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• Number plate mystery 7 Mar 2009 (Forum)
  If you're running a huge criminal scam, why pick a number which is going to alert every patrol car and anpr camera in the country ? Ted
• If you could change one piece of legislation...... 28 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  -Tougher penalties for uninsured drivers. -Embark on a road-building programme to bring us into the 21st century. -Replace all speed cameras with radar speed signs and traffic police. -Bring back fixed fuel duty, abolish escalator. -Replace all unsightly traffic calming measures with radar speed signs.
• How many points!? 25 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  Talking to a friend in the office today and he told that he's managed to get 9 points on his licence in the space of 2 hours! He's had a clean licence for 20 odd years but got caught from the same mobile police camera van on the same stretch of road within 2 hours! needless to say he was a bit upset when NIP's came through the door totalling £180 and his insurance will rocket. 1st one was 38mph in 30 zone, then 39mph and then 41mph in a 30 zone.
• Red light in front and Ambulance behind 22 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  Should I have waited for green light and hold up the Ambulance? what about if there was traffic light camera? Your opinions needed.
• What was this? Overhead gantry+speeding car 24 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  I thought to myself "Rather you than me" as he went under a gantry (And this is where I would like to know if I was imagining things) and I saw some flashes and the faint outline of a speed camera sign displayed on the dot matrix displays. Is this a genuine feature of the gantries - warning when someone has been caught? A test mode of some sort left activated? Just the flash 'leaking' through to the oncoming traffic display side of the gantry?
• If a tree falls over in a forest... 5 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  However, this is a junction with which you are very familiar, there is unobstructed vision for a long way along all the roads, weather is perfect visibility, and there are no other cars anywhere near the junction. There are no cameras or cops anywhere near. What would you do? Would you jump the lights? Or would you stop and wait until they have turned green? Personally, I would jump the lights. This is because laws are blunt instruments and not always the absolute decider of what is morally right.
• Dangerous driving by a taxi 4 Mar 2008 (Forum)
  Tonight a taxi overtook me by crossing double white lines at about 50 in a 30 limit; 200 yards further along, approaching a queue at traffic lights in the left lane of the dual carriageway, it took the right-turn-only right lane, then cut across the front of the left lane queue at speed and disappeared up the road. Now I am all for making progress and I abhor revenue cameras, but this kind of idiocy is really not what one expects or should allow from a licensed hackney carriage. I couldn't read the taxi number off the side as it shot past, but I did note the registration number; my question is, is it worth reporting this to either the boys in blue or the local council, or is an unsupported allegation a waste of time?
• The unfairness of it all 23 Jan 2008 (Forum)
  , will be driving around in a group one car if im lucky enough to get a courtesy car, and this idiot will get off with no points (waste of time ringing the police these days), but of course if I drive through a speed camera a few mph over the limit i will get hammered, my car crumpled a little too well - where can i get a family car with NO crumple zone?, and hardly a scratch on his van how did it come to this why arent we systematically getting idiots like this off the road?
• Editing of IHAQ Vols 212 and 213. 10 Dec 2007 (Forum)
  Sorry - your postings were shifted about a bit whilst IHAQ 213 was being built in the shed outside. JBJ's response to Cheddar's camera question has now been tacked onto the thread within 212 and therefore runs logically. I hid the Bank Branch question under the stairs for a while and then took it out, dusted it off and put it into Vol 213 once the paint had dried on it.
• Continental motoring - bliss 29 Aug 2007 (Forum)
  Belgium Mons - Charlerois - Namur - Ardennes: Auoroutes, well surfaced, very little traffic Belgian main roads: some rubbish surfaces but generally very smooth, very little traffic Belgian minor roads: mixed bag, very little traffic Luxembourg: didn't travel extensively but what I did experience was very good surfaces and very little traffic. Everywhere: no over-regulation of traffic, no over-signing, no cameras; motorists treated like responsible adults. Iffy surfaces vs BMW M Sport suspension aside, the driving was a joy. I think I'll be back for a second helping come half-term.
• National Speed Limits 31 Jul 2007 (Forum)
  Maybe I'm wrong maybe the rules have changed to those in the Highway code. Or is it that speed cameras detect something moving at a certain trigger point regardless of size/type meaning that they can drive at car limits without fear of being caught. Can anyone explain?
• broken roadsprings 25 Jul 2007 (Forum)
  Could you imagine selling the thing and the customer drives it 3 feet prior to the front end dropping. the photos from the camera was only £18 so no moaning mind. http://tinyurl.com/22qlrc http://tinyurl.com/25q4z3 (there are no bugs you can open with confidenty) :-)
• 2 things, Insurance and Sat Nav 7 Jul 2007 (Forum)
  Really wanted as the missus and kids are of to the South of France for the summer and has said she wold like to travel around a bit so has suggested SatNav, any recommendations to include 'safety Camera Alerts' Ta
• Council Raising Speeding Thresholds 8 Mar 2007 (Forum)
  First bit of commonsense I have heard from a politician in a long time! As the council are part of the Safety Camera Partnership' it will be interesting to see if the idea comes to fruition. -- Fullchat
• What really REALLY annoys me......! 13 Feb 2007 (Forum)
  You're overtaken slowly, very very slowly, by a Honda Civic or a Volvo S40. A few hundred yards down the road you come up to a yellow Gatso camera, you see it and lift imperceptably to get down to 70ish when the pink fluffy dice ahead in the Honda/Volvo slows down abruptly due to some Pavlovian response to about 60 mph, causing you to have to have to brake needlessly, overtake then get overtaken again and so on down the whole pink fluffy dice road...................................makes me maaaad!!!!
• inconsiderate pulling out 14 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  Was driving to the office this morning, past the local school. its a 30 and i dont speed through here - the boys in blue like to set up a camera just after. Obviously just dropped the kids off, a old toyota people carrier pulls out right in front of me, dangerously in my opinion, and he/she doenst make much of an effort to get up to speed, causing me to brake , .
• Missing numberplate scam 1 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  I've never asked him but the only thing I can think of is that he removes them to prevent being caught on camera from the front. If stopped he could argue that he didn't know it had 'dropped off' and presumably be charged with a lesser offence or even charm the plod into letting him off. Obviously he couldn't use this story if he removed front and rear plates.
• ideas to improve easy motoring 5 Jun 2006 (Forum)
  1 How much time is wasted sitting at traffic lights on red, waiting to turn left, with absoloutely nothing going.By allowing movement it will stop pollution and wasting time, it's worked well in the U.S for decades. 2 Traffic lights, for MOST industial sites, turned off at weekend. 3 H.g.v lorries having a disc on their back with approx weight carrying at any one time, so a driver knows his 5ton load, should be able to overtake a 32 ton lorry whilst going up hill, to avoid long tail backs. 4 At scenes of accidents, a camera set up, on the other carriageway to prevent rubber neckers, causing unessary tailbacks, and frequently more collisions. 5 BANNING CARAVANS during day light hours!!
• Traffic Lights A316 Westbound 9 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  The lights have small black triangular loudspeaker-like "boxes" mounted above them. Are they sensors or cameras? I know there is virtually no defense against going through a red light - but if one could see they were operational to start with it would help!! Any advice/comments welcome....
• GPS Antenna location - BMW 18 Nov 2005 (Forum)
  I am currently experiencing problems with a new speed camera detector (Micro Road Pilot) unit and would welcome any advice on the best GPS antenna location on a 2002 E46 320d SE, and would also appreciate any info regarding whether this model is fittied with a UV windscreen that could seriously impede the signal to the antenna.