If this does actually happen, then every single clean, safe driver in the UK will sooner or later get tickets and points, and a massive number will get the 12 point ban.
How can this be right?
If you've proven your safety record as a capable driver, why should you suddenly get persecuted because of a change in the law which is thinly veiled as 'road safety', but is so obviously nothing more than a massive cash cow?
If I can be a little immodest for the sake of making the point...I've driven all over the UK, all over Western Europe, and several times in the USA and Caribbean.
In nearly 30 years of driving, I have covered many hundreds of thousands of miles in many different vehicles. In all that time I have never (with the exception of one very minor nudge in 1985) had an accident. (He says whilst furiously touching wood
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I have also never had a ticket for any driving offense. Yep, I know I've been lucky...or maybe that should read 'careful'?
I just know that this fearsome totalitarian national 'average' speed camera network will catch me out and prosecute me for driving safely. After 30 years of blemish-free motoring, I'll end up lots more quid out of pocket and in the dock.
Once again this gov't of 'dumb-down Britain' wins out. Make it understandable for the most stupid and then everybody else has to live by it.
And how many more accidents will we see due to drivers losing concentration at monotonous slow speeds?
Anybody who supports these measures is either a non-driver (and therefore whose opinion should be ignored) or a very inexperienced driver who has not yet learned the practical rules of the road.
Training and experience, NOT prosecution, is the only genuine way forward in road safety.
I desperately hope we get a general election before this becomes law.
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