Speed Cameras on the M4 N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV 5380

I travel along that motorway, and indeed that section of motorway "quite a bit." I also work in both control rooms for that Area, Wiltshire and Thames Valley.

Since I do the route often three or four times in a day travelling between the two control offices I see the motorway under most conditions at all times of day and night. I've seen many accidents.

However I'm not at all convinced that speed was the cause of any of them, because along that route I generally see some of the most f***witted driving I have ever seen anywhere. I don't know if it is the long section with no junctions (hence bored motorists) or simply that the motorway is very poorly patrolled by traffic officers (when I witnessed a bane accident and had to give a statement about it, it caused major chaos for Wiltshire plod, they only had two cars to deal with the M4 and couldn't spare the relevant officer to take a statement).

I also note that the slimey camera pratnership doesn't actually have the guts to install permanent cameras on the motorway, instead they are using the overbridges to site vans. These overbridges are actually marked with warnings not to park on the bridge because they are too narrow for two way traffic and a parked vehicle.

I wonder why the "safety camera" fools are allowed to breach these rules?

Anyway, none of this would have helped with today's f***wit, thanks to whom I have a cracked windscreen. He entered the M25 and did the usual dive from the entry slip to lane 3 all at about 70mph. Unfortunately he didn't use his mirrors at all. I was overtaking a car at the time and I had to brake like hell to avoid the prat sideswiping my car. I saw him coming and sounded the horn - bad move on my part because he "lost it", took his hands off the steering wheel, turned around in the seat (I'm not kidding) and leered at me through the back window. Then he drove out of lane 3 onto the central reservation three times driving over the crushed stone and throwing it up from his back wheels. Third attempt he managed to throw a rock high enough to crack my windscreen then he sodded off.

He also damaged three other vehicles.

The word "****" doesn't do justice to him. Of course none of this was captured on camera (phoned the control office hoping but they didn't see it) and even if there had been a speed camera he was inside the speed limit until he clogged it. With speed cameras I suspect he wouldn't have tried to speed away.

-- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759