OT Points and insurance

I still have a few days to go then. Oh bother!

Judith

Thats true enough you could get a ban just driving the A523 Rushton Spencer through to Leek. Not a big fan of gatso's tho the nutters know where they are and slow down to pass then speed up IMO at least on motorway road works the average speed cameras do the job and protect the lads doing the work. Derek

Pardon my Antipodean ignorance, but what's a gatso?

Karen

It's a speed camera that gets over used in some parts of the UK. Gatsometer, it was developed by a motorsport driver can you believe!

Nige

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Thanks. We have a few red light cameras here in Brisbane, but in this state at least, very few speed cameras, the local plods use white vans or 4x4 conspicuously parked at manned locations, which the local radio stations tend to advertise, in typical Aussie fashion. But they still do good business ...

Karen

...and Nige spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...

... called Maurice Gatsonides, a Dutch rally driver. IIRC, he invented the "Gatsometer" as a way of checking his own speeds in the absence of better ways of getting split-second timing. (The best method at the time was two rubber tubes laid across the road with a crude timing device to work out average speed.) He and his family started producing the devices as a cottage industry, and then ...

I don't know quite whether to applaud his initiative and commercial aptitude, or curse the b*****d to hell and back.

They do that everywhere. Some people do it if they see the painted marks on the road. Nearly shunted someone who did that in lane 3 of a motorway, the road markings where "left over" from a temporary camera at some roadworks that had finished the week before.

Quite agree, it is *very* noticeable that people take much more care of their speed in average speed camera areas.

M11 being a case in point atm, no-one over 40, most 38, not a worker in sight (or site).

AJH

Sfunny you should be talking about Liverpool, you telling me there is a fifty limit on the motorway there, before I broke down yet again I was shifting sommat like 65 in that vicinity.