Speeding motorists where I live, whats the options?

[almoststew1990]

You can get a proper speed survey done - the black tubes across the road. It will cost a good few hundred pounds. I work with these surveys and you might be surprised that the average speeds are lower than you think - the people doing 70mph are very few and far between but stick out in your mind. Remember your road road probably accommodates hundreds if not thousands of cars a day so it won't effect your averages much if everyone else is doing 34mph. The council will / should be interested in the 85th percentile rather than average (50% percentile) which works in your favour. If your concern is around people racing at 70mph rather than "everyone" doing 40mph, then this sounds more like a social/crime issue than highway speed enforcement issue.

Is it actually causing a "evidenced" safety issue - have a look at crashmap.co.uk to see how many personal injury accident incidents have occurred in last few years. Sadly "near misses" won't count. It may be that people are speeding but not causing accidents. Was the road originally designed to be a 50/60mph road?

 

[ttaskmaster]

You can get a proper speed survey done - the black tubes across the road.

Are these actual tubes, or are they more like thick bungee cables?
We had several of the cable type when the council did their surveys...

Is it actually causing a "evidenced" safety issue - have a look at crashmap.co.uk to see how many personal injury accident incidents have occurred in last few years.

Holy ****!!!!!
83 casualties, 10 of which were serious and another 6 were fatal... That sounds quite bad.
Are these actual accident stats, or just those registered with insurance/claims companies?

Sadly "near misses" won't count. It may be that people are speeding but not causing accidents. Was the road originally designed to be a 50/60mph road?

Ours is a 40, going up to 50 once you get over the hill and round the 65º blind bend across the railway bridge... but there's also a school with a 20mph variable limit.

 

[almoststew1990]

Are these actual tubes, or are they more like thick bungee cables?
We had several of the cable type when the council did their surveys...

The tube method is a hollow tube with air in it and when a car drives over the tube it pushes the air into a sensor. But they're not thick at all.

Holy ****!!!!!
83 casualties, 10 of which were serious and another 6 were fatal... That sounds quite bad.
Are these actual accident stats, or just those registered with insurance/claims companies?

These will be accidents are based on police records, so a) the police had to be involved and b) someone was injured. A little scrape in a queue of traffic won't be included. Check that your accident search isn't over the full 19 years as that is a lot of accidents! It will be 83 accidents, could have been more than one casualty involved in the accident.

Ours is a 40, going up to 50 once you get over the hill and round the 65º blind bend across the railway bridge... but there's also a school with a 20mph variable limit.[/QUOTE]

 

[Psycho Sonny]

A motorcyclist was killed but some years ago, does it take a car ploughing into a group of school children to get a speed camera these days?

speed cameras are a loss maker. they cost money. government is too busy paying MP's ridiculous wages and back handers, etc.

as soon as the camera goes up all that will happen is they slow down for the camera then boot it when they are past it.

you could just forget about it. it's not something i would worry about.

 

[ttaskmaster]

But they're not thick at all.

About 6-10mm, twin black tubes across the road?

Check that your accident search isn't over the full 19 years as that is a lot of accidents! It will be 83 accidents, could have been more than one casualty involved in the accident.

This is 83 casualties (I counted) over 52 separate incidents, in 19 years.
8 of these incidents occurred within 50yds of my house, including my own mentioned earlier, and 3 of the 6 fatalities.

 

[Talasour]

Construct and put up a fake speed camera like Mr. Knockin. LINK

That's brilliant.

 

[Nasher]

speed cameras are a loss maker. they cost money. government is too busy paying MP's ridiculous wages and back handers, etc.

as soon as the camera goes up all that will happen is they slow down for the camera then boot it when they are past it.

you could just forget about it. it's not something i would worry about.

Plus the camera often gets trashed within the first month.

I have a friend who lived right opposite one in a rural area, which was on a long straight. Every week there was a council worker out there scrubbing something off the lens lol.

A village on my commute had 3 average speed cameras installed at the cost of about 2 million. A few months later it appeared that someone came along with an angle grinder, cut one down and stole it.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Plus the camera often gets trashed within the first month.

I have a friend who lived right opposite one in a rural area, which was on a long straight. Every week there was a council worker out there scrubbing something off the lens lol.

A village on my commute had 3 average speed cameras installed at the cost of about 2 million. A few months later it appeared that someone came along with an angle grinder, cut one down and stole it.

speed bumps are even worse. all it does is make you wear your suspension and brakes out. especially if you own a car with a low down bodykit or is lowered or low down itself.

you see some people just fly over them and you hear a clunk and scrape every time someone drives past.