Daily Mail, September 25, 2003
A Police Constable avoided a speeding conviction yesterday by invoking a little known law that allows officers to ignore speed limits even if there is no emergency. Stephen Burgess sucessfully argued that officers on duty were exempt from the law at all times - not just when using their sirens and flashing lights on 999 calls.
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Daily Mail, September 17, 2003
An extra 1,000 speed cameras were placed on the roads last year, figures reveal today. The total number of units now stands at over 5,000, with some areas seeing an increase of 60% |
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Daily Mail, August 15, 2003
Speed cameras on a two-mile stretch of road have netted almost £6million in fines since being set up nearly 3 years ago. More than 98,000 drivers have been caught by 26 pairs of new generation digital cameras along Nottingham's A610 and on its A6514 ring road. |
Daily Mail, July 28, 2003
Drivers fined for speeding or parking offences are being threatened with a new stealth tax to fund Britains burgeoning compensation culture. They will have to pay an extra £35 on top of fixed penalty charges, and the money will go to the victims of crime under a scheme being proposed by David Blunkett. The Home Secretary's plan, approved by the Chancellor, will mean forking out £95 instead of the current £60. |
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Daily Mail, March 21, 2003
"A promise to stop using hidden speed cameras to trap motorists was abandoned yesterday. The Government had pledged that speed cameras would be painted bright yellow and positioned so that they could be seen by drivers. But yesterday the Department of Transport back-tracked under threat of legal action from pressure groups." |
Daily Express, January 2, 2003
"...many of the reduced limits are not accompanied by new signs, resulting in a wave of fines and penalty points for drivers"
"...local authorities, which are responsible for setting speed limits in urban areas, are not required to display signs when speeds are cut from 40 to 30 miles an hour. The Highway Code states that on roads where there are lamp posts the limit is 30 unless otherwise stated." |
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Daily Mail, November 8, 2002
"The machines - recently installed along the A657 in Bradford at a cost of up to £400,000 - are thought to make it the most intensively monitored road in Britain." |
Daily Mail, October 29, 2002
"The number of drivers punished for speeding will double over a single year, motoring organisations warned yesterday." |
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Sunday Express, October 20, 2002
"The new public relations gurus, each earning around £25,000 a year, are responsible for re-branding the Gatso camera now officially referred to as a 'Safety Camera'."
"...Department of Transport guidelines restricting speed cameras to accident blackspots are commonly flouted. Department of Transport rules state they can only be sited on roads where at least four people have been killed or seriously injured in the previous three years." |
Daily Mail, October 29, 2002
"Critics have warned that the Government's policy risks criminalising a huge tranche of respectible drivers who have never had any problems with the law, but who may inadvertently break the speed limit by as little as four or five miles per hour."
"The Government wants to achieve three million speeding fines a year, which will equate to a speeding fine for one in ten drivers every year." |
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Daily Mail, August 2002
"..the safest roads have four times as many speed cameras than the most dangerous. The study by Autocar magazine found 33% more cameras on the UKs safest roads than on the 50 most dangerous."
"The study comes three months after another one revealing that the 200 most dangerous roads had a total of only six speed cameras." |
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