ATTN Silver SUV licence CK04 VGT

[twinsmom]

To the Silver SUV license CK04 VGT driving over 40mph last night in ED just before 9pm PLEASE SLOW DOWN! You almost hit my husband last night and didn't even seem to notice. We have small children just starting to ride their bikes on the road and while they were in bed last night if you are out on the road at any time you need to obey the speed limits. There are speed bumps on the road for a reason NOT for you to test out the power of your 4x4!

To all drivers...with longer daylight and sunny days there are more cyclists on the road than ever before. Please be careful and try to observe the 20mph speed limit.

[DulwichFox]

Whilst I support your concern about speeding motorists I question your ability to judge their speed.

... and your ability to take down their registration plate at that speed..

DulwichFox

[LD929]

Its very easy to tell if someone is speeding. Doesn't matter if it was 30 mph or 40 mph. Either way, if they hit someone, that person can die.

People speed way too much on backroads, and it is very dangerous.

[dirac]

I'm on danby st and the cars fly up it like it's a race course. The fact there's a school at the bottom now seems to not affect it; and the speed bumps are useless because you can probably straddle them in a smartcar. I have no sympathy for people caught speeding, even if the camera is in a 'sneaky' place.

[fizzmoll]

In Norway, the speed cameras read the license plate and compute the average speed *between* cameras as well as checking the speed at each location. Great way to get people to slow down on country roads, motorways etc. Clever clever norwegians...

[Jeremy]

fizzmoll Wrote:

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> In Norway, the speed cameras read the license

> plate and compute the average speed *between*

> cameras as well as checking the speed at each

> location. Great way to get people to slow down on

> country roads, motorways etc. Clever clever

> norwegians...

We have them here too... have done for quite some time. I guess they're more costly than regular cameras.

[Loz]

They're also almost entirely useless on side streets. Great for motorways, though.

[rendelharris]

dirac Wrote:

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> I'm on danby st and the cars fly up it like it's a

> race course. The fact there's a school at the

> bottom now seems to not affect it; and the speed

> bumps are useless because you can probably

> straddle them in a smartcar. I have no sympathy

> for people caught speeding, even if the camera is

> in a 'sneaky' place.

Well said - the limits are there for a reason and if you don't break them you don't have to worry. People bitching about "sneaky" speed cameras (and I've been caught twice being silly on a motorcycle, most notably doing 50mph down the Mall, of course there are never many coppers in that area! Bloody well served me right) seem to me akin to shoplifters complaining that if the supermarket hadn't got CCTV they wouldn't have been caught.

[rendelharris]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Whilst I support your concern about speeding

> motorists I question your ability to judge their

> speed.

>

> ... and your ability to take down their

> registration plate at that speed..

>

> DulwichFox

It's actually quite easy to tell if someone's doing twice the speed limit - it's pretty obvious, and as for taking down the plate maybe the car had to slow for a corner, or perhaps twinsmom's feller has a helmet/handlebar cam?

[fizzmoll]

Hmm you sure you got the right reg no?

http://rate-driver.co.uk/CK04UGT

http://www.ukvehicle.com/CK04UGT

Seems to be a Ford Focus in Cardiff....

[rendelharris]

fizzmoll Wrote:

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> Hmm you sure you got the right reg no?

>

> http://rate-driver.co.uk/CK04UGT

> http://www.ukvehicle.com/CK04UGT

>

> Seems to be a Ford Focus in Cardiff....

If it's 2004 might have changed a few hands across the UK in the last twelve years - also cars are generally registered at their port of entry to the UK then shipped to dealerships across the country.

[fizzmoll]

Still seems like a mismatch: "Blue 2004 Ford Focus Edge" doesn't sound like the same as a "Silver SUV".

[Pugwash]

stolen number plates?

[Loz]

Blurred vision?

[fizzmoll]

maybe hard to read the plates because the car was going so fast :P

[Bony Fido]

With modern GPS and tracking it should possible to have a satellite to detect and identify any vehicle which exceeds the 20mph limit on Lordship Lane.

And then all we need do is adapt Ronald Reagan's Star Wars technology to instantly vaporise the blighters so they can't do it again - "Simples" !

[twinsmom]

Sorry it must be a V and not a U. It was going very fast. I don't know the exact speed but significantly over the limit. Regardless if it was 40 or 45, the message is please slow down!

[JohnL]

Bony Fido Wrote:

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> With modern GPS and tracking it should possible to

> have a satellite to detect and identify any

> vehicle which exceeds the 20mph limit on Lordship

> Lane.

>

> And then all we need do is adapt Ronald

> Reagan's Star Wars technology to instantly

> vaporise the blighters so they can't do it again -

> "Simples" !

Unless you're a diplomat - got overtaken by one of those

at over 100 on the M1.

[DulwichFox]

I think it would be a good idea to edit the title of this thread and remove the car registration number.

DulwichFox