People don't slow down - they come to a screeching halt. Where I live we have a series of cameras - and just before the cameras is where you get the most rear end shunt accidents.
The police have finally gotten round to obeying the law - a little - and colouring the actual camera boxes yellow, making them stand out a little more, except most of the time they're behind a big direction sign, so you can't see them anyway.
If speed cameras were just round populated areas, I'd be more convinced that its a safety issue. Sticking them on a busy 70MPH dual carriageway screams money grabbing pigs.
Oh - and contesting them? IANAL - but you can make the police prove that the camera has been calibrated - and if its a handheld camera, that the officer has been trained to use it.
Unmanned cameras might only get you if you're 10MPH over - manned cameras, however, where the cop has a radar gun, will get you if you're going as little as 5MPH over. Trust me, I learnt this lesson twice.
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People don't slow down - they come to a screeching halt. Where I live we have a series of cameras - and just before the cameras is where you get the most rear end shunt accidents.
The police have finally gotten round to obeying the law - a little - and colouring the actual camera boxes yellow, making them stand out a little more, except most of the time they're behind a big direction sign, so you can't see them anyway.
If speed cameras were just round populated areas, I'd be more convinced that its a safety issue. Sticking them on a busy 70MPH dual carriageway screams money grabbing pigs.
Oh - and contesting them? IANAL - but you can make the police prove that the camera has been calibrated - and if its a handheld camera, that the officer has been trained to use it.
Unmanned cameras might only get you if you're 10MPH over - manned cameras, however, where the cop has a radar gun, will get you if you're going as little as 5MPH over.
Trust me, I learnt this lesson twice.