Council operated safety cameras

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Tue 11 Nov 2008 19:03
Council operated safety cameras - GandA
On my travels I often see council owned safety camera vans poised at the roadside ready to catch those exceeding the speed limit. I used to work for a utility company and one thing immediately jumps out at me. As these vehicles are owned and operated by a utility should they, and indeed are they, subject to compliance with the New Road and Street Works Act or by what ever act that may have replaced it? Any utility vehicle belonging to a council, gas, electricity, telephone company etc that is used in connection with any sort of work on the highway must have appropriate roadworks guarding to be compliant with the act. This means such things as "roadworks ahead" and "road narrows" signs being put out ahead of the vehicle along with cones around the work site itself. In this case the camera van itself. For the sake of the act the highway is considered to be everything between private land on one side of the road and private land on the other side. A vehicle parked in a layby or on a verge for example is still on the highway and so subject to the act. Before you ask. No! I have not been done for speeding, ever.
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