Speed Cameras - switch off date vs prosecution chase end date ?

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by ranathari

A camera outside a primary school saw the average speed go from 30mph to 40mph, going from a speed that'll hurt a child to one that'll kill a child more often than not. Given most drivers are idiots unable to judge when breaking the speed limit is appropriate (while I speed, I'd never do it around a school), I think we'll see this funding decision reversed once some high profile child fatalities occur.

Will it mean a return to kids looking before running into the road?

They're kids FFS

I wish there were 20mph limits at every school and cams to enforce.

[Steve_God]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Will it mean a return to kids looking before running into the road?

Possible return of some road safety adverts too maybe...

To be fair there does seem to be an instance of "we must be protected" rrther than doing it ourselves?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Will it mean a return to kids looking before running into the road?

Kids will be kids and adults have responsibilities towards them. Not driving like a berk around schools is a fairly important one so it's a shame people responded towards the removal of speed cameras outside a school by going faster.

[timwilky]

Probably returning to the speed that has been safe and appropriate for decades until safety nazi's decide they shouldn't teach janet and john to cross the road safely and use crossings, green cross code or tufty etc. Instead tell motorists they will kill a kid if they run into the road. Why not tell kids you will die if you run into the road.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by arenalife

They're kids FFS

I wish there were 20mph limits at every school and cams to enforce.

What do you mean FFS?

FFS, they're KIDS, they don't KNOW that getting run over hurts like a b*stard.
so TEACH them to watch the road.

I would actually agree, (part time) cameras outside schools would be great. But there is part of me which says drivers watching their speed, aren't watching out for kids running out.

Originally Posted by arenalife

I wish there were 20mph limits at every school and cams to enforce.

And I wish that parents didn't park over the school zone road markings, in the bus stops, on the corner of junctions, and on double yellow lines when they come to pick up their little darlings.

[Kalessin]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I would actually agree, (part time) cameras outside schools would be great. But there is part of me which says drivers watching their speed, aren't watching out for kids running out.

There's a part of me that says drivers who can't be aware of their speed and watch out for children near a school shouldn't be allowed on the road.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Kalessin

There's a part of me that says drivers who can't be aware of their speed and watch out for children near a school shouldn't be allowed on the road.

BS.
You glance down at your speedo when you go through a camera. That's probably half a second, which is half a second further down the road addition to your thinking distance should a child run out.

I do not agree that both things can happen simultaneously. Your eyes can not differentiate between a moving target and other moving targets in your peripheral vision like that.