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Re: Road Traffic Act
What I would be nclined to do is review all speed limits. There will always be bad drivers, and there will always be people speeding... no amount of cameras will ever change that. What I would like to see is:
1) If people cause an accident and speed is a factor, throw the book at them
2) If people drive whilst drunk and/or banned, ban them for life and/or imprison them
3) If people cause a death from reckless diving or speeding, charge them with murder.
Deterrents need to be more than a £60 fine. That is no punishment, just as driving at 3mph above the limit is no crime. The problem in this country is that a driver caught at 35mph is treated as harshly, or more so, than people guilty of much worse offences. The punishment may not be the same, but the resources used to catch them is disproportionate to the severity of the crime. AT the end of the day we motorists are a soft target, and the police have targets to reach. That, my friends, is the WRONG approach to policing.
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