Speed camera detectors in france

I have an Inforad v4e Speed camera warning device. The AA website states that any form of radar detector is totally illegal in France. The Inforad is, in my opinion, simply a GPS unit with camera locations...

Where does the money from speed cameras go?

I have recently been dunned for £60 for speeding by an unmanned camera, all, apparently, in the interests of road safety. This raises the question of who audits the money? I feel that it merely goes to...

Was a lorry driver exonerated in court for warning oncoming drivers of a speed trap?

Many years ago I believe you ran a item in your pages concerning a lorry driver being found guilty by police for warning drivers of a speed check/trap, but on appeal to the law lords he was exonerated....

Trappist flunks

According to a report in your column on 5th August 2006 there was a Law Lords decision that it was not an offence for a motorist to warn others of a speed trap. Yet we read that magistrates are still fining...

Why are drivers given no quarter for minor offences when civil servants are often let off?

I got a ticket for being caught in a bus lane in London, because I stopped to let an ambulance with its siren on pass, accompanied by a police escort. I am appealing. Did you happen to read of the policeman...

Why don't drivers who complain about tailgaters just let other traffic pass them?

Reading the survey about top 10 motorists' complaints, the one that amazed me was that 70 per cent of people disliked having someone following too closely behind. I had always assumed these people never...

Can cars travelling in the opposite direction set off speed cameras?

I keep getting flashed by speed cameras on the same stretch of road when I know I am under the limit. Could something else, such as cars going in the opposite direction, be setting them off? I've travelled...

Why are councils abandoning the use of speed cameras?

If speed cameras are such a milch cow for local councils, how come many councils in East Anglia are now abandoning them completely and will this not result in less safe roads?

Fine answer

Lots of arrogant persistent lawbreakers (speeders) often complain that speed cameras are a revenue stream for the government. With our huge deficit needing paying back somehow, I'd far rather see these...

Can a mobile speed camera accurately pick out one car from a line?

Can these accurately pick out one car in a line of cars? I was caught exceeding the speed limit when in a line of cars that had overtaken another vehicle on a straight stretch of road. The mobile unit...