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Qualified rally driver / instructor. Don't need educating on the roads pal. I know how to drive safely and not endanger others. It's the others I have to worry about.

 

And these pathetic cameras in trap spots.

 

This is where we know it’s a troll or good old-fashioned ****-stirrer (and a quite successful one at that - 37 posts from one incendiary post thrown into the room).

Still, let’s think about the troll’s unlikely claims:

Remind me how much opposing traffic you find on a rally course, where your co-driver/navigator knows every bend, dip, hollow, gradient, camber almost to degree that a caddy knows a golf hole.

What relevance does a rally driver’s skill set have for the random set of hazards we meet every day on our roads.

Plus, if the rally driver can’t get his speed down for the next muddy turn having descended a steep hill, he and his co-driver end up in neck braces. So the troll really ought to be able to get his speed down on tarmac.

 

The first and last rally driver I sat next to in on-road training was the most conservative driver I had met that year. I’d suggest we all take a leaf out of his book and keep our on-road stuff boring. Other track/race instructors I’ve sat with as a passenger keep their on-road activities as boring and uneventful as they can. They get their kicks some other way.

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Dear me! As soon as someone states they are a professional driver and that they don’t need educating I become concerned.

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They just need a trip to Specsavers if they can't see a big camera van!

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As the blue (registered white) van is breaking the law, surely it cannot operate as a speed camera vehicle. It should not be on the road. What if it caused an accident, would it's driver be prosecuted for causing an accident and operating a motor vehicle of the wrong colour in relation to its log book.

 

Angel1.

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You must have dug deep to find that ten year old article :)

 

Nope I remembered it.. I think it's happened more recently too

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Nope I remembered it.. I think it's happened more recently too

 

Better memory than me, I just forgot what I had for tea!

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Nope I remembered it.. I think it's happened more recently too

 

Couple of years ago in Humberside, hiding inside a Horsebox and a Tractor.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3253234/Police-target-rural-bikers-roadside-speed-cameras-hidden-horseboxes-TRACTOR.html

 

Although the police firmly blame speeding in the area, the article does indicate many collisions are due to drivers performing manuverus without bothering to look properly first.

 

when you consider how many side roads and field entrances there are.

 

'Someone pulling out onto the road does not expect a vehicle coming towards them at such high speeds, the likelihood of a catastrophic collision is raised considerably.

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Couple of years ago in Humberside, hiding inside a Horsebox and a Tractor.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3253234/Police-target-rural-bikers-roadside-speed-cameras-hidden-horseboxes-TRACTOR.html

 

Although the police firmly blame speeding in the area, the article does indicate many collisions are due to drivers performing manuverus without bothering to look properly first.

 

So, let’s have the Police play by the rules (guidelines, rather), let’s keep it tidy and perfect - cameras make themselves obvious and nobody gets caught ... tractors don’t pull out in a SMIDSY moment (...) and nobody dies.

That’ll be a perfect day, then -

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So, let’s have the Police play by the rules (guidelines, rather), let’s keep it tidy and perfect - cameras make themselves obvious and nobody gets caught ... tractors don’t pull out in a SMIDSY moment (...) and nobody dies.

That’ll be a perfect day, then -

 

Won't normally marked speeding camera vehicles do more to raise awareness of speeding though? After all, the aim isn't to fine people, it's to raise awareness and change behaviour.

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So, let’s have the Police play by the rules (guidelines, rather), let’s keep it tidy and perfect - cameras make themselves obvious and nobody gets caught ... tractors don’t pull out in a SMIDSY moment (...) and nobody dies.

That’ll be a perfect day, then -

 

Funnily that does quite accurately portray another great problem with those kind of incidents.

Someone pulls out when they shouldn't, realises too late - but then continues to pull out anyway?!?!

 

You see that thing all the time, people make a mistake, realise they're in the wrong but plough on regardless in the hope other road users will take action to avoid them.

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