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Several on the A465 west of Abergavenny, either side of an ANPR van. 2
bikes and a car on the east side of the van and 3 cars to the west side.

Repeated at several other non-motorway locations throughout the S Wales
force area.

 

Well, it is the main road from Aber back into the valleys. This particular
unit has been targetting cars without tax and insurance. They have,
according to their own press releases, been quite succesful. The detection
of an illegal vehicle has sometimes led to them stumbling on someone with
an outstanding warrant. I see this as an intelligent use of the technology
as it uses existing databases and does not really infringe on law abiding
motorists' civil liberties.

I've seen a similar unit working on the M4 between Swindon and Bristol on a
Friday evening. Presumably on the assumption that loads of scrotes in dodgy
cars are making their way from Swindon to Bristol for the weekend.

The happy consequence of this is that S Wales traffic cops use their man
hours operating these units. Meanwhile, the minor A roads and B roads are
left alone.

 

Moi? Not at all.

Anyway, the way my luck has been, the past 10 days, I'm a cert for a
tug.

 

Now you are sounding irrational.

I'm getting a bit fucked off with the increasing number of people I know
who have been involved in traffic incidents with uninsured drivers. These
people, at best, lose a no claims bonus on their own insurance.

You want to use a moody plate. Go ahead but accept the risk that you may be
detected. Just because you are Bear, you do not have a right to get away
with it.

Now, take a while to think about it. How would you resolve the issue of
uninsured cunts on the roads?

 

So, you have a man sat in a car with a radio. Asks controller to do a
PNC on a car. They did this in The Bill in the 80s. Now, you have a
digital camera connected via some software to the same database. apart
from the data processing time, where is the difference?

See above

See above

Of course. The fewer that get away with it the better, IMV.

I disagree as far as the issue of detecting uninsured drivers is
concerned.

Of course ANPR can be used for more sinister applications but so can my
use of the internet. I get more uptight about cunts using my personal
information to bombard me with marketing bollocks than I do about the
police snooping on my activities.

Ah, when you run out of anything useful to say, have a dig at the
afflicted.

 

Haha, I laugh at your metanarrative and suggest that the world will become
complete and utter chaos when the likes of me and my baby boomer
antagonists reach cognitive disarray.

 

Is this attitude specific to the Home Office, traffic police or government
en masse?

Only if the latter, you've have held remarkable counsel over recent months
of publicly funded employment.

 

When?

 

The one who stopped my brother's mate on Saturday on the A46 outside
Stratford.

Good thing he wasn't there a couple of minutes earlier is all I can
say.

 

wrote in

Thursday

 

Incitement, more like.

 

I thought it was a timed stage officer, how on earth do you clear it in
under 68 seconds?

 

http://www.glossafetycameras.org.uk/camera.aspx - mobile sites:

