Average Speed Cameras true or false?


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OK they have been around for years now but has anyone, anyone been fined and given points for travelling too fast in an average speed camera restriction.

Please post a comment if you have - it's just that yep we have either ourselves or we know someone that has been caught and prosecuted by fixed speed cameras or mobile speed cameras but I have never come across anyone who has been done by an average speed camera.

I really must check with the two people I know who talk to the most drivers - Tim Arnott our mobile valet guy or John Enticott our mobile mechanic as someone must know someone.

The reason for my curiosity is sparked by the inordinate lengths of 40 or 50 mph average restricted stretches such as the enormous ones currently on the M25.  They are so frustrating and so difficult to comply with at times and you drive erratically in fear to try and recover if you have gone over. 

Also, when a new camera appears for a slip road for example is the average taken for your car for the small distance since the last camera or since you joined the original camera at the beginning of the resticted area.

Information or guidance would be greatly appreciated.  Please ask around and see if you can find some unfortunate devil that has been prosecuted or are the cameras merely an elaborate way to make people drive more slowly......answers on a postcard.


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Adam B 10 November 2009
Your query is seriously misguided. Your concern should not be about whether or not the cameras are real, but with the reason for their presence. Cameras are put in place for a reason. The average cameras are very often there to protect workers on the roads. Others are in place due to accident black spots. Someone like yourself might see an accident as just an inconvenience, but any compassionate human being will see that accidents on the roads mean that people are DYING. The cameras are there to slow you down and PREVENT DEATHS. No human being has the right to terrorise his fellow citizens. If you want to drive fast, go to a racing track. This kind of misguided blog only reinforces the reactionary views of the misinformed. report abuse...
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