“Sorry, but where did he mention a political party?
Mr B J Mann, Nottingham

Not Another closet Tory who thinks his party is the Government, surely!”

“Sorry, but where did he mention a political party?”

“Government policy is to cause traffic chaos, this is why they introduced a maximum speed limit for HGV's of 40MPH on single laned roads, and bus stops in the road, rather than in a lay-by. By products of this are longer journey times and people speeding to make up lost time, this gives the Government and local authorities an inroad to then introduce speed cameras to raise revenue, and in the longer term, introduce congestion charging...
so when the Tories get back in, they'll go round creating lay-bys every bus stop, the speed limit will be 60MPH, grid-lock will be free of charge, the journey-time to Accident and emergency will be second-to-none, standing traffic order will be restored, speed cameras will be redundant and Andyman will be satisfied...
GET REAL coz you go nowhere with this garbage!”

“Bethany / Andy: the real problem is that most UK registered vehicles are on the Police National Computer, this registers them to a company, individual, and an address. Checking these vehicles is easy, and a ticket may be issued, if the owner does not identify the driver, then another offence is committed. If the company cannot identify the driver, and the photograph cannot be clearly be seen to identify the driver, then the company can be fined for the offence/s.
Foreign lorries are not registered on the database, and Uk or European law is not applicable to many of these countries, therefore it costs more to enforce these offences, and with no return.

Language is not a problem, Police forces all issue their officers with mobile phones, they have contact with a language service which covers nearly all the worlds languages. Mobile phone, translation service; not really a problem is it.

Police have the option of detaining a foreign driver, but often force policy dictates that they do not, this is based on the good old cost grounds. They have to detain the driver, lock him up, give him a phone call, often to a foreign country, feed him, and escort hin to court the following day. In addition they have to have the lorry recovered and stored, and the cost of this all adds up.

It can be done, but costs so much that underfunded Police forces choose not to use this option.”

“Bethany
I have notified the police of bad driving by foreign truck drivers on the M40 motorway and have also been told they cannot do anything.( there are cameras on that stretch of road)
If it was a British driver you would guarantee that something was done by the police.
They cannot communicate with the foreign drivers and all the paperwork involved.”

“Gary, Attenborough: although i agree with what you have said, i must point out a few things to you and many others. Government policy is to cause traffic chaos, this is why they introduced a maximum speed limit for HGV's of 40MPH on single laned roads, and bus stops in the road, rather than in a lay-by. By products of this are longer journey times and people speeding to make up lost time, this gives the Government and local authorities an inroad to then introduce speed cameras to raise revenue, and in the longer term, introduce congestion charging. This gives them both static blockages and moving blockages, a traffic congestion pincer movement if you like.
Consequences of these actions were balanced as acceptable risks of accidents and injuries from accidents, note the terminology BALANCED RISK.

Clearly the Government accepted there was a risk to people from increases in traffic accidents, and was willing to accept them, therefore this was deliberate intent to cause accidents and injury. Thus allowing the introduction of speed cameras for revenue purposes, under a legitimate heading of increased traffic accidents.
Government did not allow for specific roads to have significant numbers of fatalities, the 453 being one of them, but when it occured, the onus was placed upon others.

We as drivers all need to be aware of these Government plans, how devious they really are, and what the implications really are to our own lives.”

“I cannot understand why the police do not stop and arrest the foreign drivers who cause so many accidents on the A453. Earlier in the week I had to swerve out of the way of a van with Polish number plates that was overtaking in an extremely risky way. I phoned the police with details of the number plate but they were not interested. Too many foreign vehicles are driven recklessly - look what happened to the family from North Wales on the M6 earlier this week. If there was more enforcement by the police on dangerous roads such as th eA453 it would make it a lot safer.”

“The reason why their are a lot of accidents on this stretch are the different maximum speeds on this road'
1 Cyclists
2 Hgv Vehicles 40mph
3 Cars/ motorcyclists 60mph
A lot of car drivers & motorcyclists take chances when they catch up hgv,s and decide to overtake when it is not safe to do so.
If all drivers were not in a rush to get between A-B ie allowed enough time for their journeys there might not be so many accidents.”

“Can all these foreign tick driver's delivering orange juice to nott's read the speed sign's?”

“All speed cameras should be thrown on a big bonfire, Its always the retired or people who have never drove, who want speed cameras. The real people hate them.”