Challenging a speed camera ticket due to no "change of speed" sign

Ahh, I thought so....

I have just received my FOI answer from Dorset police for how many speeding tickets have been issued from that camera. Obviously it was not worth having it there for the poxy few dozen tickets it issued every year, so they dropped the speed limit (even though Crashmap reveals no serious accidents for years before the limit was reduced.....)
It's enough to make one a bit cynical

Year - Speeding tickets from the camera at A348 Ringwood Rd West Howe (a primary route dual carriageway).
(the speed limit reduced in 2023, no data was given for that year, one can only speculate how high it was !) :

2020 - 39
2021 - 55
2022 - 32
2024 - 11,594
2025 - 3054 (pro rata = 6665)

Total = 14,774

4,875 were to vehicles not registered in an BH postcode (which I would venture to suggest would be a significantly higher percentage than that of the BH registered vehicles passing that site)

So, according to some of the esteemed contributors to this forum, that's nearly 15,000 drivers who "do not deserve to have a driving licence", from one camera.
 
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SheffMan said:
Ahh, I thought so....

I have just received my FOI answer from Dorset police for how many speeding tickets have been issued from that camera. Obviously it was not worth having it there for the poxy few dozen tickets it issued every year, so they dropped the speed limit (even though Crashmap reveals no serious accidents for years before the limit was reduced.....)
It's enough to make one a bit cynical

Year - Speeding tickets from the camera at A348 Ringwood Rd West Howe (a primary route dual carriageway).
(the speed limit reduced in 2023, no data was given for that year, one can only speculate how high it was !) :

2020 - 39
2021 - 55
2022 - 32
2024 - 11,594
2025 - 3054 (pro rata = 6665)

Total = 14,774

4,875 were to vehicles not registered in an BH postcode (which I would venture to suggest would be a significantly higher percentage than that of the BH registered vehicles passing that site)

So, according to some of the esteemed contributors to this forum, that's nearly 15,000 drivers who "do not deserve to have a driving licence", from one camera.
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Could someone just check my back of the envelope calculation as to how much money that camera has generated since that speed limit was dropped to 30mph in March 23. I have estimated how many speeding tickets were issued for 2023 from March to Dec, and it wouldn't be less than 2024's figure, so that would be 9,000 at least. So, that's over 23,000 tickets at £100 or more (for the fine or the speed awareness cost) I reckon that camera has generated way over 2 Million pounds. Plus it has caused much anguish to all those drivers (it certainly wound me up) but almost certainly not saved any lives, and probably not even prevented any serious injuries either.
I am so shocked by that figure of £2 million I must have made an error some where !
 
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SheffMan said:
Could someone just check my back of the envelope calculation as to how much money that camera has generated since that speed limit was dropped to 30mph in March 23. I have estimated how many speeding tickets were issued for 2023 from March to Dec, and it wouldn't be less than 2024's figure, so that would be 9,000 at least. So, that's over 23,000 tickets at £100 or more (for the fine or the speed awareness cost) I reckon that camera has generated way over 2 Million pounds. Plus it has caused much anguish to all those drivers (it certainly wound me up) but almost certainly not saved any lives, and probably not even prevented any serious injuries either.
I am so shocked by that figure of £2 million I must have made an error some where !
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That's a lot of people who can't read.
 
chanjy said:
Get over it bud honestly just move on with your life!
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I agree but also disagree.
Too many people just accept stuff that really needs something doing about it, that's how they get away with it.
That limit should never have bene dropped from 40 to 30, it has almost certainly not saved any lives or serious injuries at all*. What it has done is pee off thousands of motorists, plus, purely coincidentally (obviously), raise about £2.5 million in fines and/or "fees".

* The fatalities were about 8 years before and (according to Crashmap) they were further west plus on the other side of the DC. Most significantly I could not see a speed camera on that side when I looked on Google Streetview. Maybe there is one there, perhaps a local could confirm either way, and how long it has been there ?
 
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So, you put in a FOI request on a speed camera because you exceeded the speed limit and got caught.

Then you point out how much revenue the camera has generated, without seeming to consider that if people just kept to the speed limit it would generate nothing.

How much money, in resources, time, and staffing did Dorset Police have to put into providing your answers to the FOI request?

Complain to your MP, as it's the Councils that set the speed limits, not the Police. The Police might not even get any revenue from the cameras.

You broke the law, and are trying to blame someone else for your behaviour.
 
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