Eighty drivers a day caught in Dorset No Excuse campaign

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Permalink Reply by Liz on March 3, 2010 at 11:59

I'm reckoning 80 a day in my road, especially for mobile phone use and speeding.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on March 3, 2010 at 12:26

If you think a crime has been committed you need to document it in Matt's blog. Please practice memorising license plate numbers, this is a useful skill.

I would like to see a small additional post for each and every offence, even attempted offences and not just the salacious ones like speeding.

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Permalink Reply by John D on March 3, 2010 at 17:37

Can we include the three out of four buses that exceeded 30mph along Priory Road this morning ?

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on March 3, 2010 at 20:42

Great photo! You need a wide angle lens to get the registration details too.

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Permalink Reply by John D on March 3, 2010 at 23:38

I removed them as I'm not targetting individual drivers who are forced to speed in order to keep to unrealistic timetables imposed by the employer. If they do not meet the punctuality criteria, which take little account of traffic, roadworks, etc, they can have their wages docked.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on March 4, 2010 at 6:57

Proof of this outlandish claim?

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Permalink Reply by John D on March 4, 2010 at 9:29

Actually, you're right - doing 32 mph instead of 29 is going to save them about 5 seconds. They're probably rushing to give themselves more time to chat at the top of the hill. Next photos will have registration numbers :-)

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Permalink Reply by Louise Nazeraj on March 4, 2010 at 11:41

Apparently the law is about to or has just changed so that if you kill someone when you are speeding (even by just one mph), you will receive a mandatory jail sentence for manslaughter of at least one year. This is something that my brother in law was told by the police on the safe driving course he was sent on, to avoid having points for speeding put on his licence.

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Permalink Reply by Joanna Bornat on March 4, 2010 at 9:22

I'd like to see more action on parking - corner parking being a pre-occupation of mine. It endangers pedestrians especially children, obstructs wheelchair use and is anyway illegal, with or without yellow lines.

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Permalink Reply by John D on March 4, 2010 at 9:40

Don't start me ! Of well, you have :-)

There are double yellows on the little stretch of Hampden Road outside the mosque but cars park there all the time, especially on Fridays. Apart from being illegal, they obstruct long low-loaders working out of the railway yard and this causes huge jams on Wightman.

I asked one of the Parking Wardens why these cars never got a ticket and she said they had been instructed by the Council not to enforce parking restrictions outside the mosque.

If this is true, why are the double yellows there ? It just gives the impression of one law for them and another for Daily Mail readers :-)

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Permalink Reply by Joanna Bornat on March 4, 2010 at 9:52

This sounds to me like something that you could take up with the mosque itself. It may be something people there are concerned about or need alerting to if they're not.

It's very general this corner parking thing. most drivers seem to think they've no option and as the police rarely give tickets for this offence to anyone, it's likely to persist.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on March 4, 2010 at 11:58

Apparently the Imam tells them not to park they way they do. Go figure.

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