A40 NORTHLEACH - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (MONITORED)
60
Mar 1996
A40 HAZLETON
60
Apr 1997
A46 ASHCHURCH - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (COMMUNITY CONCERN)
30
Apr 1997
A40 WHITTINGTON AREA
60
Jul 2003
A417 North of Hartpury
40
Jul 2003
B4215 South East of Rudford
50
Jul 2003
B4221 Picklenash School
30
Jul 2003
B4008 Bristol Road S of Tesco Roundabout
30
Jul 2003
Barrow Hill
30
Jul 2003
A40 GLOUCESTER RD
40
Jul 2003
A429 Near Bourton-on-the-Water
60
Jul 2003
Siddington
30
Jul 2003
A46 North of Nailsworth
40
Jul 2003
MINCHINHAMPTON COMMON - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (COMMUNITY CONCERN)
40
Jul 2003
A4013 PRINCESS ELIZABETH WAY
30
Apr 2004
A417 Maisemore
30
Jul 2003
A4013 PRINCESS ELIZABETH WAY (ARLE)
30
Apr 2004
A436 JUNC WITH B4068 WESTFIELD
60
Jul 2003
A429 FOSSEBRIDGE
40
Apr 2004
B4228 OLD STATION WAY, COLEFORD
30
Apr 2004
A4136 HARROW HILL
40
Apr 2004
A4136 BRIERLEY
40
Apr 2004
A417 BURFORD JUNCTION
70
Apr 2004
A4173 NR ST PETERS SCHOOL
30
Apr 2004
WYMANS LANE
30
Sep 2004
A40 HAMPNETT (EXCEPTIONAL SITE)
60
Mar 1996
A4019 UCKINGTON
50
Jul 2003
A40 The Barringtons
60
Apr 1997
Swindon Lane
30
Jul 2003
A435 Colesbourne
60
Jul 2003
B4215 South of Newent Bypass
50
Jul 2003
A419 Oldends Lane to Stonehouse Court
40
Jul 2003
B4221 Kilcot Village
40
Jul 2003
Abbeymead Avenue
30
Jul 2003
St Georges Road
30
Jul 2003
Gloucester Rd Tewkesbury
40
Jul 2003
B4008 Gloucester Road Stonehouse
30
Jul 2003
A417 Lechlade
40
Jul 2003
A40 ANDOVERSFORD (GARAGE)
60
Jul 2003
B4633 GLOUCESTER ROAD
30
Jul 2003
A4151 Steam Mills
40
Jul 2003
A417 DARTLEY BOTTOM
70
Apr 2004
A4136 LITTLE LONDON
40
Sep 2004
B4228 PERRYGROVE
40
Sep 2004
Chesterton Lane
30
Jul 2003
B4008 BRISTOL ROAD / OLYMPUS PARK
30
Jul 2003
A4136 LOWER LANE, COLEFORD - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (SPECIAL OPERATION)
40
Aug 2005
HIGHFIELD ROAD, LYDNEY - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (SPECIAL OPERATION)
30
Aug 2005
B4231 COLEFORD ROAD, BREAM - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (SPECIAL OPERATION)
30
Aug 2005
FANCY ROAD, PARKEND - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (SPECIAL OPERATION)
30
Aug 2005
B4226 SPEECH HOUSE - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (SPECIAL OPERATION)
60
Aug 2005
A48 STROAT - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (SPECIAL OPERATION)
60
Aug 2005
A40 CHURCHAM - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (COMMUNITY CONCERN)
50
Apr 2004
A40 FARMINGTON EXCEPTIONAL SITE
60
Jul 2003
A38 TWIGWORTH - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (COMMUNITY CONCERN)
40
Nov 2005
A417 GLOUCESTER RD, CORSE - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (COMMUNITY CONCERN)
40
Nov 2005
B4060 KATHERINE LADY BERKELEY SCHOOL - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (COMMUNITY
CONCERN)
30
Nov 2005
A430 HEMPSTEAD BYPASS - EXCEPTIONAL SITE (COMMUNITY CONCERN)
40
Nov 2005

 

I've seen a couple in Swindon & Wilts. Always on dual-carriageways or
motorways and almost always either on or after either roadworks or
post-changes in speed limit[1].

Phil.

[1] My first speeding offence - limit came down from 50 to 40 and on
the first day they had every spare copper in Swindon on that particular
bit of road with 4 guys with hairdryers. They did a roaring trade.

 

That's not when they were used, that's when they were *first* used.

 

Champ says...

We still have uniformed Police officers doing hand held and van based
speed trapping here in Bedfordshire. I saw one on Barkers Lane only last
week - it's a good job I was on the SpazzTrakka as it struggles to hit
30mph between the roundabout and where the speedtrap was sited.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE
Suzuki SV650 K3
Honda CBR600 F-W
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka

 

There was a uniformed laser trap on the A4 just west of the Avebury
roundabout last summer. I know it was uniformed as I pulled over to
ask directions having missed the clear signage at the roundabout.
Don't know why they were bothering really - every car for a mile
either side looked like it had a strobe strapped to the front and by
their own admission they'd not caught anyone all evening.

 

Very shoddy. They haven't even replaced the Gatso on the A38 between
Twigworth and Norton which mysteriously burst into flames about 14 months
ago. The grass has recovered nicely though.

 

I have, and I've got the evidence to prove it.

 

Oh, but I did. Or at least before they photographed me. Just not quite
soon enough to get to speeds they approved of.

Still, all water under the bridge.