Is Your Speed Ticket Legal?

It seems like a Nottingham Councillor is stating that it is alright to break the law to catch someone breaking the law. This is the same attitude we have witnessed in relation to local authorities using illegal signs to enforce parking restriction.
'Good enough, nearly, and no-one should be misled' is simply not acceptable for signing. The law is strict and pedantic for obvious reason ... so there can be clarity and no ambiguity. Local authorities have no excuse for getting it wrong.

Richard Bentley states:
" If Councillor Barber cares to read my website then he will find that I stand for honesty, integrity and the full application of English law, not the systematic abuse by authorities who seem to think that they are above government and statute. No-one, especially local authorities, can consider themselves above the law."

Click here for an example of exactly how potentially dangerous wrong signing can be when a council places a Loading Bay inside a pedestrian crossing's zig zags inciting motorists to commit an endorseable offence and obscure motorists and pedestrian's vision. Who would be responsible for a child getting knocked down here?

Who is breaking the law then?

IS YOUR SPEED TICKET LEGAL?
JON ROBINSON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT
25 February 2008

Thousands of motorists in Notts have been wrongly convicted of speeding.

That's the view of an expert who says many of our road signs are not lawful. Richard Bentley said Nottingham was a "disaster zone" for signing.

Mr Bentley, a traffic signs consultant and expert court witness, said police and highways chiefs were aware of the problems but still prosecuted.

A damning dossier of evidence seen by the Evening Post includes:

• An unenforceable 40mph limit on the A6514 ring road.


• A type of 30mph speed sign that was supposed to be decommissioned in 1972.


• Signs telling drivers they can travel at 60mph in a 30mph zone.


• A sign telling cyclists to break the law by riding up a one-way street.

A High Court appeal has been lodged that could see thousands of people overturning convictions for breaking a 30mph limit on the A610.

Mr Bentley said: "By not having the right signs people are losing their jobs, their homes and their marriages, when an Act of Parliament prohibits them from having a conviction if the signing is wrong."

The city highways authority and police say any signs which are proven illegal will be changed, but will continue to enforce them until then

Check out Richard Bentley's Site here

This is how you can avoid a speeding ticket ...

... but not everyone can pass the 'driving' test.

Two British traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved in an unusual incident while checking for speeding motorists on the A1 Great North Road . One of the officers used a hand-held radar device to check the speed of a vehicle approaching over the crest of a hill, and was surprised when the speed was recorded at over 300 mph.

Their radar suddenly stopped working and the officers were not able to reset it.

Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado fighter jet which was engaged in a low-flying exercise over the Border district, approaching from the North Sea .

Back at police headquarters the chief constable fired off a stiff complaint to the RAF Liaison office.

Back came the reply in true laconic RAF style:

"Thank you for your message, which allows us to complete the file on this incident.

You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Tornado had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked onto, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it.

Furthermore, an air-to-ground missile aboard the fully-armed aircraft had also automatically locked onto your equipment.

Fortunately the pilot flying the Tornado recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile systems alert status, and was able to override the automated defence system before the missile was launched and your hostile radar installation was destroyed.

Good Day..."

Did it happen or is it an urban myth?