I regularly drive along the route. As you would expect in Wiltshire, it's a rural route. It's a pleasant section of road with widely spaced junctions and noticeably less traffic than the London - Reading end of the M4.
Speed Cameras on the M4 5382MJP will motorway the caused by doing they are motorway in modern I think the problem is that a lot of the excessive speeders are the ones who drive like idiots anyway. I've...
This has arisen because they let morons make the rules. As I've said before, not taking account of the volume of traffic is nonsensical. So there spending time and effort on a motorway which would be better spent on more dangerous urban roads.
EuroRap says that the M4 J15 - J17 has a low accident rate ie 0 - 15 bane and serious accidents per billion vehicle kilometres.
In any case, M4 J15 - J17 is 19 miles.
The mobile camera siting guidelines state that at least 2 KSI per Km in the last 3 calendar years should have happened. This obviously has not happened over the whole length -
Speed Cameras on the M4 5383Define 'excessive'. I can drive at 90mph and it's a perfectly safe speed, no tailgating, no weaving, no MLOC. Then they should be pulled, but it's not something which...
"The Wiltshire partnership, which includes the police and the county council, will argue tomorrow that the casualty rate on the M4 is higher than on the average motorway and meets the level required by the department. There were 18 rests, 68 plus 1 serious injuries and 641 slight injuries between junctions 15 and 17 between 2001 and 2004."
The siting guidelines are here
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