Safe Speed Forums

After seeing a post on Pistonheads, I thought people should be made aware of this (bottom of page 3).

Doubt it'll be an exciting play. Of course I'm still waiting for the proof that cameras do reduce casualties on the roads

And what does it say on page one:

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Useless laws weaken necessary laws.

of course they did. As long as they did what they were told they could do whatever they wanted.


I'm sure that research was totally unbiased. I wonder if they gave them a link to this site?


what a brilliant idea. We can't convince anybody who has a clue so let's ask people who never driven what they think about speed cameras.

Ahh, the brainwashing of the young.

In my early days, it was smoking and drinking (late 80s) then in the early 90s it was acid rain and the ozone layer (hell I remember Blue Peter openly supporting the Green Party after the results from their mock general election came in and old Labour won). Now it's car drivers are all evil.

I remember a few years back, en route to the local chippy by car, I turned left onto a minor road, and a kid on a bike came to a gentle stop about 2 metres from the rightmost curb of the minor road (ie. he had been coming towards me before I turned) and waited for me to be out of the way before continuing. I then made an immediate right turn onto the service road that runs parallel to the main road and parked outside the chippy.

FWIW, I had seen the kid and concluded that even if he were to make no effort to stop, I would be clear of the junction before he reached the road. Even if he were to improbably turn into little baby superman and peddle that gearless BMX bike at inhuman speeds, the worst that would have happened is he would have driven into my rear quarter section.

Now presumably at some point during my initial left turn, my front bumper, the kid and the chippy window must have been in alignment because I walked in to a pair of 11 year old girls accusing me of nearly killing the kid, despite there being half a lane and 2 metres of pavement between me and him. Cars are evil.

Christ this is sick and twisted.

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When I was at school we had a particularly leftie-hippy english teacher who used to set us writing stories about fox-hunting, battery farming and whatever else she was against at the time.

I made a point of putting the opposing view across and was on occasion punished for doing so. My opinions were apparently wrong. I had a flick through a load of old exercise books from back then a while back, and couldn't believe how openly biased some of it was.

So fatalities up by 35%.
With cars still presumably improving safety and road engineering still improving this is a massive rise.
If you believe that cameras work and therefore lives have been saved at camera sites, the fatalities outwith these "safe zones" must have increased astronomically. 50%? 100%?
Nonsense of course, cameras don't work, the evidence is building but some just can't or wont see it.

A Play about speed cameras

The Day my life ended!

Scene One

Picture a nice family living in a reasonable sized house in the country! Mum, Dad. Son about 11 Sister of 8 and another about 4. Dad is a service engineer for an IT company Drives 35,000 mile/year.

Then the letters start arriving! Dad is pinged 6 times over a 2-week period on a section of urban DC that he has driven on for years without issue. However LA has recently dropped the to a by simply removing the lollypops but not doing anything else to inform the public (apart from the obligatory 3 line, small print, announcement on page 14 of the local free paper!)

Mum cries a lot!

Scene two!

A short time later!

Dad doesn’t go to work anymore! The family doesn’t go shopping any more. Food arrives in the “Occado” van but it is all in white packets (The budget range) and mostly tastes of cardboard.

The Family holiday is cancelled!

The central heating is switched off, as are most of the lights! With winter approaching it is getting really rather cold!

Mum and Dad get on each other’s nerves a lot. Neither Mum nor Dad can work since Mum never learned to drive, Dad can’t and there is no public transport in this part of the country.

Scene three!

Dad has nervous breakdown and commits suicide!

House is repossessed by building society

Scene three (alternative)

Dad manages to find a job locally that will pay the bills! Things are looking up at last. In fact he is adjusting to the idea of a slower paced life and is even looking forward to it. Cycling the 8 miles each way to work and back each day should do wonders for his health not to mention his waistline!

Unfortunately; Dad hasn’t cycled since he was a child (and he wasn’t very good then) Two weeks later he is stuck and killed by a lorry!

House is repossessed by building society!


Scene four!

Mum, Son and both sisters now live in squalid bed-sitter above a crack house. Mum cries a lot, drinks cheep Gin and smells bad!

The older sister has been groped by the spooky guy living next door and somebody was shot just outside the house last week!

You never see a Policeman. Mum (during brief moments of sobriety) explains that this is because they are too busy dealing with more important issues, such as speeding motorists!

Scene five

The Son, by now 13, hates Policemen with a vengeance and is becoming increasingly familiar with the “manager” of the crack house!

He really likes his new Desert Eagle!!!

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"The road to a police state is paved with public safety legislation"

Possibly I shouldnt find that funny but I do, oh well