Mole wrote:
For me, it really highlighted just how utterly pointless enforcing an arbitrary limit was. OK, I know its what everyone on here has been saying for ages, but it really was such a graphic illustration. Presumably, long after everyone has forgotten what the weather was like that evening, some scamera partnership gits will be using the accidents to justify their continued parasitic existence! (although actually, in these two cases, they didn't even look like SI, never mind "K"s) Hell! What am I saying?! They obviously weren't Ks or SIs because the scameras ARE doing a good job after all!
Same thoughts. Same road . M74, J 14( southbound) ,I spotted one of these parasites( They used to sit on J13 in hiding ,but that's obviously become too well known). Conditions - excellent.Road surface -excellent. Traffic - one car within half a mile of me. It was sat on a bridge ,cameras pointing toward a bend out of sight of traffic. Safety - IMHO with a lot of years under my belt, it' was a travesty of the regulations. But no doubt it generates income to keep the lasses & laddies in D & G in a job,and if folks are having to attend SAC ,helps to generate income for the county .
After all what would some person dependant on their licence do to prevent three points - and a trip from down south to D & G might cost a few bob, but the offending driver saves three points.
I often wonder if they're prepared to get out there when the weather gets really bad, to sit in a van ,in really cold conditions, when
is a more sensible speed ,and you need underbumper spots to see more than 50yds in front.
Safety - pah- it's all about job security and profits ( or in this case false prophets ) .