Swindon Council reviews Speed Cameras' usage

SimonCatlin

Interesting story from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7506689.stm
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MaFt · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject:

the roads would be safer (at the same cost) if they employed 10 people at £25k specifically for driving around actually manning the roads and still have £150k left for fuel etc!

MaFt

SimonCatlin · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

I posted this originally this morning. Ten minutes later a letter dropped on my door mat with a fixed penalty notice for speeding on the M4 outside Swindon of all places.
Karma?

Far cop, I'll come quietly, but what hacked me off was that I speed up to get out of the way of an unmarked police car with the lights on... I did speak to the very nice people at Wiltshire Police, who did advise me that I should have slowed down to get in a gap!
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MaFt · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject:

gardenshed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 466

bad luck Simon, nice post though Shocked

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DennisN · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:22 am Post subject:

SimonCatlin · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:13 am Post subject:

Location was, according to the very good (secure) website.

M4 (W/BOUND)
BET JCT 16 & 17 AT MP 141/5 (SITE MA6)

Other interesting facts about this location are:

Site length in kilometres (approximate) 2.0
BASELINE FIGURES (supplied to DFT prior to site approval)
Collisions involving fatalities or serious injury 4
Collisions involving any injury 14
Speed at which 85% of motorists were travelling at or below (mph) 81
Motorists exceeding the speed limit (percentage) 52

This is an image of the type of enforcement vehicle that will be used for speed enforcement on the M4 motorway in Wiltshire.

For Health & Safety reasons we are unable to provide actual site photographs of the speed enforcement vehicle. Enforcement at this site is carried out from a vehicle stationed on a nearby motorway overbridge, as per attached example.

More details can be found at http://www.safetycameraswiltshire.co.uk/sites.asp and type in MA6.

I hope this helps?
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DennisN · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

Yes, that's the pair of mobiles in our database numbers 7033 (westbound) and 14111 (eastbound) - I think MaFt will confirm that I regularly report them as active/seen again, indeed I did so only day before yesterday, Monday - seen operating 10:15am Sunday 13th July 2008.

Didn't you have them on your satnav?
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If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

SimonCatlin · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject:

Yes - they are there, but I use my mobile phone for Sat Nav and was using it (hands free) so no alert!

The interesting thing is that I was clocked over 450m away. That is some distance!
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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject:

Privateer · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:51 am Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

And just in case anybody cares, the actual picture in question is of Mobile:14114, looking Eastbound, nearly at M4 Junction 15. Strangely, I haven't seen that one in operation for several months now.
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If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject:

[quote="Andy_P"]

gardenshed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 466

i have not seen any in a while, normally you see a lot in blunstone country, or whatever his name is, N,Wales Rolling Eyes

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