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One Speed Camera Responsible For Huge Rise In Fines
Article by: rob brady
Date: 5 Aug 2014
Almost 39,000 drivers were caught by speed cameras across Derbyshire in the 12 months to June 2014, compared to just over 22,000 in the previous year.
Although the increase will result in a substantial rise in speeding fines collected for the UK Treasury, 16,451 of those caught opted to complete speed awareness courses which are offered as an alternative to fines and penalty points.
The overall rise has been attributed to just one set of average speed cameras on a stretch of the M1 snapping 18,000 motorists.
Alan Charles, Derbyshire's police and crime commissioner commented on the figures: "As can be seen, there was a significant rise in speeding offences in 2013-2014. This rise can be attributed to the introduction in December of average speed cameras on the M1 put in place to help protect the workforce completing the road works."
The speed cameras will remain after the road works are completed to enable Derbyshire to enforce reduced speed limits during congestion.
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 Posted by Kremmen on Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:04 pm |
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I was on the A23 at the weekend and a few came past me doing 45-50 in the 40mph specs zone.
This is one scenario where I do make use of my cruise control.
ps: The specs cameras from here were spot on with the start and finish of the zone.
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| Posted by M8TJT on Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:07 pm |
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| Rob Wrote: | | Almost 39,000 drivers were caught by speed cameras across Derbyshire in the 12 months to June 2014, compared to just over 22,000 in the previous year |
I see that they are working to reduce the number of people speeding then. Up by 77% 
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| Posted by lillyelse on Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:17 pm |
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| M8TJT Wrote: | | Rob Wrote: | | Almost 39,000 drivers were caught by speed cameras across Derbyshire in the 12 months to June 2014, compared to just over 22,000 in the previous year |
I see that they are working to reduce the number of people speeding then. Up by 77% |
So much for the recently proposed increased speed limit on motorways. The proposal to lift the current 70 limit to 80 because that' s what is considered the norm has been hit by the EU directive that the motorway speed limit is reduced to around 50 /60 MPH. We'll all be driving at articulated speeds soon.
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| Posted by M8TJT on Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:01 pm |
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| lillyelse Wrote: | | has been hit by the EU directive that the motorway speed limit is reduced to around 50 /60 MPH. |
Reference?
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| Posted by Daggers on Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:36 am |
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| M8TJT Wrote: | | lillyelse Wrote: | | has been hit by the EU directive that the motorway speed limit is reduced to around 50 /60 MPH. |
Reference? |
I'm guessing this is referring to the suggestion earlier this year that motorway speed limits in certain areas should be reduced to 60mph in an effort to meet EU pollution targets.
However this suggestion was more recently shelved, (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28210416), so I don't imagine we'll be seeing any change in the current 70mph limit for the foreseeable future.
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| Posted by marksfish on Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:47 pm |
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Spain tried reducing speed limits last year, supposedly to help reduce pollution. The government spent millions changing road signs, only for the limits to be raised again a few months later, allegedly due to the lack of revenue generated by the fuel savings!!
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| Posted by DennisN on Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:49 pm |
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| lillyelse Wrote: | | We'll all be driving at articulated speeds soon. |
Yesterday I had to do 70 to pass an artic (very slowly) on the way to Glasgow.
Dennis
If it tastes good - it's fattening.
Two of them are obesiting!! |
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| Posted by Philip on Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:54 pm |
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| Kremmen Wrote: | | I was on the A23 at the weekend and a few came past me doing 45-50 in the 40mph specs zone. |
Even assuming that you were working from a calibrated speedometer rather than the (designed to over read) one in your car, ACPO guidelines (10% + 2mph) mean that it's unlikely that the SPECS would be set at anything below 46mph on that stretch. If your observations were based on an uncalibrated speedometer, it's quite possible that the cars you estimated at 50mph were actually driving at or below 46mph, and so were very unlikely to have been prosecuted.
Also - even if they passed you at 100mph, they may have been going much more slowly elsewhere on the stretch between the cameras, bringing their overall average speed within tolerance.
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| Posted by M8TJT on Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:26 pm |
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I suspect that Dennis was averaging out the speed readout from his six sat nave devices which is likely to give him a more accurate speed than his speedo. 
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| Posted by DennisN on Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:27 am |
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How are the mighty fallen? I now have only three. And of those, one is the built in rubbish Renault R-Link TomTom, so it doesn't really count.
Anyway, in order to average out my 173mph for 12 seconds, I had to stop on the hard shoulder in the roadworks for 98 minutes to get the average down to 40mph.
And at one point, I noticed a contractor's van INSIDE the roadworks coned area, doing at least 50mph past an average camera, but I suppose he was OK because he'd been parked there for two days doing nothing.
Dennis
If it tastes good - it's fattening.
Two of them are obesiting!! |
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