speeding

  • ARJ's Avatar
    How do I try and get speed monitoring on my road. It’s a 40mph road but most cars and motor bikes exceed this and some do 60mph plus.
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  • TC1474's Avatar
    Since deregulation speeding is now mainly dealt with by the local authorities (whereas it used t be all handled by the Police)

    You can write to your local Highways and explain your concerns and at the same time send a copy to your local Roads Policing unit (via your local forces website where there should be an email address).

    Whether anything gets done is very dependent on history for that road.

    Is there a history of excess speed?
    What has been the crash rate on that section of road?
    How many other complaints have there been?

    Along with a whole load of other issues the decision may then be made to carry out what is called an 85 percentile check (I won't go into technical's ) but the speed of all vehicles is measured over 2 or 3 days and the average speed is determined.

    We used to have full time speed enforcement and traffic management, but again because of cutbacks, no more, so you may be banging your head against a brick wall, but you can make the complaint and ask the question.