90 Percent of Wakefield's Speed Cameras Are Dummies

[RobBrady]

The Wakefield Express have reported that drivers have a 90% chance of not being caught when speeding past the town's cameras.

During a neighbourhood police team meeting, Bob Wyatt, Wakefield Council's senior traffic engineer claimed "The chance of there being a camera within each speed camera box isn't very high. There are some that I know where there's never been a camera."

He also confirmed that even when speeding past the remaining working cameras within a 30mph zone, a driver would normally have to exceed 36mph to be prosecuted.

People attending meeting were also told that Wakefield had one of the lowest accident rates in West Yorkshire and the UK.
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Robert Brady
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[jmcmtank]

I'm in Wakefield all the time and wondered how they could afford so many cameras. Must say they are very polite drivers, unlike their counterparts in Glasgow.

[MikeB]

[dcfjm]

I notified pocketGPSworld to 3 cameras when they were installed in Wakefield...but I wouldnt like to be the one to ''try them out''...the 3 near me do slow everybody down..If you want to take chances with cameras..be it on your own head...its a well known fact that not all cameras have film in all the time..

[banger9365]

there might not be a camera in the gatso's put they do slow us lot down shame about the taxi's in wakey .
what we got 20 odd cameras and only one or two work on 3 roads

they are dummys ,you can see when you go passed them, there is no camera in them

[culzean]

I guess having a 90% chance of not being caught by a camera is the same as you having a 10% chance of being flashed - still too high a probability for me to lose 3 points on a 9 to 1 bet.

[BigPerk]

You could probably reduce the odds by following the taxis, banger9365 If anyone knows the dummies, they will!

Certainly when going round London's North Circular when it's busy, it's fairly obvious which cameras (presumably regular) drivers think need paying attention to
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David
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