Fae Fife wrote:
broxibear wrote:
Now a driver up here was recently done on a hand held camera at 57mph in a 30 zone at 3pm and rightly deserves to have the book thrown at him, or be issued with a restricted badge if he can pove it was a "one off" after many years conviction free driving, but for many of us its more the case of 1 or 2mph over the limit, a conviction that is issued daily to many thousands of drivers with the ever incresing amount of cameras, guns, specs and vans that are out on the roads today.
Don't know about your part of Fife broxibear, but up here apart from the odd camera van that's about it really - and since I usually work nights, when I don't think they come out much, I've only seen one speed trap of any kind for a couple of years. I don't think there are any fixed speed cameras in Fife at all, and the nearest ones are the other side of the Forth Bridge and north of Dundee on the trunk road to Aberdeen.
I've never heard of anyone being done for being 1 or 2 mph over the limit, is this common? I thought it was usually 10% at least.
When i said 1 or 2mph over i meant including the 10% over, i.e 41 or 42mph in a 30 zone. As for the fixed cameras in fife your correct in that we dont have any fixed camera points as plod in fife use the mobile camera vans, unfortunately as the HQ for fife is in our town i think most of the vans sit around Glenrothes, notoriuos roads if you are down this way are Cadham Rd, Woodside Rd, Woodside Way, A92 just after new inn roundabout (slows to a 50mph zone) Formonthills Rd, dual carraigeway between the Bankhead r/about Glenrothes and Redhouse r/about Kirkcaldy (60 zone) and various points between Redhouse r/about Kirkcaldy and Halbeath junction Dunfermline (70 zone)
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