Another one. I don’t believe this. I’m not going to Wales again. Two trips, three speeding tickets. This one on the A449. If anyone can tell me where the damn camera is (I sure as hell didn’t see one), I’d be most grateful. I think they’ve just got a guy at the side of the road who stands there and notes random car numbers down for a laugh.
There certainly aren’t any signs on that road warning of cameras – if there were, I’d not have been speeding. Which kind of tells you that the camera can’t be there to reduce accidents. Nice to know I’m funding the next policeman’s ball. If they’d have asked I’d have given a donation.
Interesting fact – there are approximately 4000 speed cameras in the UK. The number of those on the most “dangerous” 50 roads, those which suffer the greatest number of accidents? Six.
Sorry, I’m all for putting them up around schools and so on. Anyone doing more than the limit in an area where kids could be walking and playing deserves to have their license taken off them with immediate effect. But on a relatively quiet, two-lane, straight A-road in the middle of nowhere with no serious accident record? *Ker-ching*
And as for that muppet who’s running the police in North Wales… good grief. “Accidentally drifting over the speed limit is tantamount to accidentally drifting a knife into someone.” What?! No it isn’t! Check out the crime figures since this Road Nazi took over as well. OK, so they’re prosecuting motorists left, right and centre. Very profitable. But they’ve posted the worst ever prosecution record for theft, robbery and so forth in decades.
Am I alone in thinking that doing 80 in a 70 zone is a little more forgiveable than battering Granny Miggins over the head with a hammer so I can make off with her pension book? Or smashing into the Smith’s house and nicking all their kids’ Christmas presents?
North Wales Police – reality check, please. No, I wasn’t nabbed by North Wales. I got done by the jobsworths in Gwent (again). It just pisses me off.
most police officers, in the north wales police are paedophiles, and racists, they do a crap job, especially the traffic warden who sits behind hedges looking at childfren playing
I’m kinda guessing someone got a parking ticket recently…