barleycorn Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Agreed ,but there will always be someone who will claim his box made them crash ,and try to claim. He could just put a small round hole in one side and claim it's a bird box jb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 A Resident of a Nottinghamshire village has set up a "Fake" speed camera on his land at the side of a main road through his village ,where he claims motorists are travelling at speeds of up to 130 MPH on motorbikes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-16883058 The council say they cant make him remove it as its on his land ,but he could end up in court if someone has a smash after being distracted by the "Fake" camera. I don't believe that one bit. If that were true, surely a driver distracted by a real one and ending up in a smash could take the Safety Camera Partnership/Police/Council to court? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I don't believe that one bit. If that were true, surely a driver distracted by a real one and ending up in a smash could take the Safety Camera Partnership/Police/Council to court? In theory yes, but the court would dismiss any claim of being distracted by something which is allowed to be on the roadside and was officially placed there. They would not, necessarily, dismiss a claim of being distracted by something which has not been officially approved. They should, in my opinion - but my opinion is not law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 wasn't there another guy who did this and was told to remove it but got away with it because it was also a bird box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I don't believe that one bit. If that were true, surely a driver distracted by a real one and ending up in a smash could take the Safety Camera Partnership/Police/Council to court? neither do I as its over hanging public land from the look of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forumosaurus Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 According to the BBC, there has been no fatal accidents in his village for at least the past 11 years, so why don't they just raise the speed limit if everyone is going 60 anyway and not dying? Just seems a little odd that he'd want to put himself liable for blame for a crash in an area where nobody has died on the road in his village in over a decade anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CXC3000 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 A Resident of a Nottinghamshire village has set up a "Fake" speed camera on his land at the side of a main road through his village ,where he claims motorists are travelling at speeds of up to 130 MPH on motorbikes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-16883058 The council say they cant make him remove it as its on his land ,but he could end up in court if someone has a smash after being distracted by the "Fake" camera. So if the camera was real (and provided for by the Council), and someone had a crash, they (the Council) could also end up in court since the camera was a distraction ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 So if the camera was real (and provided for by the Council), and someone had a crash, they (the Council) could also end up in court since the camera was a distraction ? As I mentioned above, they could not lose the case. The legal precedent is, in a nutshell, that things which are authorised to be there cannot cause a distraction but things which are not authorised can do so. It's a patently ridiculous position - either yellow boxes can distract people or they can't. Nevertheless, the legal position is well established. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric_Collins Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I do the a614 and a616 daily and although some sections it's 50mph people don't. The thing is round there the policing is pathetic and in the 10 times a week for an hour a time I'm on them roads , I can count on 1 hand the amount of times I see a police car per year ( unless mopping up bodies from speeders which I've seen plenty of ). You are kinda getting in real rural roads here with very heavy farm traffic which acts almost like speed calming measures in itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 There's a lady in my neighborhood who paints the curb in front of her house with red paint. Does it stop people parking there? Sometimes. I think it's a waste of time and perfectly good red paint, but it makes her happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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