Speed Cameras and Speed Limits Reviews

Speed cameras and speeding - the largest argument since drink driving. So to jump straight in, here's my problem - speed by itself doesn't kill. Inappropriate speed for the road or conditions, does. If I'm going past a school at letting out time, even the 20MPH isn't always safe - because often children have very little road ...  Read the complete review

Yes! Speed limits are essential to guide us and stop crazy drivers going way to fast. However there are many places where the speeds are incorrect, slow speed limits when theres no reason to be and high speed limits when there should be a lower limit. There is nothing beneficiary about speed cameras. I strongle beleive they ...  Read the complete review

I personally am not a driver so some may think that I have no right to this review but i am going to express my opinion anyway. I do spend a lot of time in the car with my partner so lately am very aware of what speeds he is doing and a lot of the time find myself saying to him that he is going too fast, even if he is only 1mph over ...  Read the complete review

I think that speed cameras and speed limits are essential. However, I think they are often in the wrong places. There's a steep hill where I live and the number of people who get caught for doing 35 in a 30 zone just because it's on a very steep hill and breaking doesnt actually really help much is rather ...  Read the complete review

Speed cameras are a necessary evil but I don't believe they are effective in catching bad drivers. I have 6 points on my licence and about to get another 3 but that's not the reason I'm against them. I'm against them because they are not flexible enough. They do not adapt to the ever changing road ...  Read the complete review

I do not think speed cameras work but i do like speed limits! I am a 21 year old male and been driving for four year. I havent been caught speeding as generally i dont speed but if i was and i saw a camera i would slow down go through it at the correct speed then pick my speed up again. What does that do? It does nothing to bring the ...  Read the complete review

I've never had a problem with speed limits and speed cameras generally. In fact I don't think I've ever been caught speeding. But I heard on the news that they are going to be introducing a new speed limit of 50 mph on rural roads! I frequently drive across open moorland roads with long straight sections and not a sole on the road. If ...  Read the complete review

Speed Cameras. Two words that spark an emotional response in any driver on the road. Should we have more, should we have less? Unfortunately, no matter what we do to our roads there will still be accidents. There are just too many variables to consider, too many types of vehicles on the road, too much unpredictability from ...  Read the complete review

"I feel the need....The need for speed". The iconic phrase said by Maverick (Played by Tom Cruise) to Goose, his co-pilot in the 1980s legendary film, Top Gun. However, is this bravado required in everyday life? Speed is the largest contributor to road incidents, injuries and deaths. Fact. Increased speed requires ...  Read the complete review

Let me start by saying I don't have a problem with speed cameras. I think in certain circumstances they serve a purpose but I do think that purpose may have been overtaken by financial income. Where I live there are hoardes of them. My father can't get over it when he comes to visit and he lives just outside London but doesn't have ...  Read the complete review

Ok, im going to be controversial here and state that i dont have a problem with speed cameras, infact i think there should be more of them. Ask yourself, what is a speed camera doing? It is checking if you are breaking the law. The arguement against speed cameras is the same as saying i think there should be less police ...  Read the complete review

Are speed cameras really there to reduce speed therefore reducing the number of accidents? NO. Speed camera's are there to make them some more dosh. There are so many more people being caught "speeding" by a few miles an hour over the speed limit than muggers are caught. Did you know that? Well, ...  Read the complete review

I'm gonna add my opinions to this debate I think that all speed cameras should be taken out of service. Why? Because I don't think they have anything to do with road safety at all as all drivers will check their speedometer regardless of whether they're over the speed limit to make sure they're not exceeding it - taking ...  Read the complete review

In Northamptonshire we have 42 cameras, but five have been secretly turned off this week after the government cut the funding for the camera partnership by one million pounds, more than Oxfordshire county council's forced £750,000 cut which resulted in all of theirs turned off. Northamptonshire refused to say which five are no longer ...  Read the complete review

Right I've being doing some research into speed cameras. More specifically into how they work. Apparently its simple, they photograph u twice if u get to the second photo point too fast then it can work out you're speeding. I'm sure most of you knew that already though. What you'll probably be more interested in is how to beat them. Here ...  Read the complete review

Like it or not, most accidents are caused by people driving without due care and attention. When I am driving about there are people who's driving is so erratic you wonder how they manage to get away without causing an accident. Some people dont stop at junctions and cause the person who has already come out to have to slow down, or in ...  Read the complete review

Only 4% of deaths on British roads are caused by speeding. Yet you will find speed cameras in every village, town and city. In 2003, 140 million was raised from speed fines generated by speed cameras. Eight years ago 4500 cameras were on the road and 1 million speed convictions. Three years ago 6000 cameras ...  Read the complete review

Speed cameras are there to make money. I can't remember the location of the camera. I read on the BBC site. One camera generated 1.5 million by handing out 30 thousand tickets in three years. I read on another site that cameras save 1500 lives a year. Same site had information from one of the MP reports which suggested that ...  Read the complete review

i think my opinion of speed cameral is the same as thousands of others, that they are a pain in the arse and cause people to drive even slower than the actual speed limit through fear of being caught. for my the fine wouldnt bother me so much as the points on my licence i am classed as a young driver, being under 21. and so my ...  Read the complete review

How could speed cameras be unfair should be the question. The area around my school always has people speeding around, especially at lunchtimes etc. when there are more people around to see the drivers speeding - which is why they do it, they want attention. I think we need more speed cameras, especially in busier areas, only ...  Read the complete review