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gatso van on christmas day,

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    #32
    STIG83
    Registered Users Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭STIG83


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Sick attack up the country earlier on today. Brother was working this morning but came down for dinner. Some seriously sick people around bud

    What happened?


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    #33
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Its obvious the man working in the van on Christmas day was only doing it for the extra pay and not to spoil the motorist.


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    #34
    maxer68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭maxer68


    Roanmore wrote: »
    Don't want to get in to the whole issue of speed vans but you said they're a measure to catch bad driving, what's more dangerous (see below)? Speed vans will only catch one part of bad driving.

    1. somebody driving at 110 kph on a straight road overtaking nobody, nobody ahead of them.

    2. Somebody travelling in the middle of a non primary road at 70 kph (limit 80 kph) and meets an oncoming car.

    3. somebody overtaking a slow moving car on a bend but only doing about 80 kph.

    Speed vans will only catch one, the guy doing the least dangerous driving.


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    Speed is just one of the reasons we used to have one of the worst injury & death rates on our roads. By having the cameras, traffic crp can deal with the other poor driving. The ANPR system in traffic corps cars deals with non insurance / non tax at a rate of 5 cars a second.

    Efficiency of traffic corp is at an all time high, deathas and injuries are at an all time low and car insurance is also at an all time low (€320 fully comp on 3.0l jeep this year! - for fun I got a UK quote using old Uk address and got quoted £535 on exact same basis!)

    So all in all, I think combo of cameras, new technology and a better focused traffic corp have together made roads safer and insurance cheaper


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    #35
    dark_shadow
    Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭dark_shadow


    maxer68 wrote: »
    Speed is just one of the reasons we used to have one of the worst injury & death rates on our roads. By having the cameras, traffic crp can deal with the other poor driving. The ANPR system in traffic corps cars deals with non insurance / non tax at a rate of 5 cars a second.

    Efficiency of traffic corp is at an all time high, deathas and injuries are at an all time low and car insurance is also at an all time low (€320 fully comp on 3.0l jeep this year! - for fun I got a UK quote using old Uk address and got quoted £535 on exact same basis!)

    So all in all, I think combo of cameras, new technology and a better focused traffic corp have together made roads safer and insurance cheaper

    Here's hoping anyway. It would be great if that was the case!!


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