why do people speed?

Here are some facts about speed in relation to life and death...which many of you will have acquainted yourselves with -but most of you -especially those who believe 'speeding is good for you'.

And, remember, these facts can be checked out as 'proof-read stats' -evidence based.
Let's look at the 'slower end of the market' first -For every mph over 30mph when a pedestrian is struck full on, 1 in 10 of those unfortunates dies.
On a sliding scale, with each mph increase of speed up to 40mph -it becomes 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10 out of 10 struck at 40mph. Those are the cold facts in the mortuary.
Now whether that pedestrian was struck by a person using a mobile 'phone, or lighting a fag, or controlling an unruly child on the back seat -or whatever or distraction you can dream up -momentarily -if that leads to a person being 'run-over' (hit) then the speed of the vehicle at the time defines the 'risk of fatality' -on the scale above. (according to Accident Investigators etc)

Now, you can deduce from that whatever you want -but it clearly shows that speed plays a part in the degree of injury or death ... Transfer that to motorway type high speeds and you can see that surviving a momentarily lapse -or deliberate, and reckless attitudes to other motorists, which results in a collision -then those involved -be it the perpetrator or the innocent victim -are more likely not to survive if the cars were -or even one of them was doing 80mph instead of the mandatory 50mph.

Happy motoring folks....”